Who sells Flat Gray Enamel model paint in a spray can?

I use this flat gray Rustoleum all the time as a primer.

available from most hardware stores, Home Depot, ACE, just bought a can last week.

I have found items like this at hobby lobby. Shipping was not bad for several cans.

Home Depot has the primer shown in the previous post and a lot of other shades of gray to capture the various colors of concrete. I even found different shades of painters touch gray in Target.

Krylon, Camouflage paint series, Khaki was a good (old/aged) concrete color.  IMO.   New concrete tends to be a different color, from old/aged concrete.  Different paints, (at one time), noted the (new/old) difference.

Guys,  I am very sorry that I was not totally clear.

I don't think I am looking for a primer.    (But I'm not sure.)  What I am after is a enamel spray gray that I can use to very lightly "mist" my finished enamel-painted buildings, so that they look slightly weathered.   Is primer what you are using for this?

Thanks,

Mannyrock

@Mannyrock posted:

Guys,  I am very sorry that I was not totally clear.

I don't think I am looking for a primer.    (But I'm not sure.)  What I am after is a enamel spray gray that I can use to very lightly "mist" my finished enamel-painted buildings, so that they look slightly weathered.   Is primer what you are using for this?

Thanks,

Mannyrock

It would be very difficult to get a fine enough mist from a rattle can. When I use paint to weather an object I find I have to use about 95% thinner. Even then you only need very light coats. Take any other rattle can you have and spray something like a piece of cardboard and see how quickly it turns that item the color of the paint.

Pete

@Norton posted:

It would be very difficult to get a fine enough mist from a rattle can. When I use paint to weather an object I find I have to use about 95% thinner. Even then you only need very light coats. Take any other rattle can you have and spray something like a piece of cardboard and see how quickly it turns that item the color of the paint.

Pete

Try 'touch spraying' on a piece of paper to see if it is adequate.  In other words, increase the distance and give the button one push and look at it.  Then one more push to increase the amount, etc.

Works for me, but you have to see if it works for you.  If the can is at all defective or spits.  Toss it.

There are also these:

John

Thanks for that info Pete.  Sounds like I need to find another way to weather things.  (I don't want to go the  spray gun route. )

Do you folks ever put some light chalk dust on a building, and then spray the whole building with Dull Coat, or would the Dull Coat just not stick?     If not, then do you just lightly chalk after the Dull Coat?

Thanks for all advice.

Thanks Crafttech for that advice.  I will keep it in my head if the chalk thing doesn't work out.

Mannyrock

Chalk works but doesn’t stick as well as weathering powders like Bragdon’s and when you spray clear over either the powders almost disappear. For dry weathering Pan Pastels are are as easy to use and stand up to clear coats better.

Also try brushing on thinned coats of paint. Then there is the old standby of thinned india ink or even better shoe dye well thinned. Practice on scrap with any of these techniques.

Pete

@Norton posted:

Then there is the old standby of thinned india ink or even better shoe dye well thinned.

Yes. Ink/alcohol mixtures are very effective and very versatile. You can make it as dilute as you like, and an art store will carry inks in many colors. You can brush it on or spray it from a pump bottle (those little bottles that are intended for cleaning eyeglasses produce a nice fine mist). You can also just pour it on when you want to simulate stains left from running water on a roof, wall or whatever.

Manny rock, I have used something called “bounce weathering”, where you “bounce the spray off a piece of cardboard, and the finer spray bounces unto the model. Takes a little trial and error. Although I’ve used an airbrush in the past, most of my painting is with spray cans of flat Rust-oleum now. The primers can also be used as a finish coat. (And no airbrush to clean!).

Great ideas and info from all. 

Thanks very much!