Demo on the Hairspray Chipping Technique 

I am actually doing exactly what you're saying right now on my current project. If you watch my last bench update I put up a couple of days ago, then I show that project a little bit. However, my idea was slightly different as I went for a look of the vehicle having been delivered to the unit in just the basic yellow, then having been used, and then the green camo being applied afterwards. So some areas of frequent use have the chipping of the green and also the yellow, but some areas have chipping of the base yellow but then the green camo isn't very worn down, or vice versa. But you can do it as you said too, that will work the same way, you just chip it in the same areas to expose all the layers of camouflage colour. Now for my tank, I did as you said. Applied the red coat, then hairspray, then the yellow, then I chipped it. Then I sealed it with matte varnish, then applied more hairspray, and then applied the green camo colour, and then chipped that. For example, another RU-vid modeller Sergio Solo did it here too in his tutorial which I recommend watching: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VP2ClESAClU.html Hopefully that helps. I'm hoping my tutorial on the tank I mentioned will be up in the coming weeks.

Thanks Chris!

Thank you Michael!

You could just apply a little more HS there and more of the top colour, and then chip at that. The chips will expose either the previous layer of top colour, or the chipping colour unerneath, so that should give you fewer chippy areas of that bottom colour. I also agree with what you said up there about chipping on tanks. Photos of the real thing show pretty much no chipping.

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I don't think you can chip this way with enamels. Water won't penetrate them very well so it'll be hard for the water to get in and dissolve the hairspray.

That's a good idea, I should have mentioned how you can decant the hairspray. I'll do that next time

If you use water to thin the paint for airbrushing, apparently you can reactivate it months later.

Basically just once the paint has dried I do it right away. So maybe 5 to 10 minutes for Tamiya paint, but other paints might take longer to dry. But this is not really an issue unless it's a lacquer baser paint.

+AP the problem is that you applied the hairspray too heavily. You get bigger chips when there is too much HS/chipping medium since it just starts to flake off instead of chipping nicely. Try just two thin applications. Alternatively, you might have been using a bad paint for chipping, though if you were thinning it with lacquer thinner I doubt it was a bad paint. But just in case, what paint were you using for the top coat?

@@Panzermeister36 I used Tamiya paints. All new bought in the last few months.

Then try less hairspray. You only need a very thin misting or two over the tank. Don't flood it.

+Winoto San I would not use lacquer for the main colour, as it can be too durable to chip. Use acrylics for that colour, and lacquers for the primer colour.

Thanks for your help, man. I will subs. :))

You were probably applying too much water or too much hairspray

Possibly, if the coat if paint is thin enough and you should try to chip it within about 10 minutes so it doesn't have time to fully cure. Do a test run on a spare kit part first to see if it will work alright.

@@Panzermeister36 I tried this with Tamiya spay paint (on a spare bit of plastic), and it does not work. Thanks for all the tutorials. They're a big help.

Thank you for letting me know. It's tough to spray a thin coat with a can, and those paints are also super tough so they're going to be doubly hard to chip.

Panzermeister36 I’m talking myself into getting an airbrush. Only thing I need to figure out is the ventilation. If you haven’t done this, it might be worth a video on setting up an in-home airbrush work area. Maybe I’m over-thinking it.

@@Panzermeister36 Many thanks for the tips on Afrika Korps coloring and weathering (and your weathering tips in other videos). Really helped me step up my game, even without the hairspray-chipping.

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I'm pretty sure this effect only really works with acrylic paints, but it could work with oils...

Ill try in the future. sumtime

Do I need to use an airbrush? Can I use a basic paintbrush for everything? For base coat and the layer to be chipped.

I just wait until it's dry to the touch. So maybe 10 minutes at most.

thanks man

Plenty of people say I speak too quickly too. A lot of my viewers are from Europe and don't speak English as their first language. I don't want them to be left behind.

Take a look at old WWII whitewashed tanks. They are pretty nasty

This is a Gundam. It's a 20 meter tall anime space robot that punches other anime space robots. I wasn't exactly going for the most realistic approach as the subject itself is not realistic.

You are right and wrong IMO. In a perfect world you are correct, but for display sometimes you need to make it look a little exaggerated so it stands out from 3 feet away.