Black Friday 29th November

[martin goddard]

This is a national day for applying black undercoat to figures and models.
Do you use black undercoat?
Spray, acrylic or special custom paint

martin

[John Watson]

I use white acrylic paint to undercoat. I try to use airbrush quality paint as it spreads thinner.
John

[martin goddard]

White Friday John?

martin

[Colonel Kilgore]

I used to use black spray, Martin, but I now do the same as John.

Harder to cover black with acrylics; a few issues with spray cans and the mess they can make. I like the control of brush-applied airbrush paint

Simon

[Nick]

I do have a black spray which I generally use for undercoating buildings.
Figures I prefer to use white.

regards,
Nick

[Wardy64]

Buildings & vehicles in black, figures in white.

D&B

[Stewart 46A]

I prefer grey undercoat

Stewart

[Smoking gun]

Depending on the colour scheme I do use a black undercoat, usually Humbrol emanel paint number 33.

Best wishes,
Martin, from a village near Grimsby

[Moggy]

Last few armies I have done with the Army Painter sand colour.  Seems to work well for me.

Derek

[martin goddard]

Like Derek I also find that a sand undercoat is useful.
I use it when the figures are showing a lot of flesh or linen

martin

[Leman (Andy)]

I use grey undercoat, then black undercoat on flesh and hair, then drybrush white, then finally black undercoat on areas taking metallic paint. Everything applied by brush as I gave up using sprays years ago.

[Ben Waterhouse]

I'm a white base boy...

[sukhe_bator (Neil)]

White is the new black. I use white except when I use desert tan for animals and desert vehicles... some of my Senemalese APCs get an olive drab. Tried black once and regretted it. White is like grey primer and enables these old eyes to discern the detail Martin packs in...

Neil

[Colonel Kilgore]

I should add, to Neil's point about seeing the detail, that I have sometimes used a wash on my white primer. This both achieves a degree of preshading if using a thin paint while helping to see what's what.

Simon

[mellis1644]

Black for 15mm and smaller - black with then a white dry brush for 28's for me.

I blame Amazon for the UK black friday thing. I still have family who do not understand the concept and your description would likely make more sense to them than the reality of it.