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i sent an inquiry to the old Paint Shop column in MR some years ago asking the very question you ask. it was published, but with no solution to the problem. i have tried and tried to "set" powdered chalk on my rolling stock. i have tried spraying a lite coat of paint, with retarder added, to the car and putting the pastels over this. don't do it unless you are going to throw the car away anyhow. i have tried a dilute solution of various types of glue misted on with an airbrush. if i have heard about it, it have tried it. if you want the pastel chalks to look the way they are when you apply them, i suggest you do what i do. nothing. just leave the chalk on the car dry, carefully place the car on the track and do not touch it again. i have gone away from chalks on my rolling stock and now use dry brush and air bru***echniques to get the weathering i seek. hope you find a solution, a REAL solution, to the problem of fixing pastels to rolling stock. i have not. tom
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