Priming

[Ed Dillon]

Submitted for the readership.
This weekend I started to work on a batch of 25mm figures. I have heard all about how much better it is to wash off figs before priming, so I washed a bunch with dish detergent then rinsed them. After they had dried, I took them out and started to spray on the primer. I was quite surprised to watch the primer run off instead of stick around. Then it dawned on me... Please allow me to _STRONGLY_ recommend that you not use detergent or soap that advertises itself with phrases like "sheeting action" or "prevents water spots". It would seem that the residue can repel primer very nearly as well as it does water drops....
(rass-a-frassing....<mumble, mumble>)
<scrub-scrub-scrub>

[Basil Bulgar-Slayer]

Warning accepted and duly noted. That would also explain a little priming incident that occurred a few years ago. I came. I primed. I recoiled. I cleaned. I re-primed.

Sigh.