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Greetings Painters!,

I know this topic has been covered before here on DAKKA! But for any new joins who may not have got the word from the bird, Simple Green is a excelent paint remover. Untill recently i had not known of this this little trick and tryed it out on a few Marines from a time long ago when my paining skills were not quite up to par. I heard a few rumors and decided to give it a try, giving my old Marines a second chance at life. I droped the Marines in a small tupperware container and sealed it up for about 3 days. When i pulled the metal Marines out and hit it with a old toothbrush the old paint job literaly came off in seconds, back to factory condition. The plastic model just the same, no paint and no damage to the model itsself, although it did take more scrubbing to get it all off compaird to the metal. So i went back to the store, bought a 2.5 gallon rubbermaid tub and 2 more bottles of Simple Green ( About $3.00 a bottle ) and sent my entire Marine army to swim class. After a few hours of scrubbing my throat got a bit sore so make sure you are in a well vented area and perhaps a carpentry mask to cut down on the fumes a bit if ur gonna be going at it for a while like i was. Those of you with sensitive skin may want to use some form of cleaning cloves as well as it does cause mild iritation on your skin. All in all i am very pleased with these results and reccomend this process to anyone who wishes they could do a bit better with their early models. Hope this finds its way into the hands of someone who needed this information like i did. Happy Painting!

- Brother Xorus -

Been using it for awhile with great results. Where do you buy yours for so cheap?

At work we get it in 5 gallon jugs. Its like 60 bucks. I know you can get Gallons at sams for around 20. Question is how does it compare to CSC? CSC=11$ SG=20+-

I got a 1 gallon jug + a spray bottle filled with a pre-diluted solution at home depot for about 10 USD.

Zuul wrote:I got a 1 gallon jug + a spray bottle filled with a pre-diluted solution at home depot for about 10 USD.

Huh I work at a home depot and all we have is the 1gal for 10 bucks. Never seen the bottle.

its an empty bottle that is used for diluting the simply green concentrate.

Which kind are you using?

SpitfireArsonist wrote:Been using it for awhile with great results. Where do you buy yours for so cheap?

I can get it in a household size spray bottle at walmart down in Louisiana.

So your saying there's a plastic paint stripper? Thanks for telling me after I chucked out my bad models :(

Any chance you US chaps could put more info on the Simple Green? What is it? Is it some kind of Kitchen cleaner/bleach or dedicated Paint remover?

We dont have a product called that over the pond :(

Fairy power spray can be used on plastic models to clean them (if you are in the UK).

I've heard Dettol works too, but I've no first hand experience on that.

Simple green worked well enough for myself when they model hadn't had the paint on that long but for some models my brother in law gave me when he moved far away, it didn't touch them. I don't know if the paint was on there too long, but it couldn't get any of the paint off these nids, and it was the same games workshop paint I used. They had been done for about 2 and a half, 3 years.

If you are having trouble shifting it, leave the models submerged for a few days. I understand that simple green does not eat the plastic no matter how long you leave it in there.

Simple green is a household/kitchen cleaner. Where it shines over most other paint removers for our hobby besides castrol super clean which others swear by too, is that its biodegradeable, and safe to pour right down your sink. In fact its good for it heh because it has bacteria that eats the soap skum in the pipes which is what stuff sticks to. I havent tried castrol just simple green, castrol im guessing is faster because its not easy to get the paint off until it has soaked at least a few days. But castrol super clean burns the skin, literally like a carpet burn, rubs the skin off.

Also it can damage plastic, I left em in a few weeks once, started to warp, and even after just a day or two they will be noticebly softer. But since your not using them for strength purposes, just to sit there and look pretty a bit of weakened strength shouldnt matter much.....unless your like me and play tau...and the *(#Q$&^ crisis suits weak ankles give you nothing but headaches. Also I dont know how it affects models with greenstuff work done, it might be bad for them.

For all users not in US, almost any detergent that removes grease is good.

I've been testing with several local brands and all worked on my plastics.