Ok...I really screwed up last night, In a caffine iduced haze at about 3am
last night I was attempting to apply a coat of matt finish to a few of my
finaly completed mini's (i left them to dry during our game time and went to
finish them after a rousing game of shadowrun) and in the dark I accedently
grabed a can of gray primer...
So does anybody know how to remove the spray primer (its acryllic i think)
from the mini's
with out damaging them so they can be re-painted
later
If these are *metal* - use nail polish remover. Soak for 15 minutes and
scrub with an old toothbrush.
If these are plastic - I have no idea.
> Chris Pratt wrote:
> Ok...I really screwed up last night,
> So does anybody know how to remove the spray
Soak 'em overnight (at least) in Pine-Sol. Actually, any cleanser that
uses a lot of pine oil will do. Then scrub the remnants off with an old
toothbrush, or a brass wire brush. A waterpik will also work...but don't use
it in a bathroom that you don't want to get messy. I learned that the hard
way....
> John Crimmins wrote:
I can second this one, it works very well, although, being the lazy dog that I
am I soaked them for about a week. The paint came off with very little effort.
> >So does anybody know how to remove the spray
If the mini's are metal and the paint is acrylic, then you can use
methyl-ethyl ketone, a.k.a. MEK, which is available from places which
sell industrial plastics or do acrylic fabrication. A 4oz can should run you
about $3 or so. You may also be able to get it from a hardware store, probably
as something to clean PVC pipe with.
Note that pure MEK is _extremely_ volatile ie evaporates very quickly,
so you'll want to work in a ventilated area. Open the container, dump the
mini's in, and seal it again (or find some other way to keep it sealed most of
the time.
MEK does not bother polyethylenes so you use a milk jug or similar container
if you wish.
> At 06:14 PM 8/15/99 -0400, you wrote:
Stripping
Pine-Sol/Dettol - very good but a bit slow, can be used on
plastic but you must be careful on not over-doing it, needs
a long soak. Get a brand with a high% of pine oil.
Acetone/nail varnish remover - fine for metal may
attack glue, needs a long soak.
Brake Fluid - good for metal & plastic - very good
at removing acrylic, needs a long soak.
MEK/Nitromors - powerful but hazardous will remove
any amount of paint and disolves plastic and most glues, no soaking required.
Caustic Soda/Drain Cleaner - powerful but hazardous
but can be used on plastic and removes most paint types will attack some
glues, light soaking required.
My favourite - brake fluid
Okay, this might sound weird but this is what one of my friends at our local
IPMS (International Plastic Modeler Society) club swears by. First, pick up
one of those inexpensive ultrasonic cleaners at the local drug store (these
are the ones used for cleaning dentures). Fill it with denatured alcohol, dump
in the figures and turn it on. I've never done it myself, but he has used it
to successful stripped models painted with acrylics.
Kent McClure
> ----------
> one of those inexpensive ultrasonic cleaners at the local drug
Interesting but slightly expensive solution, maybe worth the effort for
delicate plastics, but metal will be stripped by the simple solvents mentioned
in previous posts.
> Okay, new day. Time to be happy. (- cat) wrote:
AFAIK, it won't bother epoxy. I've had a Kzinti SCCS soaking
in Pine-Sol for a couple of months (! -- I never have time for
everything I want to take care of), and while it disolved the superglue
holding the engines on, the epoxy holding the stand together is untouched.
> Stripping
Just an fyi I learned a couple months ago from stripping some
minis of paint using Pine-Sol: it can (and did for me) attack
superglue. I don't know about epoxy cement stuff.
Mk