Tamiya fine surface primer..

Huh, their website has zero information on it. The other Tamiya rattle cans are synthetic lacquer, so I suppose one could extrapolate that it's lacquer based. I'll try to get to my LHS  today and see if they have a can in stock.

edit LHS is out of stock, expecting shipment Wednesday. Will confirm ASAP /edit

I haven't used the rattle-can version, but I can tell you that Tamiya's "Liquid Surface Primer" in the jar is lacquer based. It's actually very similar to the finer grades of Mr Surfacer. I would assume that the canned version is also lacquer based.

What is the product # ?

It seems that Tamiya's spray cans are a "synthetic lacquer" and most likely so would be the primer.

Just to continue an older thread I came in just to look this up. I just shot some "Tamiya  Fine Surface Primer White (L)" [what's the L for ?] and it seems to be a synthetic lacquer not much different than the Duplicolor that I use all the time on my figures. It went on very smoothly and dried quickly. First coat was a bit dusty, second coat smoothed that right out.

I will try to polish it out with 000 steel wool on the areas that will be armor and flesh. BTW this is going over my Rathalos Armor Hunter figure, previously primed in Duplicolor light grey sandable primer already rubbed down with 000 steel wool.

I plan to finish with Alclad and acrylics.

David