Yeah and I just hate clutter, as well. Adding more would just…oof. I’m glad there are so many different miniatures for folks out there tho. Maybe someday I’ll be able to get back into painting.
What price gouging? I got this bad boy, a Nolzur's Marvelous Unpainted Adult White Dragon for $40 though I think their own webstore says it's $70. Tiamat's a bit pricy at $350 for the unpainted version, but then I purchase a lot of Games Workshop miniatures so that doesn't seem too expensive to me.
Ma’Al Drakar is about the same size as Tiamat and is half that price. They are selling 7 Orcs for 50 bucks, GW sells 20 orcs for $50. The plastic is cheap garbage on the prepainted minis filled with mold lines and gaps that has caked on primer to filled in that gaps. Price gouging. You think 350 is a fair price for Tiamat compared to Dungeons & Lasers? Bones? Or even the new GW dragon for the Stormcast army? No.
Bones sometimes reacts poorly with aerosol primer ("rattlecans"). Not always, but often enough that they recommend against using it. Brush-on primer or airbrushed primer works fine.
I've had good luck applying primer with my airbrush.
Airbrush primer works great. The problem is aerosol primer. More specifically, the propellants used which often react poorly with the PVC in Bones miniatures.
