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Hellooooo,
I have a large amount of poorly painted Spess Mehreens and am looking to sell them-but I simply can't with this awful quality.
I need to mass paint strip them, but I don't know how to do this. I've read some people saying dump them in a tub of 'Simple Green' but I don't know what that means

Please help!

Simple Green is a cleaning product that people use to strip paint by letting the models soak in the solution for an extended amount of time.

I, myself, have used Simple Green with mixed results. The product I swear by, though, is something called Super Clean that comes in a purple bottle. I fill the container with the solution and let my guys sit in it overnight. After that all it really takes is some minor scrubbing with a tooth brush and then your models are ready for their second life.

Seeing as you are from the UK, I'm not really sure of the availability of these cleaning products, but I'm sure someone on here knows of an equivalent for you.

I just rescued all my old models from over 15 years ago from my parent's basement. I painted them when I was like 10 to 14 years old, so I decided to strip them and repaint them. I used super clean from walmart. 6 bucks got you a huge tub of it and it is safe on plastics and metals alike. I just soak the model in a tub of it over night then scrape away with a tough tooth brush or metal brush and it takes the paint right off.

In the UK Brown Dettol is probably your best bet. get a few bottles of dettol, put it in a tub, dump your minis in and leave for a few days.

Then scrub with clean dettol and a toothbrush before washing them off in a bowl of clean soapy water.

RayvenQ wrote:In the UK Brown Dettol is probably your best bet. get a few bottles of dettol, put it in a tub, dump your minis in and leave for a few days.

Then scrub with clean dettol and a toothbrush before washing them off in a bowl of clean soapy water.

Brown Dettol and Clean Dettol are..?

I wrote a quick tutorial on this which may be of some use to you.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/338538.page

Dettol Antiseptic Disinfectant *(this stuff)



and by clean dettol i men stuff freshly out of the bottle, as opposed to using the dettol that your minis have been soaking in.

DrownedRat117 wrote:

RayvenQ wrote:In the UK Brown Dettol is probably your best bet. get a few bottles of dettol, put it in a tub, dump your minis in and leave for a few days.

Then scrub with clean dettol and a toothbrush before washing them off in a bowl of clean soapy water.

Brown Dettol and Clean Dettol are..?

I think

Ninja'd

Ah-Clean meaning a new bottle

Thanks guys!

omfg... There's an post about this exact topic ON THIS VERY PAGE!
There is also a 'Search' button that, when actually used, returns no less than FIVE PAGES of topics containing "Stripping Paint"...




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