First experience with paint stripping

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Corvus
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First experience with paint stripping

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Stripped paint off a metal miniature with acetone. The results were very pleasing :D

before:
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after the soak:
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after the scrub:
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More info: http://corvusminiatures.blogspot.com/20 ... metal.html
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Acetone is really powerful for metal minis, it's really great, it just sucks for plactic/resin ones hehehe
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Sound advice.

Just to add:

For those in the UK (as I've never heard of acetone) brake fluid is perfect. Soak metal miniatures overnight in a large glass jar (it won't corrode and with a seal-able lid will last ages). Once the morning comes brush off the paint with an old toothbrush*, give a good wash in soap and water and marvel at your 'new' miniature. £5 for a couple of litres of brake fluid and it is entirely reusable, I've stripped thirty or so large metal minis and the 400ml of fluid just keeps stripping (although I wouldn't want to spill it on the carpet).


For plastic I've used 'dettol' and it's worked well when submerged for 10 minutes, then give it a good brush off with an old toothbrush *or in my case a clean old shoe brush.
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Wintertooth wrote:For plastic I've used 'dettol'
I don't know if we have this in Belgium. What is it exactly? Some kind of cleaning product?
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Corvus wrote:
Wintertooth wrote:For plastic I've used 'dettol'
I don't know if we have this in Belgium. What is it exactly? Some kind of cleaning product?
There's a topic about it (in this same section, three topics lower this one) where you already asked the question Corvus :D

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7590
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lol thanks :mrgreen: :bonk:
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Another stripping agent I like is PineSol (a pine oil based floor cleaner). It works well overnight, I have even used it on plastic minis (much shorter time).
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