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Hey guys, starting a painting project today to dial in the color scheme for some Relic Knights. This will be the first time I have used any of the Reaper Bones figures, and I doubt I am going to nail the effect I want the first 2 or even 3 times I paint it. So my question is this, what do people usually use to strip paint from the Bones line? Is a Simple Green soak going to do the job since the white resin is similar to FW and Finecrap, or am I going to have to get more aggressive with it?

Simple Green worked just fine for me (took minimal scrubbing after only a day or two soaking), but I was stripping Vallejo PU primer - haven't tried it with directly applied acrylics or other types of primer. Quick search on the Reaper forum suggests that it should do the trick.

I can;t see why Simple Green wouldn't work. It has worked on all the plastics and metals I have tried it on. (Though i heard a rumor it eats Finecast)

Thanks for the replies. I did my color tests and then dunked the figures in Simple Green for a few hours and the color came right off without any issues.

Whether paint comes of or not depends mostly on the paint / stripping agent combination, the model material plays only a secondary role. The more resistant your models, the uglier you can get with the paint stripper, so as long as you don't melt your minis, you're going to be fine.