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Just curious if the old white plastic marines are more brittle than the newer grey? I want to strip a 30 marine RT001 set I just got and don't want them to melt in, say, brake fluid

Use biostrip 20, it's non toxic and plastic friendly

Simple green FTW, stripped all my old SM with that no probs

Thank ya both, sure hate to ruin some classics. Yeah there a little goofy but I have a old rhino and an old football LR that outa make a cool lookin little force painted up nice...

Castrol SuperClean!!!!!!

Works better than simple green, by a lot. The paint literally sloughs off the models.

I stripped some in some brake fluid fine (got a batch painted by a well meaning but clueless 10 year old).

Came out fine after 5-10 minutes and a scrub with a toothbrush (and this was for enamel paints, too). Simple green struggles with enamels.

Fairy Power Spray is apparently the duck's nuts though for acrylics. 30 minutes and a scrub with an old toothbrush. According to Meeples and Miniatures. Superclean can also work quite well (it's used for removing oil stains from concrete).

Unless you know what kind of paint that is actually on the model, think of the worst case scenario.

then you got to factor in the price of the chemical.

GW paint = Simple green or 91% Isoropyl alcohol.

Brake fluid is for the extreme cases which works pretty well.

Since I have not used Biostrip20 I can not endorse it yet.


Always use a test model before using any sort of stripper.

I will advise biostrip 20 also.

I would guestimate the vast majority are "base" coated in a heavy spray paint (not citadel). I just happen to have a giant bottle of brake fluid at the house so just gonna drop one in and hope for the best. Thank you everyone for the tips!!!