@Scissors Yeah, you think: “That will never look cool” and you are afraid to mess ip up for the 2nd time, but I am convinced that this time it will be okay… I don’t have to hurry. Halloween is 9 months away! 
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That’s exactly right,if you take your time you’ll get the best result🎃
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You got it down perfect! The base tone is spot on, and the cracks
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Yesterday, I started weathering my black-dyed and so non-screen-accurate “fantasy” coverall and I’ve made 2 bullet holes in my coverall which I bought in the UK.
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It’s a really heavy and sturdy cloth, but a bullet would go even through this, I thought. There’s also fake blood spray but it was already absorbed by the cloth. In places there’s also hot glue painted over by the fake blood that should make the area of the holes less clean.
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Hi,
Now I am owning an airbrush set. First, I have been watching several beginner videos on YT, then I am going to do my first attempts on airbrushing, then I want to build me a cardboard spray booth and finally I will spray the mask with an adhesion promoter, then prime with acrylic skin tone mixed with liquid latex, then apply 2 coats of white airbrush paint, also mixed with latex and a drop or two of silver to give the mask a slight shimmer in the dark. Afterwards, the cracks in the mask have to become discreetly colored and finally I will seal the mask with satin clear lacquer.
For me, now “This is the way”.
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Awesome! I’m curious to see how the airbrush will differ from the drybrushing. I’ve heard the airbrush is definitely smoother looking and has more control, but I don’t think most know how the RZ masks were painted.
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Yesterday, I gave my peeled-off mask two new primer layers of beige acrylic paint mixed with much liquid latex (darker than I thought because the latex dried transparently). Now the colour of the mask is some sort of “Leatherface Myers”. 
Also I ordered a spray booth in order to airbrush the next 1-2 main white layers before I gave it the dark grey wash.
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Woops😆 you’ll get the hang of it.
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I’m counting on the white airbrush paint to be nice and opaque.
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You know it’d be awesome (only if you wanted) to cut the eyes and nose and mouth out like a jack o lantern (like what Michael did to Officer Francis in H40)
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If the TOTS masks wouldn’t be so expensive probably I could do that, this would look cool, I guess, too. But for now I want to finish my MM mask as good as I can.
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Any advice what colour the next layers (airbrush) should have? Pure white layer(s) and then finally a dark grey wash? Or light grey airbrush layer(s) and then the dark grey wash? Or a black wash?
Starting from the current colour “Leatherface Myers”. 
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First brush on a watered down blackish brown wash then dry brush on the white layer. Then if you want a little yellow in the mix you can do a brownish yellow wash after you dry brush the white coat.
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Okay, thanks! I will try… Do you mean dry-brushing the white layer (thick acrylic paint or liquid/thin airbrush colour? Mixed with liquid latex again as I already did on the primer layers) so it is only partially on the mask instead of airbrushing the whole mask white without gaps? You would recommend to do the rest of the mask with bruhes and not with an airbrush?
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I would definitely recommend you use a regular brush because then you have more control over what your doing. Also try dry brushing a thin layer of antique white acrylic paint mixed with a little regular white paint. And make sure to not mix too much liquid latex with your paint because if there’s too much it will cause your paint job to peel off your mask I’ve learned that the hard way.
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You’re doing great—keep it up! Remember, little bumps in the road can spark your creativity, so embrace those challenges! Think outside the box, and you’ll be on your way to achieving your goals. You’ve got this!
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Honestly It looks way better than it did your starting to get the hang of it. You got the white yellowish base color perfectly 
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Thanks, man! I am pretty satisfied with it. I now asked myself how to bring on another liquid latex layer without a soft single-use brush: I simply sprayed it onto the mask! Now it should be possible to do a normal dark grey acrylic wash and then I will finish the mask with a thin layer of clear coat.
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