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I keep on hearing people say to use brake fluid to clean minis of thier paint and was wondering if you mean brake cleaner?

Definitely brake FLUID.

But do yourself a favor, and use Simple Green instead.

I'll echo the simple green comment. It's alot safer and works very well on metal (takes a bit longer on plastic though).

SUPER CLEAN is the best product I have ever used, I use it to maintain my Pache' airbrushes and it is amazing! You can soak models painted with GW paints in it, and a half hour toothbrush them totally clean! I have used Simple Green and Pinesol too, its good but this stuff is even better.

But the best part is, cleans with water! Oh yea, it works for plastics too! It's awesome. I once pealed the paintjob off of the front of an eldar model with this stuff as it turned the paint all rubbery in a few minutes. Superb. (Plus you can run it through an airbrush too!)

Good luck

Hrmm interesting. Do you have to scrub and scrub like you do with Simple green? How long does each mini take?

Posted By happypants on 06/06/2006 1:15 PM
I keep on hearing people say to use brake fluid to clean minis of thier paint and was wondering if you mean brake cleaner?

Neither. Use etanol, strips gw paint like a charm from plastic, metal, resin etc. etc.

migth soften greenstuff if left soaking to long.

i've used Castrol Super Clean and Simple Green. both are about the same, imo.

i stripped 5 tanks in the CSC. and 2 tanks and a bunch of figures.

but i let them soak for days. up to a week at times. the paint slid right off.

the only real problems i had was with primer in some cracks did require a bit of

scrubbing. old toothbrush works great. but the most important think was there

was no damage, melting, warping... everything came out great.

if you are stripping metal(pewter), acetone works really well. it will eat

the super glue. more like turn it to gel! it also turned the pewter a little

darker.

my 2 cents.

I'm going to toss on another vote for Castrol Super Clean. Works wonderfully, and several of my friends who used to use DOT-13 converted to CSC after getting much better results from it on their lead.

I'm a little worried about the Metal only cleaning methods. All of the models I am stripping were 2nd hand. I probably have 100 models in the tub atm. Have no idea which are metal+plastic and which are pure metal.