Stripping?

Does anyone know of anything I can use to strip the paint off of some figures
I have? I bought a load second hand and some have paint on them that quite
frankly could have been done better with a roller.

Oven cleaner works a treat.....as long as they're not plastic.....

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> At 08:57 PM 8/20/00 +1000, you wrote:

Also break fluid, and Pine-Sol works. I prefer Pine-Sol for metal (it
melts plastic), It leaves a fresh pine smell that mollifies my wife somewhat
when she finds paint spots in the sink. I don't have much experence with break
fluid, other than putting it in break drums, so I don't know what it does to
plastic.

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> Dave Pullen wrote:

It's a pine oil fluid for cleaning. It's quite strong and very effective for
removing paint. I have tried several
methods and I prefer the Pine-Sol above all others.  For
metal figures only, of course.

> At 03:03 PM 8/20/00 -0400, you wrote:

Nine out of ten list lurkers use Pine-Sol. :) Seriously, I've used it
per recommendations from this list some time back to clean some rather
amateurishly painted old minis... worked like a champ. Even improved the smell
in the workroom.:)

> At 09:23 PM 8/21/00 -0500, you wrote:

As an additional bit of help, soaking the scrubbed miniatures in "Polident
for Partials" -- which is meant to clean metal denture pieces -- helps
get those last little bits of paint out of the nooks and crannys, AND gives a
nice minty scent to the figure. I can't remember who recommended this
originally, but it works nicely.

The other way of getting paint out of the crevices of a figure -- using
a
Water-Pik -- works even better, but is only recommended if you do it
outside and don't wear glasses. Trust me.

G'day John,

> The other way of getting paint out of the crevices of a figure --

Inside with glasses were we?;)

Beth

> At 12:43 PM 8/22/00 +1000, you wrote:

Yes indeed.. Blinded in seconds, and the only reason that there are not still
splatters of paint in my bathroom is because I have since moved.

Oh, and did I mention the bit about wearing old clothes, rather than a
brand-new t-shirt?

Ah, to be young and foolish again....

> >Water-Pik -- works even better, but is only recommended if you do it
Yes indeed.. Blinded in seconds, and the only reason that there are not still
splatters of paint in my bathroom is because I have since moved.
***

Trust you I do, John, but definitely sounds like I'd want my plastic
overglasses, not do without glasses entirely. ;->=

You know, dirt bikers use pull-away sheets of plastic layered over their
helmet faceplates; might be another thing to try...

Let's see: No, no, definitely a clear plastic box with glove holes on the
sides!

The_Beast

-Douglas J. Evans, curmudgeon

One World, one Web, one Program - Microsoft promotional ad
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer - Adolf Hitler

> At 10:35 PM 8/21/00 -0500, you wrote:

Yer damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's like biking in the rain when I
was a kid...WITH my glasses I couldn't see a thing through the coating of
water, and WITHOUT them I was blind as a bat. Accounts for a lot of my scars,
it does.

But yeah, goggles would have been a smart move. Of course, we could talk
all day about the various modelling screw-ups I've experienced.  There
was the time I sent a GZG building shooting across the room with a belt
sander,
the time I embedded an x-acto knife in my thumb (Quote as I looked at
the blood welling up: "Oh, *this* is gonna hurt." And you know what? It
did.)

G'day,

> But yeah, goggles would have been a smart move. Of course, we could

Not trying to be unfeeling John, but this is the hardest I've laughed in a
long time - I'm gonna have the giggles for the rest of the day (mainly
because it sounds like the kind of thing I do.. at which point they'd be a
disgusted "Beth!!" from Derek and a rather quite "Oops" from me). Derek was so
appalled at my ability to lose 5mm scale biplanes in the backyard (they'd zing
off as I tried to drill stand holes in their belly) that when it came time to
mount my GZG fighters he just quietly took the drill, went away and came back
with the finished product;)

Hope you have better modelling luck in the future

Beth

P.S. Having broken 37 parts of my body by the age of 15 I wished I'd had

glasses (and their failure to perform when needed) as an excuse;)

<laugh> It sounds like me also. I rememeber sitting down holding a mini in my
left hand and drilling with a black & decker power drill with my right hand
and thinking "This is REALLY stupid, I'm going to slip and turn my fingers
into ground beef". This was, of course, after the 3rd time the drill bit
slipped off the mini. We all do things we regret.

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There
> was

> because it sounds like the kind of thing I do.. at which point they'd
Derek
> was

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:12:16 +1000 Beth Fulton
> <beth.fulton@marine.csiro.au> writes:

Another member of the 'OOOPs' club!

Welcome.

Gracias.

> At 02:12 PM 8/22/00 +1000, you wrote:
There was
> >the time I sent a GZG building shooting across the room with a belt

Well, it's worth noting that the building shot across the room at high speed,
bounced off a stone wall, and bounced several more times on a concrete
floor...and suffered only a scuff mark or two as a consequence. I'm not sure
what KR casts those buildings out of, but it's good stuff.