Winter is coming

[pixelgeek]

So it will soon be too cold to prime models outside so I will be working on assembling and priming as many minis as I can before winter hits.

Anyone else planning on getting ready for winter?

[Easy E]

I did something last year, but I don't have anything awaiting my spray paint at the moment.

[Pattus Magnus]

Already underway! I’m doing pretty much what you are, preparing models for the 7-month winter painting season. It’s been a bit of a guessing game, though, with a lot of humid or rainy days. No priming disasters yet, and hopefully that will keep being the case.

[Ran The Cid]

How am I supposed to think about winter when its 90F/32C out there! 

But yes, I should get everything prepared for winter projects.  I did last year, and the year before (although most of the 2023 batch remain unpainted).

[Elbows]

While it gets plenty cold here, there are mostly days where it's fine to step outside, spray quick and step back inside (I do the majority of priming on my small staircase anyway).  My 0200 priming sessions may have to come to a stop though...

[Sakuragi Miniatures]

I have the opposite problem at the moment, outside is far too humid and hot to prime. Then when it cools I have to start priming until it gets too cold to prime again.

[pixelgeek]

How am I supposed to think about winter when its 90F/32C out there! 

It is too hot here as well but if I don't start now I'll never get enough tasty nuts primed models stashed away for winter

[v_lazy_dragon]

I will soon!
Usually start in September/October... but lets face it, I don't have a shortage of stuff that's primed and ready to paint

[Dolnikan]

It might sound crazy, but I tend to only spray prime once or twice per year. It then becomes a huge operation, but it works and means that I don't have to bother with my setup for too long.

[manchesterreg]

I have been told to stop spray painting yesterday was in the garage spraying some figures, and the spray can would not shut off, hammered on the button which flew off, and ive got a new can of army painter going off like a volcano, run out of the garage and lob it onto the lawn, no idea why, seemed like a good idea at the time, cue the lawn having a grey streak and our black springador a grey side as he thought it was good to run through the mist, wifey also not happy as freezer in the garage got a respray. So its brush coating from now on.

[HerbertTarkel]

I switched to airbrush primer around 20 years ago. Winter or summer, spring or fall - my airbrush does it all. 

[Mikai]

Is brush coating not a thing anymore? I have had left the hobby 20 years ago, coming back last year. Will need to start to paint my minis one day but I ca somehow not befriend myself with priming with spray.

[Dolnikan]

Is brush coating not a thing anymore? I have had left the hobby 20 years ago, coming back last year. Will need to start to paint my minis one day but I ca somehow not befriend myself with priming with spray.

It is, but to me at least, it's far too much effort and I'm a deeply lazy person.

[pixelgeek]

Is brush coating not a thing anymore?

Almost all of my minis are done with a zenithal prime.

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

Brush coating is the best priming method i have found in some fifty years of painting. Never have bubbles, or loss of detail from puddling of too much paint and you can even prime with lighter colored blocks or swathes where you expect it, while black or dark browns for the crevices, and you can do it indoors in any weather or season.  I use slightly watered down to standard acrylics for all my priming.  It doesn’t have any toxic propellants to breathe in or that deplete the ozone layer and overspray never gets on any of SWMBO’s garden plants or pavement.  It literally takes seconds per fig, probably less total time than setting up the priming station, arranging the figs and shaking up the rattle can for spraying.   It’s just so much more convenient and efficient. 

The only downside has been when i encounter a rather oily resin or 3d printed figure and find the water based paint won’t spread or adhere, but even then i discover it with less hassle than a spray primer might have.