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For paint stripping?

I mean, it will take rust off nails so... What will it do to a plastic mini with acrylic paint?

I feel like someone should test this and inform us...

Interesting question. I am in the middle of stripping a load of minis and have some coke so I will give it a crack. Should be amusing if nothing else!

 ingtaer wrote:
Interesting question. I am in the middle of stripping a load of minis and have some coke so I will give it a crack. Should be amusing if nothing else!

Awesome! My friends and I were joking about how bad pop is for you while we drank it and the light bulb clicked.

Actually that's a lie. I was by myself...

Cant imagine it will do anything bar get the model all gummy, but lets find out for sure.

...

Only in death does duty end.

Okay, here we go.

This is Tim the drummer boy, he has been sentenced to death by sugar for not only wearing the wrong uniform but also for being blurry.


Whilst he has cured the blurriness he is still in the wrong uniform and thus must be drowned.


Alas poor Tim may your demise be a sugary one.


What do we reckon, check after 24hrs?

24h sounds good.
Should be interesting how much comes off scrubbing.

Coke dissolves rust because it contains phosphoric acid. You can actually find pure phosphoric acid in hardware stores, sold as a rust remover. So if you're after this chemical, using Coke is pointless, as it also contains a ton of sugar and some other additives.
Anyway, it's a weak acid, and acids in general aren't very useful for stripping paint.

I don't think much will happen over 24h. If you get your mini out and rinse it, you'll hardly see any effect from the soaking.

Always...

craggy wrote:
Always...

Ha!


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Well let's hope we haven't consigned poor Tim to a sugary death for nothing...

I'm skeptical this will work alone.. perhaps a 50/50 mix of coke plus something else.

Isn't acrylic plastic based?

I vote that if Tim survives we put him back in the coke and this time, we add some booze. Something high test. Whiskey or Rum.

And if that doesn't work try muddling him with mint and a hint of lime.

This might be a shaken, not stirred kind of recipe...

I second the booze option! It will have to be whiskey though cause I hate rum.

Honestly i wonder if ever clear or ethanol would do anything to acrylic paint.

Ethanol does. It strips the plasticiser out of some plastics (polymer+plasticiser chains) and acrylic paints are a form of plastic. They form a tight skin over the surface you have painted.

Isopropyl alcohol will strip acrylic paints (it's the majority component of dettol), but so will methanol and methylated ethanol.

You need a pretty high percentage of alcohol, though. Common whiskys and rums aren't high enough. We're talking moonshine-send-you-blind levels.

Forgot to report in last night after the 24hrs were up (actually was busy playing x-wing), the result? Nothing, nada, zip, zilch, zero. If anything Tim looks cleaner than before. I have re-immersed him and will leave him there for a week. Though I don't expect anything to happen, but at least we will know.

On the alcohol for stripping, chromedog has the right of it. I frequently use the first run out of my still to strip models.

Well at least he came out clean. A lot of guys fall into the bottle and don't come back out. Not Tim.

Curiousity sated. Thanks dude!

We'll check back in a week and see how the little fellow does.

 ingtaer wrote:
Forgot to report in last night after the 24hrs were up (actually was busy playing x-wing), the result? Nothing, nada, zip, zilch, zero. If anything Tim looks cleaner than before. I have re-immersed him and will leave him there for a week. Though I don't expect anything to happen, but at least we will know.

On the alcohol for stripping, chromedog has the right of it. I frequently use the first run out of my still to strip models.

Don't forget to add booze to the coke.

To the coke? I added booze to myself!

Be careful when stripping miniatures as many paint strippers will also dissolve the mini itself if its made of plastic.

Sodas are fine at clearing light rust off of metal, but their acid content isn't going to clear paint very well. Get some actual paint stripper, save the soda for yourself, and be very careful about what type of stripper you use with what miniatures.

To be honest, the tried and tested methods are still the best really.

I've found that 99%-100% alcohol does quite well at removing acrylic paint though you need to wear gloves while using it or at least use a heavy duty moisturizer afterwards as it will dry your skin out like nothing else and will cause skin cracking too often.

Dettol is one of the ultimate options though it does stink the house out a bit

For a safer option, we've found that Dialls paint stripper is brilliant, it's a gel so you can liberally paint it on the miniature rather than soak it and the miniature will be ready to scrub within a few hours rather than a day, plus it has the added benefits of being perfectly safe to use and smells like almonds!

Cola on the other hand, just drink the stuff while you wait for the paint to start lifting off the miniature, all it's going to do is make your miniature sticky

And as always, use washing up liquid as a glue for removing the paint with a toothbrush (Electric is better), the moment you use water alone you effectively reactivate the paint and it will just restick to the miniature.

Never knew that about water and sticking to paint. I always use water. I'll try dish soap.

 darkcloak wrote:
I vote that if Tim survives we put him back in the coke and this time, we add some booze. Something high test. Whiskey or Rum.

And if that doesn't work try muddling him with mint and a hint of lime.

This might be a shaken, not stirred kind of recipe...

If even this fails to work, give ol' Tim an actual line of coke instead. It may not affect his paint all that much, but he'll have had one heck of a week!

 Supershandy wrote:
To be honest, the tried and tested methods are still the best really.

I've found that 99%-100% alcohol does quite well at removing acrylic paint though you need to wear gloves while using it or at least use a heavy duty moisturizer afterwards as it will dry your skin out like nothing else and will cause skin cracking too often.

Dettol is one of the ultimate options though it does stink the house out a bit

For a safer option, we've found that Dialls paint stripper is brilliant, it's a gel so you can liberally paint it on the miniature rather than soak it and the miniature will be ready to scrub within a few hours rather than a day, plus it has the added benefits of being perfectly safe to use and smells like almonds!

Cola on the other hand, just drink the stuff while you wait for the paint to start lifting off the miniature, all it's going to do is make your miniature sticky

And as always, use washing up liquid as a glue for removing the paint with a toothbrush (Electric is better), the moment you use water alone you effectively reactivate the paint and it will just restick to the miniature.

I've finally got some models to strip, so this is useful advice. Any particular kind of dettol? Do you need to remove bases with dettol? I'm stripping metal.

Brown Dettol Antiseptic (contains Chloroxylenol) and no need to remove bases. It strips plastic, resin and metal equally well. The only down side is the smell. be sure to wear rubber gloves though.


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This stuff;
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/255280109

 ingtaer wrote:
Brown Dettol Antiseptic (contains Chloroxylenol) and no need to remove bases. It strips plastic, resin and metal equally well. The only down side is the smell. be sure to wear rubber gloves though.


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This stuff;
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/255280109

Thanks!

No problems. As Supershandy wrote above; "And as always, use washing up liquid as a glue for removing the paint with a toothbrush (Electric is better), the moment you use water alone you effectively reactivate the paint and it will just restick to the miniature." I always use more Dettol to rinse off the mini and if needed take a tooth pick to any nooks and crannies where the brush didn't reach.

 ingtaer wrote:
To the coke? I added booze to myself!

It's like science, but tastier!

Only thing coke is good for is rotting your insides and softening tough steaks.

But thanks for testing anyway you mad man.

 Supershandy wrote:


For a safer option, we've found that Dialls paint stripper is brilliant, it's a gel so you can liberally paint it on the miniature rather than soak it and the miniature will be ready to scrub within a few hours rather than a day, plus it has the added benefits of being perfectly safe to use and smells like almonds!

Safe on plastics? We've bought some recently for doing some renovation in the house!