Space Wolves Grey...

In an effort to minimize the amount of work I need to put into painting tanks and other large-surfaced vehicles, I am taking a shortcut by Alex's recommendation. I am priming the vehicles grey, which will replace the grey basecoat, leaving only the other color basecoats, black inking, dark grey drybrushing, light grey drybrushing, details, brown inking, and highlights... did I mention this will save me time?

As an unexpected side effect, the grey primer looks uncannily similar to bare plastic...leaving me with a) little clue over what's been primed and what's not, and b) making my models look like I painted the details directly over plastic. The embarrassment.

(From the left, painted, primed, unprimed. Can't see the difference? Me neither...)

In fact, if it wasn't for the brass plate on the door, you could not tell which is which from the pictures.

The final product, not entirely a complete disaster:

Markings and symbols to come. I really hope I am in fact saving time and not spending extra time mending for not having a solid basecoat.