, he actually bought his first and I couldn't see green excremente go by me so I had get one tooIf you can find the white pre-primed stuff which commonly used for the back of wardrobes and stuff, you can usually find it at B&Q and such, I normally buy an 8 feet by four feet sheet and let them cut it for me to different sizes, normally the same sizes as the two Scholershamer papers I have, just bigger than A4 and just bigger than A3, if you find this stuff, a couple of thin coats of gesso (sprayed if you can) will suffice otherwise you will need to sand.
If you use the normal bare 4mm MDF you will have to give it more coats with lots of sanding in between unless you can spray on every coat, I normally give two or three coats of household acrylic primer which is cheaper and then a couple of coats of gesso but that's before I discovered the wardrobe stuff
I recently bought a mini HVLP gun with 0.8 mm nozzle as did Mr Bean,
.Cheers Malky
I Remembered the thread about using the pre primed mdf,if I remembered correctly I think you even broke down the price of each panel, so I'll be sourcing that out, if I can save a couple of prep courses I'm all for that,being the lazy sod I am
My question was more about which Gesso to buy but as usual I didn't get my point over clearly. Will look at the price of a mini HVLP gun, if it's not to costly and making prepping the boards easier I'll go down that route,otherwise it will be paint brushes, rollers and wet n dry paper.
and yes my MDF came from B&Q, the Gesso I got from the local HobbyCraft store. The Mini HVLP gun saves a lot of sanding which I find the most boring thing in the world .
It doesn't matter which gesso you buy, gesso is gesso whatever brand it is, it is basically an artists' acrylic primer based on a chalk base with binders for going over canvas and other substrates, it is favoured by some hairy brush artists because of the ability to apply it with a pallet knife allowing them to create some cool fresco effects among others, some artists even apply their paints with a pallet knife and the gesso helps them start and finish with the effect they may be looking for.
So basically go for the cheapest you can find, you will probably find that even if it was "too cheap" it would probably perform more to your liking, generally cheaper gessos contain more water therefore requiring more coats to get the same coverage, however if you find the pre-primed board you won't be after for coverage, you will simply be creating a surface which you can erase ans scrape with relative ease, I actually believe that @beanpoleuk is now addicted to the process,
I consider @Madbrush the expert on Gesso coated MDF
I think you can get different grades of Gesso some harder than other I just picked up whatever was on the shelf at Hobbycraft.
. I do have a decent compressor with a 15ltr tank,a junair silent jobbie, but I don't need to do all the panels at the same time.eBay item number 141340889087 is what I'm considering. Must admit I'm not clued up on them but it looks pretty
.No need to call you a tit,it's always nice to have a few pointers to save me making myself look a numpty then asking what went wrong,which seems to be the norm for my learning process
No a great tit
sorry Malky couldn't resist
