{"id":653,"date":"2013-07-13T07:02:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T07:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/?p=653"},"modified":"2013-07-13T07:02:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T07:02:43","slug":"army-painters-color-primer-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Army Painter’s Color Primer Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently got a buttload of 15mm Sci-Fi minis from the Critical Mass Games Kickstarter<\/a>. \u00a0I need to paint them, so I can have a full company vs. company to try out Quadrant 13<\/a>. \u00a0I looked into how to speed up the painting process, and I came across The Army Painter’s Color Primer<\/a>. \u00a0They spell it “colour” but they are wrong. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I use Army Painter’s washes – Strong Tone and Dark Tone, and I like them a lot better than the Citadel washes I had used previously, so I was already feeling positive toward the company.<\/p>\n

The genius thing that Army Painter has done here is that they have a “100% match” regular paint for each color primer. \u00a0So you can, in theory, spray your minis with the colored primer, paint the other colors, then touch up with the 100% match paint.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I wanted to try it out before I sprayed it all over my CMG minis, so I tried it on Kurasan’s “Terror Of Clambake Beach<\/a>.” \u00a0These were perfect, because they are mostly one color.<\/p>\n

\"raw_terror\"<\/a> \"cleaned_terror\"<\/a>\u00a0The Clambake Beach minis before and after cleanup.<\/p>\n

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\"terror_primed\"<\/a>\u00a0After priming with “Ultramarine Blue”. \u00a0In the back is the spray primer and the 100% match paint.<\/p>\n

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\"Khurasan_terror_of_clambake_beach_15mm_PLA-6\"<\/a>The completed minis. \u00a0I drybrushed a mix of the 100% match paint with a bit of Citadel’s Runefang Steel, then painted the eyes, mouth and teeth. \u00a0Of course I messed that up, so I had several touchups to do, and they blended perfectly.<\/p>\n

Then I washed with Army Painter’s Strong Tone mixed with acrylic medium to thin it. \u00a0Basing was done my standard way<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The color primer really sped the whole process up. \u00a0I’m a fan. \u00a0The 100% match paints really seal the deal. \u00a0I think this will save me about 25% time when I paint the 79 infantry from the CMG Kickstarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently got a buttload of 15mm Sci-Fi minis from the Critical Mass Games Kickstarter. \u00a0I need to paint them, so I can have a full company vs. company to try out Quadrant 13. \u00a0I looked into how to speed up the painting process, and I came across The Army Painter’s Color Primer. \u00a0They spell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44,46,14,41,13,26],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-fi-gound","tag-15mm","tag-army-painter","tag-basing","tag-cmg","tag-khurasan","tag-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}