I really like a lot of the faux-tina jobs shown...ours is just "well-aged"!
I like some of our patina, but not where the p.o. patched and repainted. A distinct advantage to the faux-tina work is the ability to get a consistent look from top to bottom - front to back.
As mentioned, the cracking, blasted, rusty, aged paint can't be easily reproduced and gives an authenticity to it that I like...not better or worse (well, worse to the unappreciative and/or uneducated I guess).
Bottom line, for us at least, is that I would take a well done faux-tina job over our wore out paint.
