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I was wondering if you had any recomendations or guides for stripping paint off of a plastic models withought damaging the model, I traded for some minis but tthey aren't in colors that will work for my army.

There are lots and lots of articles and threads on dakka that deal with this subject, from what I have read try using Simple green (or at least that's what i seem to remember you americans calling it) that should strip all your models including plastics as far as I know but please invest an hour or so in doing a thread search... As my memory is worse than swis cheese combined with the new york tube network, full of holes and you never end up where you expected..

I was searching for it but most of the ones were written either generically or were dealing with metal ones.

I'm fairly certain that within the next 12 hours or so this thread will be full of people with much wortier advice than mine.

Simple Green works on plastic too.

Dunk them in Dettol brown detergent for a couple of days. Works for both metal and plastic, but the smell sucks. Do it in a well ventilated area.

99cent store LA's totally awsome green clean soak for a couple days then scrub with a toothbrush. the paint should just slide off after a good soak.

I just stripped parts of a plastic mini I didn't like with Dettol. Worked a treat.

When I first started I tried all kinds of products, the only one that was the least effective was Simple Green concentrate. You can get it in gallon jugs from Home Depot for like $10 or Wal-Mart(they usually have it near automotive oil and anti freeze). Dump everything in a bucket for at least 24 hrs, I usually leave it over the weekend. DO NOT ADD WATER! After soaking grab a tooth brush and start scrubbing! This will get most of it off, little nooks and cracks are tough to get but if you reprime it you don't even notice. After scrubbing I rinse them off, let em dry and you're good to start painting. Hope this helps.

Whatever the toothbtush doesn't take off can be scraped with the side of a hobby knife. Leaving a little in the recesses isn't a big deal, but you don't want to leave anything on open areas, like a marine's boot or a tank's doors. Leftover paint will form visible "texture" on the model if primed over.