are you using chipping fluid for aircraft? or do you just weather using metal paint to simulate chipping?

If i do any chipping at all, which is not often on aircraft, i simply dry brush with Acrylic paint.

Useing hairspray or these chipping fluids seems a bit much unless your doing a wreck or a heavily weathered japanese aircraft.

I don't do much chipping on armour either, its somthing thats way over done IMHO, but again i dry brush acrylics when i do.

I'm with Bish. I've tried both chipping fluids and hairspray, but IMHO a regular paintbrush is easier for 'spot' effects on 'normal use' vehicles.

I use a silver pencil or a small piece of sponge and silver paint. I lean more towards the pencil because it helps me keep my chipping to a minimum and it's easier to control where I want the chipping and how I want it to look. Haven't tried the chipping fluid or hairspray technique as of yet. 

I do it with aluminum paint after everything else is done.  I may use a small brush or a toothpick.

 

I use AK Interactives on Japanese aircraft but not much else. The rest I either dont chip or maybe just a tiny bit around the wear areas and props. My starting to build modern AC at the moment and I don't chip them at all. I use oils on ships and armor.

thanks all, great feedback.  The point about Japanese aircraft, specifically being so weathered, I agree I think in that scenario it's probably the only one that warrants using the chipping fluid.  That being said, it's a pretty cool effect when it works - but sometimes the underlying layer of bare metal will also flake off if one is too hard on the surface.  Also, because I was doing a somewhat complex paint scheme which took a few days to do, the chipping wasn't done right away, which is kind of what Mig recommends (the sooner the better).  And so the paint had really set up and it took me a lot of work to even get a few chips.

I’ve tried hairspray and Vallejo chipping fluid. Couldn’t really get the Vallejo fluid to work well out if my airbrush, so I can’t comment. Hairspray worked ok, but it takes practice. More so than dry brush, sponge, pencil... You also need to make sure the base coat of paint is on there good. With the hairspray I could burn through down to plastic in a jiffy. HS on top of Vallejo aluminum. More practice... The sponge, brush or pencil method is far easier IMO. For small areas like say props, leading edges of wings, walk ways on wings it’s better. If you’re doing a tank or MaK armor suit that gets beat up bad, the chipping solution may be better in the long run.

As Bish said, sometimes way overdone on some models. I use hairspray, salt and pencil methods depending on the application.

Hairspray from the dollar store does the same thing as those tiny expensive brand name chipping fluid bottles. Click on the pictures for closeups.

Hairspray method on my Tamiya Seiran exposing the Jap red primer used in Naval aircraft. I also used the pencil method for deeper paint damage

The salt method is good on heavily chipped late war Japanese aircraft giving true chip damage:

#2 pencil has darker lead and looks as older paint damage:

 

I should have also mentioned I sometimes drybrush aluminum in areas that are subject to wear but not exactly chipping.  Area near wingwalks is a typical area for this type of wear, where paint is wearing away but gradually, not exactly chipping or flaking off.

 

plasticjunkie

As Bish said, sometimes way overdone on some models. I use hairspray, salt and pencil methods depending on the application.

Hairspray from the dollar store does the same thing as those tiny expensive brand name chipping fluid bottles. Click on the pictures for closeups.

Hairspray method on my Tamiya Seiran exposing the Jap red primer used in Naval aircraft. I also used the pencil method for deeper paint damage

The salt method is good on heavily chipped late war Japanese aircraft giving true chip damage:

#2 pencil has darker lead and looks as older paint damage:

 

 

Now thats what chipping on armour should look like. never tried a pencil, will give that a go.

Thanks Bish