Painting Resin Parts

Good advice guys, thanks. I'm slowly getting into the priming arena as well. I always prime the ourside of stuff, and sometimes other "Big" areas, but I never prime small detail areas. I have to admit it definitely makes defects that need to be cleaned up show up better.

Good advice guys, thanks. I'm slowly getting into the priming arena as well. I always prime the ourside of stuff, and sometimes other "Big" areas, but I never prime small detail areas. I have to admit it definitely makes defects that need to be cleaned up show up better.

I always wash them in warm water with dish soap and then prime the resin parts, there always seem to be little pin holes somewhere that need to be filled.

My suggestion is to prime EVERYTHING except the clear parts.

IMHO, 90% of the painting problems like paint lifting, paints not adhreing, incompatability betwen paints and so on can be AVOIDED by priming a Kit and laying down clear coats between paint layers.

I also used to skip the priming phase, till I started on Resin, Vinyl Kits and multimedia kits there I learned the hard way that you should always prime your kits.
Since I started doing this on my plastic models too, the quality of my finishes has improved greatly.

Good enough. Having never used them before I wasn't real sure whether they needed to be treated differently. Thanks for the help.

I've not primed any of the resin parts that I've used ... but one thing you will want to do is give them a good washing with a little warm water and dish soap to remove any release agents. Then just paint them like anything else.