Stardust offers one of the largest collections in the bodywork shop primer field : this category features a wide selection of primers for all types of substrates and materials, with jar packaging for spray-on products.
Body primers are not simply limited to fillers and surfacers, nor to those designed to produce adhesion on bare metal materials. There can be a primer for every material, such as plastic, glass, carbon, leather.
Primers are therefore preparation coats that are most often used to ensure the adhesion of a paint to a specific substrate. Without a primer, a paint can not give a guarantee of adhesion and good behavior over time, because in car body or in the fields of decoration or industry, each product or paint has a role and specific properties. It is rare to have a product that can be used as an adhesion agent, color and finish at the same time.
Car body filler in a can
Stardust is a company that enjoys to collect and research special products. Beyond the special colors for which the company is well known, Stardust has developed over the years an impressive collection of primers of all kinds.
Do you have a special material to paint, a PVC tarp ? Hard chrome ? Crystal bottles ? A polypropylene tank ? .... The list is long and Stardust can offer a rare and effective solution in almost every case, for individuals or professionals.
Body primers can be used with spray guns (and even airbrushes or brushes) or aerosol cans (see our body primer spray category). There are one-component body primers that dry with air at room temperature, and more often, two-component primers that harden quickly with the help of a "hardener" product.
We propose on each page presenting the body primers, packaging in "complete kits" from 300 ml to 8 Liters.
The so-called filling primers
The most widely used and best known primer is the surfacer : it is available in thin or thick versions. It is used to correct slight surface defects such as scratches or to perfect a surface repaired with a filler.
This type of primer is intended to fill every hole and scratch in the surface and to be partially or totally removed during sanding, leaving only a perfectly smooth surface ready for painting.
These coarse products contain a high proportion of filler such as talc. They must be applied in thicknesses of 50 to 150 µm to fill the surface. Their composition must allow them to be easy to sand and therefore not too hard.
3 in 1 products
A primer is used to level and perfect before painting. It is only partly used to adhere to the substrate, but it is not a specialized product to guarantee a flawless adhesion on a non-ferrous metal such as aluminum or even plastic.
There are products (such as STARDUST 2K paint) that can play all roles at the same time, and are at the same time « sticky » on plastic, iron, aluminum, but also « paint » thanks to their choice of colors (RAL or Pantone), and even « clearcoat » by ensuring a high gloss and resistance to weather, mechanical or chemical aggressions.
