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ok, i have a little dilema, i just stripped the paint thouroughly off of a unit of 25 warriors (plastic fiqures) using the recommended pinsol. i let them dry overnight but they seem to have been bleached a little, theres white parts all over the models, none of the plastic melted in the slightest, they still smell of pinesol even after i rinsed them in warm water. is it safe to prime them now, or should i wash them again with soap and water? what are techniques used after stripping the paint? this is my first time doing this.

I've never stripped models but it couldn't hurt to wash them once more with soap and water. worst case you spent a little more time making sure they would come out right.

Definitely wash them with some soap and water, use an old soft toothbrush to scrub and get down into the details. If you don't, paint won't adhere at all due to the film that the stripper leaves behind.

It's also normal for the plastic color to bleach out a bit, nothing to worry about there as you're painting them anyways.

Pinesol is a cleanser, you use it to clean stuff. Washing it off with soap is redundant, warm water should do just fine.

I haven't used Pinesol myself, but if it's anything like Simple Green (another cleanser) you'll never get the smell out. That's one of the reasons that I switched to using Superclean, besides working better it has almost no odor.

They're probably fine to prime. I've only had problems with pinesol and plastics, but maybe you gut lucky.

I stripped enamel off of a Leman Russ once with Pinesol. Primed just fine after a good rinsing, but it smelled like Essence of Christmas Tree to a distance of about 2 feet. I think you'll just have to learn to live with the smell (additional washing is probably a good idea though).

Arstahd, and others

Technically Pine-sol is a cleanser. However it is not merely soap. The product relies on pine oil for cleansing. Pine oil is a mild acid based solvent--hence the sol in the name Pine -SOL. If will damage plastics over time and is the reason for the bleaching seen. So additional cleaning with soap which is not an acid is a very good idea.