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Stu Pidasso wrote:I was just at my local WalMart today, and they had plenty of white and grey flat primer. The Colorplace brand.

Yep. Found some primer myself today, finally.

Thanks for the update. I'll have to check again.

I've hit most all of the Walmarts in my town recently, and they've all been out of their low cost gray primer spray paint (the one brand-labeled "ColorPlace"). They do have a number of other colors of this brand still on the shelves, just not the primer. Their website also doesn't list it....

Thanks for the confirmation. I usually use acrylic clearcoats sprayed with an airbrush, but I just have been lazy lately. Sometimes it just seems easier to get the spray cans out. Learned a good lesson this time. I'll avoid the Krylon stuff in the future, at least when spraying on Testors products.

Anyone ever have problems spraying Krylon clearcoats over Testors colors? I recently had a model paint finish totally get screwed up after I sprayed a can of Krylon matt finish over the Testors color and off-brand name gloss coat. The paint wrinkled up in several locations, primarily where the matt ...