Paint Removal

Hello Everyone: Attempted to paint a Kra'Vak a lime green with a black
undercoat. Came out looking like crap. How do I get the dried paint off
without hurting the metal?

> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, John Fox wrote:

> Hello Everyone:
Came out
> looking like crap. How do I get the dried paint off without hurting

Pine-Sol, assuming you live in USA/Canada.  Not sure what the rest of
the world calls it.

Soak for about a day, then take a tooth brush to it. Don't use the tooth
brush on teeth after that, however. :-)

John,

If you used acrylics, Pine Sol, Easy Off Oven Cleaner, or brake fluid will do
the trick. Just let 'em soak in whatever you choose for awhile, then take a
toothbrush and running water to it. I've been using the oven cleaner lately,
and it works great.

I investigated this a while ago.

The only things you could buy, nitro morse etc, a fairly toxic and sound like
they will damage the mini.

in the end i soaked mine for several days in thinners. And then scrubbed them
with a hard toothbrush.

Got rid of some of the paint, plus all of the glue, and then i painted over
what was left.

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I've done Pine-sol, and various others, but IMO they take too long and
don't do a good enough job. I now use pure acetone and a toothbrush. It will
take about 5 minutes at most. The one thing you'll need to be sure of is to
use it with plenty of ventilation. I usually take mine outside when I need to
strip a mini.

Bill

                    Mark Reindl

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John,

If you used acrylics, Pine Sol, Easy Off Oven Cleaner, or brake fluid will do
the trick. Just let 'em soak in whatever you choose for awhile, then take a
toothbrush and running water to it. I've been using the oven cleaner lately,
and it works great.

Mark

> John Fox wrote:

> Hello Everyone:
Came out
> looking like crap. How do I get the dried paint off without hurting

> on 7/27/00 9:21, Mark Reindl at mreindl@pacbell.net wrote:

> If you used acrylics, Pine Sol, Easy Off Oven Cleaner, or brake fluid

Standard house paint remover works well too (acetone?). As with most of this
stuff use the proper gloves (and change glove set with this stuff.

One thing I should mention about oven cleaner is some metal mixtures react
with a chemical(s) in the oven cleaner if left soaking too long. I ended up
with some GW terminators that took on a black surface after soaking for a day
or two. This "crust" was annoying thing to scrap off (harder to scrape than
the metal it had adhered to and I ended up just priming over it even thought
the texture was a little rough.

> John Fox wrote:
Came out
> looking like crap. How do I get the dried paint off without hurting

Normally I like to use Formula 409. Just soak the fig overnight and brush off
the paint with a stainless steel "toothbrush."

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 07:12:27 -0700 (PDT), John Fox <jfox@verity.com>
wrote:

> Attempted to paint a Kra'Vak a lime green with a black undercoat.
Came out
> looking like crap. How do I get the dried paint off without hurting

I've used two things.

I used actual paint remover from Home Depot. The stuff was probably heavy on
the acetone. It ate through the (obviously) wrong type of rubber gloves I was
using and was very tough on my skin.

The second time, I used Pine-Sol. It was far cheaper, didn't really hurt
the skin (didn't even use gloves) and left the kitchen smelling fresh. *L*

Depends on what you're after, I suppose. The Pine-Sol I actually left
the figures in the "bath" for a couple of days and the paint came off without
a problem and the minis weren't hurt at all. The paint remover worked almost
immediately.

I've used pure technical acetone at the organic chemistry lab, and at least
the way we treated it there, acetone didn't seem to dangerous to me... My skin
got a bit dry after I've washed beakers and stuff in for about 30 minutes
though.. but the casual use was no problem, and the pure stuff doesn't smell
anything really at least after my own experience... But of course I might have
gotten more damage to my brain than I first thought
:))

I'll try to get hold of a few liters of it when the semester starts, and do
some testing myself, then I can tell you what I found out....

Sindre

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> will take about 5 minutes at most. The one thing you'll need to

Hello Everyone: Thanks for the info on paint removal. Took the miniture out
into the garage and coated liberaly with oven cleaner. Let set for roughly 30
minutes. Cam back and washed with lots of water and a sponge (that really was
ready for the trash heap). Got all the paint off except riht where the ship
was glued to the post. Thanks again.