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hey guys my girlfriend was carrying her sisters of battle in a duffle bag on the way to my house a while back and she brought honey with her for tea ( I swear it was for tea!) haha.

and she managed to spill the honey in her bag on a couple things, including the sisters of battle which fortunately are lightly primed and not painted with no basing at all. is there a way I can clean it off without ruining the model itself? what procedure could I use to clean them off so that she could still paint them?


any help is appreciated.

Just run some hot water over them.

I don't see why running water over them like insaniak suggested would hurt anything. Some model types (resin) need to be washed first. I really don't see any problem with it since you don't have any serious paint or basing on them.

Im hoping maybe it could take off the primer that was used on it, Im having them soak in hot water and some Dawn. hopefully I can scrub it off, since the primer my friend put on these doesnt really give the paint anything to hold on too

Place the figures in a bowl of hot water and leave overnight and the honey will dissolve like it would if you were making a hot drink. Then maybe give them a rinse. The metal and primer will be okay.

Aye thermally agitated dihydrogen monoxide will solve your problem as Howard has suggested.

Tell her to add them to her tea like sugar cubes.
Then when she is finished her tea she will have nicely cleaned miniatures, and a sweetened beverage.

Haha and poisoning from primer.

DEAR GOD THEY ARE TAINTED. BURN THEM WITH FIRE.

Moartiki wrote:Im hoping maybe it could take off the primer that was used on it, Im having them soak in hot water and some Dawn. hopefully I can scrub it off, since the primer my friend put on these doesnt really give the paint anything to hold on too

Then just do it like you're stripping them. I would be willing to bet the some Super Clean would tear through that honey without a problem and will also lift the primer nicely.

Cute babes covered in honey?!?

Lick it off dude! Lick it off!!!

(Sorry, just had to be said... )

Campbell1004 wrote:DEAR GOD THEY ARE TAINTED. BURN THEM WITH FIRE.

Yeah, I'd say your best bet would probably be stripping them, just to make sure. Super Clean, Simple Green, LAs Totally Awesome...whichever you prefer, should work. Then just re-prime.

Also, she should get something better for army transportation!

Campbell1004 wrote:DEAR GOD THEY ARE TAINTED. BURN THEM WITH FIRE.

Definitely. At this point you'd likely save more money if you just eradicated them. You should probably purge the bag they were carried in as well. I'd even go so far as to say perhaps you should destroy the girlfriend too, but that'll have to be up to you. The risk of taint is great. What if it wasn't honey? What if it was a batch of tiny nid eggs protected by some sort of sweet, honey-esque plasma?