look at my painting guide
Dave
I have done, Dave. Several times. I've learned from it, and I'm glad you took the trouble to do it.
Ref my query about which filler primer I want from Halfords, apologies. I should have said "Do I actually want the Halfords Filler Primer which comes in two sizes and is yellow? The one that has one good review on the Halfords site and three bad ones?". It would seem from Mark's helpful answer that yes, I do.
Ref my query about plasticard, despite having read your guide several times, I hadn't noticed until now that you do in fact mention substrates in your guide - once, in the context of rubbing down, in the third from last para with " ... one way of CHEATING especially if it is a plastic kit is ...". So I'm now guessing that all your advice does apply to styrene too, not just the rubbing down, and that Halfords Primer Filler is good for both wood
and styrene.
Perhaps I should have added that in order to get to Halfords, it's 2-3 miles walking and 40 minutes on the bus, plus I can't actually be away from home for that long very often at the moment, so I need to be confident that when I do finally get there, I get the right stuff. (They don't deliver paint sprays.)