Hello modelers. I have two questions.
Should I prime the barrel before i paint it and if so, can i use automotive gray primer in a spray can? Do I use super glue to afix the barrel to the tank as well as the other metal parts?
Thanks guys
You can’t use regular model glue to glue metal or pe parts to plastic. You have to use superglue. As far as priming goes, I don’t usually prime really small metal parts, whether they be pe or brass or whatever else. For something as large as a barrel, I’d say you probably have to. I’ve sprayed acrylic over gray automotive primer without any trouble, but I’m not a paint expert. You might want to wait to see what other answers come up before you go ahead.
I’d prime the metal barrel. I use Plasti-kote sandable gray primer in a spray can. This will give your base color paint something to hold onto.
I’ve had good luck using 5-minute clear epoxy to ‘glue’ plastic and metal parts together.Super-glue will work as well.
Glenn
An alternative is Krylon sandable white. Good stuff. Or if you preshade your tank in black, I’d use the Games Workshop/Citadel black primer, available at many games workshop stores in malls and the like. (They are the fantasy and scifi gaming stores with the big armoured space marine guy in the front window of the store.) I prefer their black primer over all others in rattle cans. I’d just shoot the whole tank with it, barrel and all.
Cyanoacrylate (“superglue” or “crazyglue”) is what I’d suggest to hold the barrel. 5-minute epoxy is great, but it is a two-part epoxy and if you mix it a little off, it never really dries, and the barrel will eventually droop.