painting supremacy vehicles

I have played (and own) more supremacy junk 
than I like to think about. I'm looking for an 
excuse to break out the mushrooms for DS2 or 
laserlight's soon to be released (yeah sure) 
operational scale rules.... 

Anyway, I'd suggest you take a test vehicle, get 
some decent primer (I think I use armouries 
stuff) and prime the thing. Let the paint dry. I 
have had problems getting primer to stick to 
toys before in that it gives a bit patchy 
coverage. But it still offers a pretty good 
coverage for most of the surface. Then paint 
onto that. The only way to help that I can think 
of is take some fine grain sandpaper and very 
lightly sand the surface of the plastic to try to 
remove the smoothness of the outer surface, 
thus giving the primer something to grip on. 
That might work. 

Some plastics just don't like holding paint. 
Some of the 1/72 or 1/76 scale plastic army 
men are hard plastic, others are a softer kind 
that loves to flake off paint. Such seems to be 
the way of the world and not much to do about 
it....

T. 
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Thomas Barclay
Co-Creator of http://www.stargrunt.ca 
Stargrunt II and Dirtside II game site

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