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What color primer would you use on a blue molded body that you want to paint white? I do not know if blue is a problem color for bleeding through. It is the Italeri Volvo 780 truck kit and the company truck I am doing is white. I have Tamiya white primer and testors gray.

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I'd use Walmart gray, then Walmart white (both are very thin and very opaque), and then my white.

I've heard very few if ANY complaints in my life about blue plastic color "bleeding through" white. It's almost always red, orange, or sometimes yellow that give those problems. My theory is that there's something about the wavelength of red light that enables it to penetrate white paint more easily than colors at the other end of the spectrum.

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