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I'm stripping some terminators that really have the paint glopped on them. So far they've been in dawn power spray, which is what I usually use. I've never used the brake fluid method and I'm curious as to how it compares to the dawn stuff. I've no doubt that the dawn will cut the mustard given a few more days for the tougher spots, but is the brake fluid any stronger?

I wouldn't mess with break fluid for environmental issues alone.

Go to walmart, go to the automotive section, get a big 5 gallon container of this stuff called super clean/purple power. It's an automotive degreaser. Strips anything in a matter of hours. If you've got metal figures just go with acetone. Superclean/Purple power is bio degradable, and acetone should be left outside to evaporate when you're finished with it.

One note, if you have sensitive skin, get some gloves for superclean. It will agitate your skin if you have your hands dunked in the stuff for an extended period of time. I skip the gloves, fill up a sink with water, then yank a figure out of a vat then scrub it underwater with a gun cleaning brush. Wham bam thank you m'am.

You can also get LA awesome cleaner from places such as a dollar general. Leave it in a small tub, and scrub it a bit after a few days and it will just sloshes right off the model.

Oven cleaner, so long is at it's *not* the "non-caustic" stuff, does a very fast, very effective job on both metal and plastic and greenstuff and resin without damaging any of it. Takes very little time as well; more like 30-60 minutes.

Wear gloves, spray models thickly, stick them in a plastic shopping bag, tie it up, leave (in the sun if you want it to happen faster) for up to an hour, then wash it off. Absolutely obliterates GW paints, but not Vallejo stuff, however if you've put the Vallejo over a primer or basecoat (including their ones), it will take that off easily so you basically get perfectly clean models once again.