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JoeyFox wrote:

Litteraly a Gallon of Awesome!

Is this a paint stripper of some kind?

RSJake wrote:

JoeyFox wrote:

Litteraly a Gallon of Awesome!

Is this a paint stripper of some kind?

YES.

MOTHER OF GOD DOES IT WORK. I just went out and bought 2 more bottles and dumped like $1,000 worth of sisters, orks, and IG lol.
8 hours in the stuff? Paint came RIGHT off the sister of battle model, and was mostly coming off the plastic ork. I put everything I wanted stripped into it. My god does it work.
I'll pull them out tomorrow morning and clean them of as much paint as I can. Those that don't get done go for a 2nd ride.

8 hours man.

You have sparked my intrest good sir! I have been using Simple Green, and while it does work, it seems to take a long time. Although it does smell nice

At what establishment may one find and purchase said bottle of Awesome?

I'm talking like a goofus, sorry, been a long day.

RSJake wrote:You have sparked my intrest good sir! I have been using Simple Green, and while it does work, it seems to take a long time. Although it does smell nice

At what establishment may one find and purchase said bottle of Awesome?

I'm talking like a goofus, sorry, been a long day.

Dollar General - $3

brb /going to Dollar General

Stupid livin' in the sticks Montana! Not even a Dollar General in the state! *kicks a rock*

I see it on amazon, I guess I'll have to order the Awesome!

Here are some of my test strips.



I just cleaned 100+ models, but I had to dunk them again because some people like to use to much paint...

Yes, the guardsman in the middle is stripped...amazing eh?
No detail loss after a 12 hour dip...Going onto 24+ now.

Nice! You can barely tell they ever had any paint on them! That stuff is Awesome!

*edit*

After extensive searching, I did locate a local store that carries the Awesome! I plan to head over there soon! Coincidentally, it is right around the corner from a hobby store I wanted to go to anyway!
Coincidence??? Or Fate??? (Spooky music: Dun Dun Duunnnnnnn.)

RSJake wrote:Nice! You can barely tell they ever had any paint on them! That stuff is Awesome!

*edit*

After extensive searching, I did locate a local store that carries the Awesome! I plan to head over there soon! Coincidentally, it is right around the corner from a hobby store I wanted to go to anyway!
Coincidence??? Or Fate??? (Spooky music: Dun Dun Duunnnnnnn.)

Fate!

Also...metal it lets go of easier - if the painter did a good job. A good paint job comes off easier.

A bad paint job? I have some guard and some of the sisters that seem to have 5+ layers of paint...and on some models...not just GW paint...but cheap spray paint, nylon paint or w/e its called...when it eventually lets go and falls off, it comes off like a rubber mold rather than paint.

Well then, wish me luck! I have some plastic Berzerkers I bought off ebay and some of them, the paint disolves in water, and some are STILL soaking in Simple Green. I put them in there 3 months ago! Also they used some wierd glue that is harder than rock, and won't even chip off! I don't know what I am going to with those, but hopfully I can get the paint off.

Let this be a lesson to others, don't buy painted minis online unless the price is so good you don't ind spending extra time to clean them off!

The More You Know!

RSJake wrote:Well then, wish me luck! I have some plastic Berzerkers I bought off ebay and some of them, the paint disolves in water, and some are STILL soaking in Simple Green. I put them in there 3 months ago! Also they used some wierd glue that is harder than rock, and won't even chip off! I don't know what I am going to with those, but hopfully I can get the paint off.

Let this be a lesson to others, don't buy painted minis online unless the price is so good you don't ind spending extra time to clean them off!

The More You Know!

Glue might not come off entirely, something I noticed is super glue actually leeches the pigment from ink...and will stick tight. With totally awesome, with a 12 or so hour soak, most glue will let go. I got a boy in similar shape to your zerkers...so Ill be finding out if a multi-day soak works on the glue like i heard. If it does, your in luck.

I await your results anxiously! Good luck!

P.S. I'll be getting the Jug of Awesome whether it takes off the glue or not. I'm running out of Simple Green, and this stuff is less expensive!

Metal minis are super easy to clean BAD paint jobs out of the crevasses with a dremel and wire wheel, you'll destroy the wire wheel, but the mini will be polished like new

A good thing to know! I have a few that could benefit from that treatment!

I stripped the baddest of BAD paint from some Valhallans. It took 5 Valhallans to kill one wire wheel after the Valhallans had already soaked in Simple Green for a week. But I won on victory points in the end.

I can not emphasis how badly you need to wear gloves. I used it for 3 hours with no gloves. My right hand is currently dry, cracked, and ready to bleed.

I am an idiot.

GLOVES
WEAR GLOVES IF YOU WORK EXTENSIVELY WITH LA'S TOTALLY AWESOME
WEAR GLOVES
GLOVES

Ewww, did your skin get all nurgly?

if so post pics of nurgley skin, TIA

Ah yes...gloves.

Gloves = Good.

I wear gloves when I use diluted Mr. Clean. I always use my dishwasher 'cause I hate doing dishes by hand 'cause it makes my skin all pruney. I feel sorry for your Nurgly hand...ick. I'd almost advize cream...but would that maybe burn? I know Aloe gels set me on fire. o_O

Doom! Doom!! DOOM!!!

So, should I wear gloves do you think?

RSJake wrote:Doom! Doom!! DOOM!!!

So, should I wear gloves do you think?

Is Sol's inner pressure approximately 250 billion bar at any one given point?

Of course!

Grr stupid append... I'll jest wait.

I just picked up some of that Awesome junk today, gonna strip some Chaos Spess Marines.

Update!

While stripping a chimera...I stopped half-way brushing it. I need feed back! Do I finish stripping it...or leave it as is, and use it for Zombie Platoon Command Chimera? I figured the paint mix (and some of it bubbled, twisted, textured, and messy) once primed, would give an interesting texture. GS some other extra rot in maybe, glue some very fine sand for grime and grunge... then paint it back up. Should look appropriately nurgly...do you agree?






Also some strip examples.

Stripped. I noted some things WOULD NOT let go of paint color. Whatever they got based with stuck to it. A friend said it was because the models got hot in cars, the pigment baked to the top layer of the plastic... maybe it is true, as everything but some black would come off... but it is thinner than you can actually paint. So re-priming over it will NOT be an issue. This is after a 36+ hour soak, I still have more models going. I figured these were good enough to move on with taking them out. A few solid black guardsmen seemed to have been primed with off the shelf spray paint............


Old Immolator pre-strip in background. Rest of that army is stripping now. Its honestly ready to come off...but I can't brush anymore today!


Beast Men - Guardsmen conversions. They were nice but not mine, so Im stripping, reposing some, giving them all lasguns/special weapons, repainting. Make them my own. These guys WOULD NOT let their black up.
I have..photos somewhere...trying to find...will update this post with them when i do.

An old battery-powered toothbrush should help you to strip that gunk off (after it is soaked in liquid awesome of course)

dsteingass wrote:An old battery-powered toothbrush should help you to strip that gunk off (after it is soaked in liquid awesome of course)

I have one, and was in the process of doing it. The question I had was: Do I keep whats left on their for a rotten texture?

I think it will just look like a chunky paintjob if you leave it.

I say leave it! It will look cool for zombies!

RSJake wrote:I say leave it! It will look cool for zombies!

Definately keep it

I decided to strip it. I had several friends warn me the now exposed to stripping paint will make holding issues. I can also do just as good if not better with more tried and true methods.

Make sure you rinse off the awesome residue before you prime it too, you don't want that stuff fermenting under your paint.