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Tamiya Acrylic Primers
Posted by sonny on Friday, February 13, 2009 11:52 AM

Does Tamiya make bottled (grey) acrylic primer? Can't seem to find it on internet and we have no LHS in Roswell.I want to airbrush it onto my A-10 before painting. I found their spray primer in a can and a white brush on but nothing else. Should I just suck it up and use the spray can and forget about being so anal with the airbrush?This is my first time out on this thing and would really like to get it right.

 Thanks

Sonny

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Posted by Triarius on Friday, February 13, 2009 12:10 PM
Not per se. I use Tamiya Flat Sky Gray, XF-19.

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Posted by Phil_H on Friday, February 13, 2009 6:23 PM

 sonny wrote:
I found their spray primer in a can and a white brush on but nothing else.

Tamiya does have a grey version of the white brush-on Liquid Surface Primer, but it's not acrylic. The bottled LSP's (both grey and white types) are lacquer based priducts. These products may be thinned for airbrushing if required. I have found that these may be thinned and cleaned up with ethyl (denatured) alcohol.

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Posted by sonny on Saturday, February 14, 2009 3:38 PM

Thanks to Triarius and Phil H.

Sonny

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Posted by KJ200 on Saturday, February 21, 2009 3:46 AM

 Triarius wrote:
Not per se. I use Tamiya Flat Sky Gray, XF-19.

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

I find if you let it to set up over night it is pretty tough, and can evenbe polished to a sheen with polishing cloths.

Karl

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Posted by Centurion on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:42 AM

I'll back up Ross' comment on that Tamiya Flat Sky Gray, XF-19. As long as you give it time to dry it seems to stick really well. I actually just used this technique last weekend thanks to Ross' suggestions in another post.

As for Tamiya, I contacted them in regards to supplying us with an acrylic primer and they gave me the short answer as usual. And that is, "no we don't carry it and we don't plan on it." 

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