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In my early days painting of too many coats I ruined a few good marines. Now science wants you to write this off as a chemical reaction but that's heresy, any loyal servant of The Emperor recognizes that these traitor marines were warped.

http://imgur.com/gallery/sxK2h

Appropriate re-purposing there. I've been doing similar with some of my old 2nd edition plastics and the oddballs I've gotten in Ebay lots that would be too tedious to recover for the glory of the Emperor.

Sometimes that taint runs deep.

I've also found that sculpting some Nurgle iconography on the shoulder pads helps a lot as well and helps break up the monotony of the old poses. Cutting the arm all the way off to replace the pad gets old fast.

Looks good.

Just in case you didn't know, brake fluid will remove almost any amount of acrylic paint without affecting the models in any way. After letting them soak overnight you can just use a toothbrush and a little Dawn dish soap to remove the paint and excess oils. I melted a marine one time using Oops to remove the paint and its now a casualty from a flamer.

 JohnDoe1990 wrote:
Just in case you didn't know, brake fluid will remove almost any amount of acrylic paint without affecting the models in any way. After letting them soak overnight you can just use a toothbrush and a little Dawn dish soap to remove the paint and excess oils. I melted a marine one time using Oops to remove the paint and its now a casualty from a flamer.

And Simple Green will do the same thing without giving you cancer!

Brake fluid won't give you cancer. Unless you live in California (where everything will give you cancer) or are a white rat (because the genepool is soooo inbred in the lab rats, that they develop cancer at the drop of a hat).

It'll just feth up your joints and make you look like your hands are made of walnuts.
(Just look at any old mechanic's hands).

MEK WILL (but it will do other crap too - like completely dissolve styrenes) give you cancer, though - and make your offspring deformed, and explode if you use it wrong.

I use simple green for stripping paint and have always had good results with it.

Unlike brake fluid it's user friendly and I once left a model in it for over 3 months.

Took the model out, a light scrub with a toothbrush, paint all gone and model good as new.