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I've heard people talking about the hairspray technique when it comes to weathering on tanks but have no clue what it is. Can someone please explain how to do it? I really like the look it leaves.
Paint your basecoat of whatever you want underneath the weathering. Dullcoat it.
Spray with hairspray after its dry. Paint over hairspray with color you want to weather with.
Wet paintbrush in warm water and slowly dab at the paint. the water should dissolve the hairspray and pull the paint off. proceed to remove hairspray/paint in areas/patterns you want to weather
This is better described in the Imperial Armor Masterclass Vol 1.
I was under the assumption that you use salt for the weathering.
What I understand was Undercoat with your weather color, apply salt with hairspray, spray color on top with your main color, then brush off salt with an eraser or such to expose the weather color underneath.
Perhaps I'm thinking of a different method.
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Aerethan wrote:I was under the assumption that you use salt for the weathering.
What I understand was Undercoat with your weather color, apply salt with hairspray, spray color on top with your main color, then brush off salt with an eraser or such to expose the weather color underneath.
Perhaps I'm thinking of a different method.
They have diffrent effects. Play around with them on some bits of plastic to see what effect you get. I find salt on corners, hairspray in the middle (like dozer blades and on the front of tanks - see IA painting and moddleing).
Also best used with an airbrush rather than a paint brush
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basically you spray a rust colored coat then you spray salt water ontop of it, sprinkle salt in the water, let it dry for an hour or so, then spray your normal undercoat. once your undercoat is dry you brush off the salt and viola! rust spots
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