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Do any of the big painting companies offer a stripping service?

I have a few armies I'd like to repaint and stripping the whole force is always a nightmare. I'd love to be able to send off my army to be reduced back to it's parts, so I can start again with the same (sometimes OOP or rare) models. Is this something that exists?

Big tub full of dettol/fairy power spray and just leave em a couple of days boom.

 shingouki wrote:
Big tub full of dettol/fairy power spray and just leave em a couple of days boom.

Or isopropyl alcohol

I find alcohol or power spray works best, dettol... the smell was too much
Usually go for a sprtiz of power spray, leave for 30minutes to an hour, scrub a bit with a toothbrush and rinse, then let them dry off and soak them in the alcohol for as long as you like really - 15minutes seemed like enough to get through the last bits of primer while several days did no harm to the plastic either so no worries however long it takes.

Stripped hundreds and hundreds of pounds worth of models this way last year with only the breakages happening from my heavy hands on the scrubbing.


Doin it as a service isnt something I've thought about before hehe - how much are you feeling is reasonable to pay for that?

Yeah dettol is a touch funky.

Go for an engine degreaser. In the US we have "purple power" which costs about $10-$15 per gallon at Walmart. It works in about 30 minutes from start to finish.

The reason most don't want to strip the models for you is they don't want to strip them and then you complain the strip job wasn't good and the paint job suffers. It's why they want to paint new models.

Honestly I could see them stripping models and then painting them.

But for the cost of a bottle of dettol and just putting the models in a beaker of it for a few hours/days I can't see many would want to pay much for such a service when doing it at home is pretty easy.

It's a bit like shipping your model off to be undercoated; as part of an overall service like painting it up to table/display quality its great - but as a service on its own its too small a service for the potential costs to make it viable.


You might be able to get some trade though, a fair few people don't know how to strip and are afraid to try or don't want the bother of researching it.

Yeah, I regularly strip models with either Dettol or Nitromors, and have been for years. Plonking a bunch of models in a bath of Dettol for a few days is easy.

But then going over each one with a toothbrush and towels, scrubbing off paint, dipping and cleaning each one, plus trying to fish bits out of Dettol soup - I can do without that, especially when we're talking about 80/90 models.

So, does anyone know a service who offer to do all that for money?

So, it turns out that The Miniature Painting Service - http://www.iwantapaintedarmy.co.uk/services/paint-stripping-service - offer a paint stripping service, and would be happy to disassemble and strip the whole army!

Woohoo!

Now to start taking the bases off everything...!

ArbitorIan wrote:So, it turns out that The Miniature Painting Service - http://www.iwantapaintedarmy.co.uk/services/paint-stripping-service - offer a paint stripping service, and would be happy to disassemble and strip the whole army!

Woohoo!

Now to start taking the bases off everything...!

All I'm going to say is, given the thread title, google probably wasn't that helpful

 Leigen_Zero wrote:

ArbitorIan wrote:So, it turns out that The Miniature Painting Service - http://www.iwantapaintedarmy.co.uk/services/paint-stripping-service - offer a paint stripping service, and would be happy to disassemble and strip the whole army!

Woohoo!

Now to start taking the bases off everything...!

All I'm going to say is, given the thread title, google probably wasn't that helpful

I see what you did there!

*snigger*

Model stripping... services.

 Leigen_Zero wrote:

All I'm going to say is, given the thread title, google probably wasn't that helpful

I'm sure it was very helpful in finding certain services which involve stripping... maybe not of miniatures

Glad you found somewhere though... I'd love to find somewhere that will clean mould lines for me. I enjoy painting, abso-frakking-lutely hate cleaning mould lines. I've considered hanging out at the local gaming store and telling some random kid "I'll buy you a box of models if you clean the mould lines off these 50 necrons for me". Of course, the quality of work I'd get would probably be terrible, lol.

yeah

 Leigen_Zero wrote:
All I'm going to say is, given the thread title, google probably wasn't that helpful

I lolz'd... a fair bit of lolz in fact!

panic...

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 Leigen_Zero wrote:

All I'm going to say is, given the thread title, google probably wasn't that helpful

I'm sure it was very helpful in finding certain services which involve stripping... maybe not of miniatures

Glad you found somewhere though... I'd love to find somewhere that will clean mould lines for me. I enjoy painting, abso-frakking-lutely hate cleaning mould lines. I've considered hanging out at the local gaming store and telling some random kid "I'll buy you a box of models if you clean the mould lines off these 50 necrons for me". Of course, the quality of work I'd get would probably be terrible, lol.

Let me know if you do find anyone who'll take the mould lines off I'm in the same boat as you hate that job!! lol