These were bought ages ago. And sadly, most of them…are painted already. I say sadly because…as you all will see when I post pictures of all of my models later on in the evening…you will notice one, undeniable universal truth.
The paint jobs are TERRIBLE!!!
I mean, rend your eyes out of your sockets with your own fingers terrible…
So the question now lies thusly. How do SAFELY, and I mean SAFELY, with NO DAMAGE to the model, strip off the paint from these minis?
Oven cleaner should do the trick, i’ve used supermarket-brand stuff on plastic chaos warriors and it works perfectly, it weakens the glue joins though, so you will most likely end up with all the original parts, as though they have just come of the sprue, which IMO, is a good thing (terrible glue jobs on some of my old models >.< )
Yeah, I’ve used simple green in the past, works wonders. Just takes forever to soak in. WHen I lived in Nebraska it was very easy to find it. Not sure about the Illinois area.
I think I am going to take a look for that, it’s worked in the past and if you say it works on plastics (only used it on metals) Then I will use it as well, as I believe Simple Green by its very nature is pretty darn harmless.
Brake Fluid OTOH is very expensive, and simple green or oven cleaner is far cheaper solution.
I say simple green. When I soaked a bunch of plastics in it to remove some unwanted paint, I was very happy when the black primer stayed on the models and all the paint washed away. It was like a miracle because I had only 4 days before a Tourney and I needed them painted.
Thank for the simple green thing, i don’t know if you can get it in england but other oven cleaner should work, this is really useful as pretty much all the model i buy are second hand, theres a market about an hour away from me every Saturday where a guy buys and sells second hand models, where ive picked up some really old renegade models real cheap. He prices them according to paint job and size so i could pick up any old chaos dwarves (even big hats) cheap and strip bad paint off, then sell what i don’t want to you guys cheap to cover my costs. sorry ive sort of high jacked this thread.
nail varnish remover mixed with a bit of water probs 75/25 in small doses, then just rubbed on lightly should remove it fairly quickly. harsh brushing with it will damage the plastic. the actual chemical that melts the plastic is called acetone, and should be avoided unless watered down.
You can also get nail polish remover without aceton. This does the trick nicely too, but make sure it’s without aceton otherwise you’ll have a new spawn for your chaos army…
also forgot to mention dont tell your wife/girlfriend/female-housemate that you are borrowing her nail varnish remover for using on your models. she is not likely to be impressed lol.
also forgot to mention dont tell your wife/girlfriend/female-housemate that you are borrowing her nail varnish remover for using on your models. she is not likely to be impressed lol.
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LMFAO actually I think she'd understand. You see, I consider myself Lucky. My Girlfriend I have hooked into the hobby and she is starting up an Eldar army for Warhammer 40k. Plus she is a major geek and a Girl Gamer. Rare though they be I managed to find one! :cheers
She'd actually probably just laugh at me and then nod in some understanding...and in her head go..."Gods he's freaking weird"
Good to know! Thanks all! I have a lot of paint stripping to do on a lot of bad paint jobs. My army is mostly collected from other people as well and some of the painting is extraordinary, while some of it…well…let’s just say my 9 year old would probably do better blindfolded with a can of spray paint.
