What colour is red primer?

Polly has/had a color called metal primer.Assuming ( I know that's risky)German red primer was anything like modern spray can shades,it'll work.

Bigbilly wrote: : : Im looking for some help finding an acrylic colour the same as WW2 German : Red primer. : I believe you have two choices - red lead primer and red oxide primer. Without checking, I believe red oxide is the more commonly used primer.

Both are pretty much the same anywhere you find them, there isn't anything magical about the formulations.

Bruce

There are a number of general purpose red oxide primers available at hardware stores and auto parts stores. When red oxide is called for, I usually use one of those. You can use acrylics over them, but you cannot use them OVER previous acrylics.

Note that red oxide (usually ferric oxide) is not the same as red lead.

Thanks all for the suggestions and Gerald cheers for the web site, I've book marked it for future use, alas though it doesn't give the ral 8012 red primer. I suspect because its a primer and not a top coat. Although in this case the tanks left the factory (Skoda) with a camouflage scheme of 50% primer the other 50% made up of 3 or 4 more common colours. I've managed to sort out a close approximation by mixing the two reds 50/50 that appear on the FS chart either side of the one I wanted