>>10922311Yes, you do. And if you still see that it's too dark for your taste, you just put another coat or put more paint in some specific places (that's how blackbasing works).
To begin with, it's not a function of a primer to cover the plastic's color with some basic color like gray, white or black. The function of a primer is to adhere to the surface so that the paint can in turn adhere to it. Finisher's primer, Gaia multiprimer, HobbyMio primer, Tamiya metal primer (and others I forgot to list) are clear liquids which cover nothing, but they are still proper primers because they adhere to the surface.
Covering the plastic color is a function of high pigment density paint (which some primers happen to be), but if a primer is your only high-density pigment you should really look at changing your paint brand.
