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You can buy it from Menards, its a large chain hardware store. This stuff is best I have ever used, and very safe for plastic and resin. Paint washes away under warm water. Just a little scrubbing with a tooth brush will get the rest. It does seem to dilute after time, reaction to air or something I guess.

It is way way more effective then simple green. I have had things soaking in simple green for months and would not come clean. A week in M-1 it was clean down to the resin.
   
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Boosting Ultramarine Biker






+1 to this thread.

I picked a bottle of LATA today ($1.99 at K-Mart) and have had several models soaking for about 6 hours. I was impatient and decided to see how they are coming along. In only a few hours the paint was sliding off with little effort. I even added a MinWax'd mini to test the effects and (believe it or not) it seemed to be getting stripped faster than the other models. No loss of detail noticed. Great Stuff!

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This stuff is amazing, I am brand new to the hobby, and I bought a cheap set off of ebay, some of the models have a GW 1992 so the primeris very settled, but after soaking them for about 12 hours nearly all of them were easily cleaned a few have stains on them. Currently I'm stripping a rhino from the set, and the primer from that is coming off easily as well after only 6 hours, however I want to leave it in the stuff long enough for the glue to break down, as the driver and gun are both broken on the rhino so I want to take them off and replace them with new bits.
   
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I'm from the future. The future of space

lucas wrote:This seems to work very well. I'll have to see if I can find any here in Canada.

Thanks!


brotheraximand wrote:Do the sell this anywhere in Canada or am i stuck using ebay or going to the states?


Dollar Tree is now in Canada and they carry it.

There's a store locator on Dollar Tree Canada's website:

https://www.dollartreecanada.com/

I got some today and am already testing it on Reaper Bones, Privateer's plastic as well as some resin stuff.

Balance in pick up games? Two people, each with their own goals for the game, design half a board game on their own without knowing the layout of the board and hope it all works out. Good luck with that. The faster you can find like minded individuals who want the same things from the game as you, the better. 
   
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Reporting in:

Metal reaper miniature + Vallejo grey surface primer: stripped

Metal reaper miniature + Krylon white primer: stripped

Metal reaper miniature + Liquitex gesso: stripped

Reaper Bones miniature + Vallejo grey surface primer: stripped

Resin miniature + liquitex gesso: primer left in recesses, returned to LATA. Taken out and brushed again : stripped.

Aluminium painting palette: stripped

Nothing was damaged. Only the resin took two baths. Each bath was 30 or so hours. I found a soft bristle tooth brush worked better than the medium. I think the extra flex let the bristles get into the recesses.

Balance in pick up games? Two people, each with their own goals for the game, design half a board game on their own without knowing the layout of the board and hope it all works out. Good luck with that. The faster you can find like minded individuals who want the same things from the game as you, the better. 
   
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Decrepit Dakkanaut






Burtucky, Michigan

Very nice, thanks for sharing your outcome. Also good to hear from another source that LATA won't harm resin.
   
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Boosting Ultramarine Biker






I can CONFIRM LATA won't harm resin. I soaked 6 Hive Gaurd (resin) for 24 hours in LATA and experienced no loss of detail, brittle-ing or reduction of the super glue bonds.

As a side note, I recently strayed from LATA and decided to give Super Clean (aka Purple Power). I soaked some nids for 24 hours and was really disappointed. It didn't hurt the models but it didn't do a great job at stripping the actual paints/primers/minwax sealer. I picked up some more LATA and 24 hours and another soak, the paint melted off.

Never again will I stray from the goodness that is LATA

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Been Around the Block






Tangential, but : I picked up a couple bottles of this stuff to strip some terminators.

"LA's Totally Awesome all purpose concentrated cleaner"

Under this is a list of stuff it cleans. Lists maybe 2 dozen things. Very first thing on the list? "Blood Stain"

I think I see what's going on here.



   
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More stuff:

Old warzone plastics (I believe they are ABS plastic) with krylon primer. 1 day in the drink, toothbrushed, another day in the stuff = stripped.

Mantic vinyl based plastic (I think they call it "restic" or something stupid like that) with Krylon primer: stripped.

Privateer Press resin objectives with Army Painter primer: stripped.

No damage on anything.

Balance in pick up games? Two people, each with their own goals for the game, design half a board game on their own without knowing the layout of the board and hope it all works out. Good luck with that. The faster you can find like minded individuals who want the same things from the game as you, the better. 
   
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SO far this is my goto stripping agent ..I have also noticed that I can do several batches of stuff in the same solution and I occasionally filter it thru a coffee filter (cone type) in a funnel then add more to my ziplock container. to make up the difference (what staid on the model and got washed down the drain) ..almost time for me to pick up another bottle of the stuff
not bad for a quart bottle I decided to try as an experiment 6 months ago and it has stripped several hundred minis in that time for new paint jobz..(all the 80's and 90's stuff is stripped and most of it repainted )

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Just to state the obvious, LATA works great. I'm sure it has already been mentioned in this thread, but it is carried at WalMart as well if you have no dollar stores/Menards/whatever- picked up a 32oz spray bottle of it for $1.47 today.

For those comparing it to Simple Green, note that Simple Green recently had to change their formula to remove the major ingredient that made it work so well for paint stripping. That's why you'll see posts pre-2013 rave about it, but more recent posts claiming many other options are superior.
   
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this stuff is also great for cleaning of semi dried paint. lets say i am adding some texture to a finished model's base. I don't notice that some of the paint gets, lets say, on his face that i spent a half hour on. when i do notice, dip a brush in some LATA and wipe it along the area. Then I clean with water. done.

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AK907554 wrote:
Does anyone know of any other effective chemicals for stripping that can be found in america?


lol either your trolling or you didn't read the post.

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Let's go with trolling.
   
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Flames of War resin tank w/ krylon white primer: 1 24 hour bath + toothbrushing = primer in recesses. 2nd bath + toothbrushing = super glue separates and all components separate with mild force. 3rd bath = remaining glue flakes away.

No damage to the resin after more than 72 hours in the LATA.

Balance in pick up games? Two people, each with their own goals for the game, design half a board game on their own without knowing the layout of the board and hope it all works out. Good luck with that. The faster you can find like minded individuals who want the same things from the game as you, the better. 
   
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Thank you. I will try this out, i have some minis i bought off of ebay that i wanted to strip.

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Great thread I am glad I stumbled upon this.

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I stumbled on this thread and decided to give it a go. I bought a set of ebay for a huge bargain. It was painted terribly and the paint was REALLY thick.

I tried using non-acetone nail polish remover and it worked somewhat but I was paranoid that if I left them in there for more then 5 minutes that all my details would melt.

This has worked beautifully. After about 24 hours, most of the paint was easy to scrub off and after 48 hours the rest was scrubbed down.

I'll probably start my own modeling/painting thread and this will certainly be a part of it! Thank you, sir!


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It's worth adding that I spent $5 on this. 3 for the large bottle and $2 on 2 toothbrushes (hard and soft bristle). As noted by KingCracker, there is still a ton left over for other models. You can also use it as a very effective cleaner.

I would recommend gloves for your hands though if you plan on working on your models for long periods of time.

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Armored Iron Breaker



Texas

I put my LATA in an ultrasonic cleaner and left my latest trades in there for a few hours, cycling it through a few times due to the heat. Thick, caked on paint just disintegrated. Minimal toothbrush work was required. eBay lots are a breeze with this stuff.

   
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Medrengard

If it helps, i use simple green and thats great for paint stripping, it just comes right off, i only need to scrub mine when paint it caught inbetween REALLY tight detail

   
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Germany

The only way to go :

   
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I want to ask if you can dump LATA down the sink without any issues? I just want to be sure.
   
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Yep, it's a biodegradable degreaser, so no problems with sink disposal.

Balance in pick up games? Two people, each with their own goals for the game, design half a board game on their own without knowing the layout of the board and hope it all works out. Good luck with that. The faster you can find like minded individuals who want the same things from the game as you, the better. 
   
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Burtucky, Michigan

And to reinforce that, yes X 2.


But you do realize you can reuse the stuff several times over right?
   
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I'm still using the same batch I started with. It's black from heavy black primer people put on used stuff i bought, but it just keeps working. I think I've stripped 75+ miniatures with the first bottle so far. I've only been reporting results when i strip a new material or a new paint type.

Balance in pick up games? Two people, each with their own goals for the game, design half a board game on their own without knowing the layout of the board and hope it all works out. Good luck with that. The faster you can find like minded individuals who want the same things from the game as you, the better. 
   
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Thanks
Will try this soon

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I wanted to contribute something to this awesome thread as I've done plenty of buying painted
second hand miniatures and stripping them and I think these kind of threads are worth more in these kind of forums
than most recent tactics about how to play and for OP for the effort.

I've used many different paint stripping methods and this just seems too good to be true.

Is there any markings on the LATA what is the pH of the chemical?
Has anyone ordered this online somewhere to Europe?

The only one I use these days is pH 14 which is highly corrosive and something you can't handle without heavy
protective gloves, ventilation and eye protection. It's reusable and strips metal and plastic in 1-12h clean of any paint with no problem or
loss of details thou.. But would like to have something that works as fast and is not so toxic.

I only wish we could have that in Finland too... Or maybe I just need to visit states for good reason
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut





Germany

 galford wrote:
The only way to go :



Except for metal miniatures, there you can use the good stuff: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/516912.page#6222059

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Sinister Chaos Marine






Rip Fine Cast with this stuff. Been WAY MORE EFFECTIVE THEN SIMPLE GREEN on primer. The Fine Cast seems to semi melt. Can't quite tell as of yet though!

When you guys were finished scrubbing, did you just use warm water to wash off the LATA and let air dry for a few days?

Thanks!!!

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