Will hair spray seal in acylic paint?

[kev1969]

Ive weathered a helmet with acrylic paint and want to seal the paint,
the helmet itself is 2K gloss white and I don't want to lose the finish of the paint.
Question is can I use hair spray to seal the acrylic pint so it wont rub off?

 

[8 perf]

Why not just use a gloss clear coat? Thats what they are made for. Hairspray is jsut low tac spray glue IMO. It will do nothing but attract dust and dirt.

 

[joberg]

Bad idea, not only it's tacky but the propellant/hair spray could react badly with your paint; use a regular clear coat.

 

[TazMan2000]

I'm thinking that you may want to protect the matte finish of the weathering while still keeping the gloss finish of the helmet, right?
In that case, there is not much you can do, unless you take a paint brush and paint a matte clear coat over the areas of weathering.

In my opinion, you may just want to leave it as is, and see how the acrylic weathering wears with use. After all, a real helmet will wear, lose its gloss finish by getting scratches and get dirty, especially in battle. Also, some of the dirt will rub off to get replaced with different types of wear, scratches, gouges, dents.

TazMan2000

 

[kev1969]

I'm thinking that you may want to protect the matte finish of the weathering while still keeping the gloss finish of the helmet, right?
In that case, there is not much you can do, unless you take a paint brush and paint a matte clear coat over the areas of weathering.

In my opinion, you may just want to leave it as is, and see how the acrylic weathering wears with use. After all, a real helmet will wear, lose its gloss finish by getting scratches and get dirty, especially in battle. Also, some of the dirt will rub off to get replaced with different types of wear, scratches, gouges, dents.

TazMan2000

Yep, that's exactly what I wanted to do, I wanted to keep the gloss while keeping the matte finish, I think il leave it and see how it works out, thank you guys for your help.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

I’ve seen a few YouTube tutorials regarding weathering trooper helmets and using hairspray to seal in the Fullers Earth weathering. I guess the intent behind using hairspray is to make the weathering non-permanent and something you can simply wash off at some point? I’ve always gone the clear coat route, myself, which preserved the weathering work and ensured that the paint finish is not damaged due to interactions with the hairspray.

 

[Clutch]

Mask off the glossy with latex. Spray the unmasked areas with Testor's dullcoat. I would test the latex on a small part of the gloss to make sure it doesn't react with it first.