TAMIYAGray Fine Surface Primer L, 180ml Spray Can

I ordered this primer for a nice fine grey color for customizing a couple of wing gundam zero model kits, the seller shipped me white instead of grey but that's fine. I purchased and used this product a while back to paint an rg wing gundam ew kit and it's absolutely perfect for grey color separation. I'll gladly keep the white primer since I needed that as an actual primer but I'm definitely ordering the GREY again to paint an MG wing gundam zero ver ka that I'm planning for a spring/ summer project. This is definitely the best paint/primer I've ever used. The grey this is advertised as is in my photo on my rg wing gundam as all the lightest grey parts, the darker grey is light ghost grey.

Fantastic application - dries quickly though I do recommend waiting a day before painting over it, just to be on the safe side (at least a few hours) - hard to do when you're excited to paint! It doesn't gum up the tiny details as long as you're careful.

Always excellent products!

Paint in a spray can

Goes on perfectly smooth, gets into all the tight areas without filling in the fine details. Works great on my resin 3D prints

This works well for my projects, although it doesn't dry flat. More of a sheen and requires sanding before painting. That said, it would be nice of the can was a bit larger. The price is twice as much as usually paid for cans twice this size. The price vs size is the reason for my giving only 4 stars.

I've used Rust-O-Leum primer from Home Depot for a while on 40k models and it is generally pretty good. With a recent kitbash project I didn't want to take any chances so I picked up the Tamiya Fine Light Gray surface primer. As you can see from the images (screenshots from my Instagram) the coverage is excellent, and details are preserved. Yes, it is more expensive, but it is also formulated for this kind of work. When I'm spending hundreds of hours on projects, I will pay for high quality materials like this. There were no nozzle jams, paint dribbling down the can, or random chunks flying out of the can.IMPORTANT: This is LIGHT Gray, it isn't dark at all. In fact it's so light that I didn't bother using the other can of Tamiya White Fine Surface Primer for the zenithal highlighting pass. As far as I have found, White and Light Gray are the only 2 colours that Tamiya makes for their Fine Surface Primer formulated for plastics, no dark gray or black unfortunately.

After a VERY long hiatus (I'm in my mid-60's), I decided to start modeling again. For my plastic models, I chose a couple of WW II models that require some metallic colors. Now all I knew and used back in the day were oil-based paints and thinners. Primers were not a concern. Fortunately, my son does modeling for role-playing games and educated my on asking the parts before applying primer, all to give the acrylic paints (new to me, also) good adhesion and prevent flaking/chipping later on down the line.He recommended this brand of primer, so I bought it in basic light grey as a neutral base for the various colors I'd be using. Now I've used spray primers before, but always in home project applications, but I wasn't ready for what the Tamiya primer provided: the finest mist that I've ever seen come out of a spray can other than hair spray. It lands like dust on the plastic and covers in just a couple of coats. It dries quickly and allows me to paint without streaking or running with slightly thinned acrylic paints. Wish we had this stuff when modeling 50 years ago.