If you use white primer yhe red would look pinkish at first but you would need yo apply yhe red in layers.use dark primer will make the red look darker do once again will need thecred building up in layers again.personaly I would have said either but you can get pink primer, I know as I am using it on the build I am doing now, ferrari f1.
Red can or could be classed as a middle if the road colour.its neither dark or light, somewhere inbetween.
General rule is, if the top coat is a light colour use a dark primer, if its a dark colour use a lighter primer.your kinda stuck inbetween but you can make either primers work.
Just a case of building up yhe colour in layers.tamiya paints are usualy good, applied in thinned layers, usualy 3 layers.but paints like citadel are realy realy…[Read more]
In reply to - tobeseenfull posted an update in the group Intermediate Modeler – Modeling Competition 2013 i was testing some colors, i'm having trouble getting the red to look red. i used a grey primer and now a mr.color red. do u need to use less thinner or use white as a base ffirst. its looking kinda wierd. and im trying to paint it char color but i cant seem to br able to mis he dark red from the red comet zaku? any help would be great. thanks