Thank you, Peter!
Paintjob (2)The postman came by......
....with my spray can of white paint. I was able to buy the hairspray myself in the shop, as even in covid-19 times this seems to be a bare essential!
So now I'm gonna try the hairspray method. A first for me.....exiting!
The hull after two layers of hairspray, an hour of drying, and two layers of white acrylic spray paint.
The wheels and the turret hatch were treated too.
And then action, using water, a stiff brush, a toothbrush and a toothstick. I think I'm happy with the result.
Some observations however:
-I didn't spray the model well enough with the hairspray. There was some sprayshadow, notably on the undersides of the fuel tank, were the white paint would not come off.
- Due to the cappillary effect there is little hairspray on convex corners and edges and more hairspray in concave corners and edges, although for chipping you'd like to have the most damage on the convex parts.
Wheels and turret hatch.
Evaluation:
Well succeeded, although I had another, more faded image in my head beforehand. But maybe that asks for another technique. It surprised me that you are much dependent on where the hairspray is thick or thin on your model, and that this does not correspond with the places you's like to chip.
The result is quite realistic, as it is really chipped paint.
But it is also quite an elaborate technique. I think I can reach almost the same result with paint and a fine brush. (Which I will try on a next T34 model.) But with some more experience there are also more spectalar results to gain, I think. I'll try it again for sure.
On with more weathering now.