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For an opposing point of view: I used sprayers sucessfully for years (lots, with slightly different colors). I used Hydrocal plaster and never had any problems with plaster not taking the color. I used the leopard spots method of coloring described in the Woodland Scenics handbook. The rule for coloring plaster with stains is: "you can always make it darker, but never lighter." It is much like watercolor painting where the paper is the white and in that situation as well, if you get things too dark, they are hard to fix. Here is an example of some of my rocks: [img]http://www.railimages.com/albums/guycantwell/aag.jpg[/img]
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