Taylor Reviews Vallejo Mecha Colour Paints

Airbrush or hairybrush application for the primer?

Toothbrushes are not supposed to sand down your teeth. *grin*

 

I got a flier for this paint range the other day, it has the whole catalog, but it's written in Japanese and I don't feel like spending an hour deciphering it.

What exactly is the point of this range? It seems it's intended for gunpla and the Japanese market, rather than mini's like infinity. I imagine it is a very flat saturated colour? It's hard to tell from the example photos in the flier I received, the model they painted is an anime figure and it basically looks like a plastic toy. The example photos seem to be showing that it applies in a thick coat, they painted a white line over a black primed plastic model and it looks solid.

I'm curious.

 

I too have managed to get my hands on the full mecha colour set, but have not had time to experiment with the paints beyond the white, which frankly did not give me very good results (grainy and plenty of dry tip) on an airbrush? May I ask what airbrush are you using? and what size needle? I have tried with a H&S Infinity 0.15mm and it gave me very grainy results (despite thinning and adding paint retarder)

 

Freaking excellent! I may switch to these primers if i can find them here, i see that at least one local vendor has the line but haven't seen the primers there yet. Not sure about the paints themselves yet though, i do believe i have more than a hundred of VMC/VGC so there's far less reason for me to switch to those, but switching primers is not hard.

 

Thanks a lot @taylor for the feedback.
I can't find this range around here yet, but I'm pretty sure I'll give it a try (at least for primers).
I'll keep looking after your work with it

 

i thought mecha range was made for paint plastics,this is interesting .

 

Hi there! Sorry for my bad English in advance guys, bear with me please)

Glad I was able to find this topic. Have a few problems with this primer, hope you can help me out!

Recently I decided to prime all my models with mecha primer black, and after 24+ hours of drying, results are not that exciting, to say the least. It scratches pretty easily and chips aways from small flat areas.

Miniatures was washed and cleaned of course, primer was diluted with original thinner in 1:1 ratio.

Should I just strip it away and prime again with "pure" primer?

 

Never thin primer, it wasn't made for that, use it neat always. Now in this case? Maybe it'd be better to strip and re-prime to prevent future issues

 

Got it, thanks for the reply!
Definitely don't want my painted miniatures to chip off at the slightest touch in the future...

 

so you primed silver model is silver primer -_o so we can't c a damn thing ..
Btw is Mecha line an acrylic r it is aomething different ?

 

It's actually a semi-gloss or satin finish, and the Mecha Color paints bond directly to unprimed plastic like Krylon Fusion. Very scratch-resistant so you can play with your GunPla models (ie, repose them and handle them without worries).

It is acrylic, but as I said the standard colors bond directly to plastic without requiring a primer. From the smell, I think the primer is acrylic polyurethane, but according to the bottle of Mecha Primer Sand Primer I have it is just plain acrylic.

This stuff definitely is made for an airbrush, though. I've tried hairbrushing it on and it doesn't cover very well. It covers about like non-metallic Vallejo Model Air (Air Metallics are awesome, they cover perfectly even over white, everyone should buy them).

 

I've only used their mecha weathering range - the oilstains works well for that manky fluid that leaks out of dumpsters.

 

If you need brushable primer, try Badger Stynylrez / AMMO OneShot / the-UK-brand-I-always-forget, whatever is avaliable near you, they are the same thing. Use Vallejo primers for MDF, unless you have an aribrush (and even so, the Badger seems to beat them).