Advice on stripping plastic figs please.

whitehawk · Post by **whitehawk** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:31 am

I have just received the Blood Bowl game from e-bay. The plastic figures have been painted with a gloss paint and I was wondering wether someone had ever managed to stripp paint from plastics, especially gloss paint. I have some nitromors but maybe that is a bit strong?

Grundgen · Post by **Grundgen** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:28 pm

I've never had any problems with ordinary vehicle Brake Fluid...let em soak in it for a day or two and use a toothbrush to clean off the paint

sineater40k · Post by **sineater40k** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:49 pm

When you say gloss, are we talking as in spray paint? If the paint is an enamel, forget it. If its just acrylic, then you can strip it with easy off oven cleaner.

whitehawk · Post by **whitehawk** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:01 pm

I am not sure as I didnt paint them, I have just bought some oven cleaner that says not to be used on plastics, but it was recomended on another site, I will try it out tonight and see what happens.

McSnaga · Post by **McSnaga** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:15 pm

Definitley don't use Nitromorrs on plastics; you''ll just have one gooey mess.

(Which I found out by stupidly leaving a base on a model once)

KLK · Post by **KLK** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:25 pm

I always use oven cleaner in matal and plastic. the results are very good, and the plastic doesn't suffer damage

Munkey · Post by **Munkey** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 6:59 pm

I'm led to believe that Dettol will work as well, but o've not actually tried it on plastics.

sorne · Post by **sorne** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:19 pm

McSnaga wrote:Definitley don't use Nitromorrs on plastics; you''ll just have one gooey mess.

(Which I found out by stupidly leaving a base on a model once)

I lost a couple of space marine jump packs and a missile launcher .

MistWraith · Post by **MistWraith** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 2:58 am

Break Fluid will strip off both enamel paint, and clear acrylic spray coatings. It will not hurt the plastic or metal. I have never lost a model to damage by break fluid, and have used it a a huge variety and number of models over the years.

whitehawk · Post by **whitehawk** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 1:59 pm

Thanks for the tips. This is what I did. First I soaked figs in oven cleaner for a few hours then brushed with a toothbrush which removed a little paint although for some reason it hardly got rid of the red paint?
Then I picked at the figs with a cocktail stick to get right in the creases.
Then I washed them in Isopropyl alcohol rubbing them with a toothbrush which got rid of all the paint including the red which just disolved.
Ive yet to try metals with this method, although I did try a blood bowl troll with paint stripper and the figure melted into a nice blob

NightDragon · Post by **NightDragon** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 3:11 pm

Not plastic, but I am trying Coke for a week at the moment.

NightDragon · Post by **NightDragon** » Sat May 01, 2004 8:02 am

Just to report back that the Coke didn't work! Does oven cleaner work on metal?

Colin · Post by **Colin** » Sat May 01, 2004 12:47 pm

Yes, works fine, but Pinesol (don't know what the UK equivelant would be) works just as well and you don't have the harsh fumes (use any cleaner with pine oil in it).

NightDragon · Post by **NightDragon** » Sat May 01, 2004 1:07 pm

Just trying that now! Then to paint my all new DE team. Now I just need to decide on the colours.

NightDragon · Post by **NightDragon** » Sun May 02, 2004 7:29 pm

Hey, that oven cleaner is working wonders, great advice!