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After reading this it made me get my stripping project done. I have had 15 termies soaking in LA's for the last week and didn't want to take any chances, they came out fine.

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May I ask what variant of simple green I am meant to use? ( I'm in Australia)

I went to Bunnings and bought Simple Green on two different occasions and the miniatures never stripped. My AOBR boyz have been in there for about 2 months, I left them on my freezer in the garage in the hope of agitating it slightly and I've given them a bit of scrub each week and they are nowhere near stripped yet (the last moth of so I've given up on the scrubbing). I painted them myself with citadel paints and heavy devlan mud wash, so there is nothing on them protecting it.

The variant I used was the General-Purpose Cleaner it says on the front (Green Bottle). Is there some other stronger stuff people are using??? The only thing I seem to have any success with is Acetone which I've been using to strip both metal and plastic. It's messy, fume heavy and I can't just leave my minis in it and forget which I would love to do, however it does get the job done within minutes.

You put them ALL in an untested stripper at once?.... i used to drop in a painted arm and see what happened to test them first....

Wolf.

On a positive note, loving your warboss.

i woulsn't count the models out yet, i think they would make a great basis for some orks lol, jsut add a head maybe an arm or 2 with some gunz and bam...you might even start melting more models to make a melted army...sounds cool to me, it will be tricky to paint them but i think it would be a good challenge.

harsh lesson, and i hate the feeling like crap in your gut, even more so when it was a reflex decision that you wouldn't normally make. but thats life i guess.

oh as a side note for people who don't live in the usa or places where you find the commonly mentioned paint stripper safe for model stuff. try out dettol you know the antiseptic stuff, apparently the original brownish dettol is the bomb and in a pharmacy near you!

fenrir1997 wrote:
-Easy Off Oven Cleaner

I can vouch for this on METAL miniatures. Ive used it to strip Battletech miniatures. I can imagine it will totally destroy any plastic or resin.

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This is something that bothers me. All natural does not mean "safe" or "safer". I work in a pharmacy and customers constantly ask for an all-natural alternative to medicines that have been tested for years and proven to work. As another person posted, cyanide is also "all natural"

Other dangerous "natural" substances - Death Cap Mushrooms. Fugu (fish). Snake venom.

Some of the most lethal poisons to humans aren't created in a laboratory - they're found living their lives in forests, grasslands, deserts and waterways.

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As for your ruined models, why not paint them up and use them as objective markers?

I use Citristrip on my metal minis. Its done the best job of getting paint off that the other stripping products can't seem to phase. I love this stuff.

Bears are also all natural.

I actually use the Simple Green concentrate that comes in the big jug. We already use it in the house, so I just borrow as needed.

It's do anything but Finecast, because well......Finecast is such a crappy material that as far as the community knows, nothing will strip it without damaging it.

Dettol... works and easy to get in uk.

I'm still quite new but some of my paint bottles got entirely empted in to my only box of minis. after looking on tube I tried dettol making sure to get the 1 with ( Chloroxyenol ) in it and after a 24hour soak and a quick rub with a old toothbrush there good as knew, I dont know if this works on metal and resin but worked fantastic on plastic minis and assorted kids toys.now i have a old chip pan full of the stuff in the outside loo and getting an eye for cheap deals on ebay.

That's a really nicely painted warboss though...

I agree here. Definitely a tough lesson to learn but at least with the sample we can see that any future painting will be well done. ... As an aside you could add greenstuff to your melted minis and try for nurgle chaos minions

way to make nurgle marines. maybe this stuff is useful, now that we know its effects.

its been said in several threads, but here it is again.



this is THE best stuff hands down available in the US. it kicks Simple Green's butt, just DO NOT get it on your skin. it'll strip paint in 30 minutes. (soaked in concentrate)

I have plastic, resin, and metal models in there now for a week or more, no damage, warping, or anything. its tough to remove primer just because its primer, but it'll strip some paint off right fast.

I have an auto washing bin with this sitting in a bath from to soak and then wash models with. works amazing.

if you do use simple green on fine cast it just takes a lot longer i have soaked a few fine casts in it and it worked out pretty well.

again sucks for your loss.
looks like your starting an ork army now
dust your self off and try again no use in crying over spilt milk.

I'd call it lucky. What an awesome heavy flamer diorama that will make!

Also, my 2 cents here...

Simple Green works 75% of the time. The other 25% it does absolutely nothing and you gotta go with plan B, whatever that is.

Wow great plague bearers.

In the old Rogue Trader 'Slave to Darkness' book, Terminators teleporting in could suffer a mishap and arrive as little blobs of misshapen protoplasm, not unlike what you have now.

All kidding aside, I'm sorry it happened to you. There's a lot of different plastics out there and chemicals treat them all differently. I personally never bother stripping plastic figures. I know I've trashed quite a few things because of incompatibility over the years...

vossyvo wrote:May I ask what variant of simple green I am meant to use? ( I'm in Australia)
The variant I used was the General-Purpose Cleaner it says on the front (Green Bottle). Is there some other stronger stuff people are using??? The only thing I seem to have any success with is Acetone which I've been using to strip both metal and plastic. It's messy, fume heavy and I can't just leave my minis in it and forget which I would love to do, however it does get the job done within minutes.

Yeah, that one!

You have to toothbrush the figures after they have been soaking - the paint doesn't just flake off (well, some paint does, but not the standard stuff hobbyists mostly use. Some paint disintegrates, some softens and can be toothbrushed off, and a rare amount (usually really thick paint) can be peeled off, like an awkwardly-shaped tiny orange.

I also bought some of the Orange SG to try out, as far as I could tell from the bottles the only difference is the colour and fragrance. Haven't gotten around to using it yet.



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Rogues Gambit wrote:
oh as a side note for people who don't live in the usa or places where you find the commonly mentioned paint stripper safe for model stuff. try out dettol you know the antiseptic stuff, apparently the original brownish dettol is the bomb and in a pharmacy near you!

This is the Simple Green I use - Available in Aus at Bunnings and Masters. It's a heap cheaper than Dettol as well, which is why I've never bothered trying Dettol...




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Mad4Minis wrote:

fenrir1997 wrote:
-Easy Off Oven Cleaner

I can vouch for this on METAL miniatures. Ive used it to strip Battletech miniatures. I can imagine it will totally destroy any plastic or resin.

I've used it on the old Armorcast and original Forge World company's resin stuff and it worked perfectly. Note that the Forge World I'm talking about is the US-based licenced company that used to make 40k-scale Epic stuff, NOT the current FW we all know which is a subsidiary company of GW.

Use it on the current FW stuff at your own risk!

Yeah I either use Simple Green or Super Clean to strip models.

scipio.au wrote:This is the Simple Green I use - Available in Aus at Bunnings and Masters. It's a heap cheaper than Dettol as well, which is why I've never bothered trying Dettol...

Getting harder to find at Bunnings, although they do have an orange one in a watered-down spray (which works, but not as well) and in a bigger concentrate bottle. The concentrate seems to work about as well as the green one, or its lemon-scented counterpart.

And when in doubt (as Detol, Simple Green and such are non existent here), kitchen's detergent works well, just leave a week or so, but will need scrubbing with an old toothbrush under running water.

Harder, yet safe.

That sucks man, were they plastic? Or pewter?

Call GW customer support and see if they will replace them!! hahahaha

When I was in the Marine Corps, we'd take packets of unsweetened "flavor-aid", mix with a little water so it wasn't quite a paste, and then use that as a solvent while cleaning metal parts we couldn't dunk into a proper cleaning tank. Citric acid may taste nice but it's still acid.

Mad4Minis wrote:

fenrir1997 wrote:
-Easy Off Oven Cleaner

I can vouch for this on METAL miniatures. Ive used it to strip Battletech miniatures. I can imagine it will totally destroy any plastic or resin.

I can vouch for Easy Off Oven Cleaner to remove Chrome from Plastic Car parts. Clorox Bleach does the same thing too, its just not as potent.

I have not tried either on a GW or resin part.


I also have used Pin-Sol straight from the bottle to remove enamels on metal parts. It will attack plastic though if left too long.


Again, test anything you are going to use first.

I've had models soak in simple green, give them a scrub, and return them to the tub...

I've done the same with superclean.

Superclean has consistently continued to work on the same model after multiple baths, I've not found the same success with simple green. Both chemicals smell about the same to me, so I'm just guessing the superclean has more active ingredient...

The second thing to consider is that the cleaner found in your painting aisle is actually somewhat different from the one in your automotive aisle. My SG is from paint aisle, and superclean from automotive, this may be a relevant factor as well..

Keep your models. Just build some terrain centered on a chemical-filled stank-hole that used to be the high gardens of some palace. Derilict terrain with derilict statues. Don't waste your models just cause theyre destroyed. Lastly, if you are any good at greenstuff, you could just use what's left of the models as armatures, and re-build/re-sculpt them. I find resurfacing things with Green stuff is actually pretty simple and a great way of starting to learn to use it. Even if you only take it to the nurgle-marine direction...

As for your cleaner, I think it might be worth giving it one last chance. Find a test model, and try to do a dunk-and-brush on it. Worse comes to worse, buy your army second hand and just dump the metal models in.

I'd totally put those termies on bases, paint them up like normal and act confused/hurt when people see them and ask what's wrong with them.

You could try and sell them on ebay. Maybe someone could use them for dioramas. God knows Ive seen blobs like that on ebay with table top paint job in the title.

I actually had them drying out on meh porch and the wind blew them away. I don't think the Allfather wants me to have them :(

Make sure you get the concentrated version of Simple Green.