Burnas And A Search For A New Primer

I’m willing to bet I’m the slowest painter here…. (no – not that I paint the least – I do paint, just not quickly…)

I finished off two more burnas last night. Only 5 more to go (four for this unit and one to go with the Kommandos unit), and Zagstruk. I’m hoping to get the burnas finished in a week or two so I have a long time to spend on painting the special character.

Rant: Damn Krylon and Rustoleum seem to have discontinued making black primer sprays – either that or there isn’t a single store in the surrounding area that carries/orders it anymore. Sum-bitches. I tried a $4 can of Valspar black primer out of desperation, it was the only black spray primer I could find. Valspar primer is the worst primer on the planet – bar none. Still tacky after four days so into the (Simple Green) Dip the burnas go. I will be searching out the automotive stores today in search of the Primacolor automotive primers. I’ve read it’s pretty good so let’s hope everyone is right. I don’t want to have to prime white/grey and then repaint black just to get started start.

Rant Over

On a good note – I did get the Forgeworld Masterclass Modeler’s book for Christmas. Now all I want to make/paint is tanks. This book is the best military modeling book I’ve seen. This is the type of resource I would have killed for back in the early eighties when I was doing most of my military kits. Sure, there were the magazines but you only got bits and pieces in each issue- nothing all encompassing. There were a few books (which I still have) but to be honest, most of the books were printed in black and white and the few that had color plates weren’t all that good.

I know things have changed in the last 20+ years, especially with the advent of the internet and cheap distribution of knowledge about niche hobbies, but this makes me itch so bad to get back to doing tank kits again. All I’ve got to do now is work/save towards an airbrush setup and it’s all out for me. The first vehicle to get this new treatment will be a third battlewagon for my ork force. Then the stompa will get it’s day.

After that, I’ve got a Tamiya M1A1 kit with a few Verlinden upgrades I’ve been saving for nearly 15 years that will finally get done. I was an M1A1 tank crewman in the service and I’ve been waiting to do this one up right, just like my old tank, but didn’t want to do a half ass job with it. This gives me the inspiration to finally tackle it. Enough with the nostalgia…

I’ll keep you posted as usual.

Later!