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What Primers for Vallejo Air and Vallejo?
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Posted: Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 04:31 AM UTC
I spray it using my Grex with a .3mm needle at 22-23psi. The first thing I primed was a tie fighter cockpit that had lots of surface detail to see if the detail was lost because the stuff is thick and you want to thin it but it says not to. It looked like the detail was flooded but within a couple of minutes it leveled out and the fine detail popped out. Was dry in 10 minutes or so. Ran some water thru my airbrush and it cleaned right up.
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Posted: Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 04:46 AM UTC

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I spray it using my Grex with a .3mm needle at 22-23psi. The first thing I primed was a tie fighter cockpit that had lots of surface detail to see if the detail was lost because the stuff is thick and you want to thin it but it says not to. It looked like the detail was flooded but within a couple of minutes it leveled out and the fine detail popped out. Was dry in 10 minutes or so. Ran some water thru my airbrush and it cleaned right up.


I also use a 0.3 mm needle on an iwata eclipse. I run 40 psig (30 at the nozzle) for the primer and it goes on smoothly and “wispy” like paint. It should not be flooding the surface.

I rinse 1-2 times with windex (needs to have ammonia) and then rinse the windex out with water quickly.
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Posted: Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 05:11 AM UTC

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I spray it using my Grex with a .3mm needle at 22-23psi. The first thing I primed was a tie fighter cockpit that had lots of surface detail to see if the detail was lost because the stuff is thick and you want to thin it but it says not to. It looked like the detail was flooded but within a couple of minutes it leveled out and the fine detail popped out. Was dry in 10 minutes or so. Ran some water thru my airbrush and it cleaned right up.


I also use a 0.3 mm needle on an iwata eclipse. I run 40 psig (30 at the nozzle) for the primer and it goes on smoothly and “wispy” like paint. It should not be flooding the surface.

I rinse 1-2 times with windex (needs to have ammonia) and then rinse the windex out with water quickly.


I know it's not supposed to flood the surface but I was watching a number of vids showing the self leveling ability so I shot it below the recommended psi to flood the fine detail which was a fine waffle pattern and instrument detailing. And it didn't run or drip and flattened right out with a nice matte texture. It levels so well that it's not good at hiding heavy scratches like those you sometimes get with sanding.
But it covers very well and dries pretty quick.
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