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I recently aquired some of the old metalchosen chaos warriors with a dodgy paint job. Since there always seem to be questions on how to strip paint from minis on here i figured there really was no need to ask the best method. I've never stripped metal before but general consensus points to using an acetone based nail polish remover. So into a tub go the chosen and a bottle of nail polish remover. Fast forward 12 hours and i'm expecting to open the tub to gleaming metal but that was not the case. I gave them a thorough scrub with an old toothbrush which helped expose some of the bare metal but nowhere near as much as i thought it was going to.

They have since had a second 12 hour soak and scrub but i feel i'm having to put them back in again. I've stripped plastic with brown dettol before and the results were far better than this after 2 soaks.

Mostly it seems that it's the primer that's being stubborn. The guy i got them from has told me that it was citadel black spray primer he used, has anyone else experienced this when stripping metal with acetone? Either that or i just need to change my brand of nail polish remover.

Yeah i was thinking that any black left in the recesses could act as pre-shading as i'll be priming grey anyway. I was just expecting more since everyone decries acetone for melting plastic minis.