Hairspray failure... going at it again! (Hairspray 2.0)

[Guest]

BUY THE AMMO MIG HAIRSPRAY EFFECT PRODUCT. It will fix it up
Cheers

That's the one I used in the test and it performed a lot worse than the hairspray!

[Guest]

That's the one I used in the test and it performed a lot worse than the hairspray!

funny. I use it great...

[Guest]

Just thought I post to say that I've finally got the hang of this hairspray chipping malarkey!
I was simply not using enough hairspray or chipping medium. (which I suspect is just some sort of generic "hairspray" put in very expensive bottles)

I've started to build my Eduard 1/48 J35-F Draken and the plane I'm making is/was very worn so I decided to try this hairspray chipping once and for all inside the cockpit, olive drab on silver base.
I accidentally took my 0.4mm airbrush instead of my 0.15mm and managed to empty my cup almost in one go into the cockpit interior. I first panicked but then decided to just blow the excess away with the airbrush and at the same time make sure it dried. When dried I just sprayed it with olive drab (Tamiya) and let it dry for a minute and then wet the surfaces with a wet brush - and now it chipped away like nothing else! :thumb2:

So if you're in the same situation like me where it doesn't work - just go crazy with the hairspray on a test piece and you'll see a big difference!

I.e. if it takes an effort to chip the paint you're doing it wrong. You hardly need to use the brush at all!

[Guest]

There is a chipping medium and a wear medium, cannot remember if mine are Mig or AK. The chipping medium is designed to take chunks out. The wear medium is more like hairspray in that you can get more ‘blended’ looking areas. My tractor was all done with wear medium[ATTACH]292764[/ATTACH]

[Mr Bowcat]

I think you are right about the amount of hairspray Jens. I've just done my Centurion, but tested on some spare parts first. Initially I decanted the hairspray and airbrushed it, and got similar results to your early attempts. When I did the actual tank I just blasted it straight from the can, which produced a much heavier coating, but the chipping actually worked very well. I still had to go at it a bit with the brush to get it started, so maybe an even heavier coat is the answer??

[Tyrel]

The best results I've had was to spray the base coat. Let dry overnight. Medium coat of hairspray with a dry time of no more than 30 minutes. Coat of XF2 white using water as the thinning agent. (I tried it once using Tamiya acrylic thinner with XF2 but had to work extra hard to achieve mediocre results). I then got a flat point brush and snipped the bristles off at the half way point. The majority of chipping was done using that brush. I used a couple of other ones for fine work but they only really worked good when I used water as the thinning agent. Here's a couple of examples.[ATTACH]292924[/ATTACH][ATTACH]292925[/ATTACH]