Does anyone prime with silver. Assuming that most planes coming from the factory are silver, isn’t that a bit of realism? Especially if there is some light airbrushing, the silver under looks good. Is it just me or is that true.
By the same token, are any of the WWII fighters actually fabric wings? Someone once told me that corsairs had some fabric or whatever. Is that true? Then, that obviously shoots my silver idea.
Let me know what people prime with if they indeed prime at all.
I am working on a ME109 Messerschmidt and I primed it silver under the light blue. It looks great.
Yes—Some Corsairs had fabric covering on part of the wing. Silver primer
would still be appropriate because fabric covered surfaces are painted with
silver nitro-cellulose dope to protect them from UV.
Ray
Hi guys! About 99% of my models are WW2 U.S. planes. I almost always start off with a silver undercoat first. Then after I paint the top coat I’m able to take some tape to it and create some very realistic paint chipping in the appropriate areas. Here’s something I heard not too long ago but haven’t had a chance to try yet: start with a silver undercoat, then a coat of zinc chromate and then the final overcoat color just like they way they did it in real life. If you try the paint chip technique with tape as I do then it should provide a very realistic look.
-Eric
NSC: I seem to be the exception on this topic. I use Floquil primer as first coat or perhaps SP lettering gray. This gives some “tooth” for color coat and lightens the darker plastic kits. It is also a good way to check for oops in filler or sanding marks…Your 109 had a tan or grey primer unless it’s a late series which may had NM undersurfaces and in K’s the tan primer may have been the finish coat. But that’s a different discussion. Oh ya the rudder could have been wood and fabric also… Chief John