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So I have tried my hand at Hair Spray Weathering and it is surprisingly easy to do but I am not sure I am happy with the way it turned out. I think it may just be the color of the rust but I may have also overdone it. I am 99% sure I will strip this model and give it another shot but would love some advice before I give it another go. Thanks in advance!

I think it turned out good from a weathering standpoint but I agree that the undercoat (rust) is too light. The way I prefer to do it is:

Base coat tin bitz, dry brush some boltgun metal highlights on there to make it look a little more naturally metallic, LIGHTLY airbrush on some brown ink, scorched brown in random patches over the tin bitz to make it look a little rustier.

Then layer your hair spray over that and continue with your top coat.

tbh it looks good ..
if you wanted it to have smaller bits of weathering { to make it look abit more worn] get the base colour and sponge it on around the areas that would get banged/nocked so that it gives it abit more scale ,
and then pick out the edges in boltgun metal . then you can add the wash's etc
have a look in my gallery at my large scale marine as thats abit like this..

Your base color is way to light.. I use krylons redish brown primer for my base coat of the rust color if I do hairspray weathering.. Other than that its a good try

I like the way you have weathered this to be honest, I attempted hairspray weathering on the siege shield of a vindicator once, it turned out okay, but yours looks great! Now you have your rust patchs unearthed, try lightly stippling some darker browns or reds into the larger rust patchs, good luck?

That looks great.

So, what exactly is hairspray weathering? How does it work?

The CF wrote:That looks great.

So, what exactly is hairspray weathering? How does it work?

hairspray weathering involves laying down a base coat that will show later. What you do next after your base coat is laid down is spray a few light coats of hairspray over the base coat. Then spray your base color over the hairspray. Allow it all to dry and place it in running water and poke at the outer layer of paint with a stiff brush taking away the main base color. As your taking away your main base color the paint underneath will show through. That is hairspray weathering in a nut shell.

The CF wrote:That looks great.

So, what exactly is hairspray weathering? How does it work?

Here is a great tutorial on how to do it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04RMOchGAS8&feature=relmfu

Thanks everyone, I had used vallejo rust which turned out way to brown for me so I think it will go with a metallic paint instead of the super rust option and then add some rust pigments afterwards.

I appreciate the advice and we will see how my next attempt goes.