I have wondered what the major advantage of using hairspray is. As I understand it, you have to spray it on from the can, which leaves you with very little control. The hairspray goes on quite thick, and I wonder if it will swamp fine detail? If you remove certain areas, do you leave it underneath the other areas, and does this not create an uneven finish, with quite pronounced levels of paint?
I prefer (so far, I'm always open to, and looking for, new techniques..
) the maskol method, which allows total control as to where you want the paint to peel, how much, and it does not leave an extra layer underneath where you don't remove it. Unless you wish to do so, to show rust blistering underneath the paint.
This water tower was done at a local railway show a few weeks ago (don't ask, the owner of my LHS is into trains, and I weather the occasional piece for him...
) were I did some demo painting at my LHS's table. I aplied spots of Scenic Rust the night before, and covered those with maskol, I over painted (brush, no chance to use the AB) with Vallejo, and removed the maskol when the Vallejo had dried for about 30 min. Finished with washes of various dark Vallejo colours, to simulate the rundown streaks.
Excuse the lousy picture quality, they were taken in haste, under less than ideal conditions...
As an aside, I also painted a few railway cars as they should look. The two on the left are from bare grey and black plastic, the aggregate car on the right was a prepainted Bachmann car which I weathered. I can tell you that most railway enthusiast were rather shocked by my cavalier approach to colour selection (what do you mean, you use a green that 'looks like' Great Western Railway 1956 spec Locomotive Green.... begone....
), as well as my taking a shiny railway car, and making it all dirty....
Interesting stuff this hairspray, thanks for sharing your work with us.
Henk
corrected it later...
