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Hello together,

I know this question has been asked a lot and I searched for a whole day through various Forums/Reddit Posts etc.
In the end I couldnt find a clear answer what to use to strip paint from GW Resin without damaging the model.
As soon as I found two people swear X is the deal two other people swear X melts/ruins the model.

So maybe someone here got experience with stripping paint of GW Resin.

I've got a bottle of Greenstuff World's paint remover and it says on the bottle that it works on plastic, resin and metal. Email them if you need confirmation that it works on GW's resin, they'll tell you.

Slipstream wrote:
I've got a bottle of Greenstuff World's paint remover and it says on the bottle that it works on plastic, resin and metal. Email them if you need confirmation that it works on GW's resin, they'll tell you.

Did you try it out on Resin?

resin are brittle than plastic and metal, so scrub with hand held toothbrush lightly, don't use electric toothbrush or vigorously.

concentrated cleaning solutions such as 'purple power' will be safe for all resin/plastic/metal; soak for a week+ and lightly scrub and rinse. Once dry you can soak in 91% isopropyl alcohol for under 30 minutes and lightly scrub and rinse; make sure you wear disposable gloves.

pro tip: put your squads together in a zipbag and poke with holes for the solution or alcohol to work but keep the bits together, otherwise you will lose small bits. soak in 1/2 gallon or smaller lidded containers, especially the isopropyl alcohol, if left uncovered, it evaporates.

 Big Mac wrote:
resin are brittle than plastic and metal, so scrub with hand held toothbrush lightly, don't use electric toothbrush or vigorously.

concentrated cleaning solutions such as 'purple power' will be safe for all resin/plastic/metal; soak for a week+ and lightly scrub and rinse. Once dry you can soak in 91% isopropyl alcohol for under 30 minutes and lightly scrub and rinse; make sure you wear disposable gloves.

pro tip: put your squads together in a zipbag and poke with holes for the solution or alcohol to work but keep the bits together, otherwise you will lose small bits. soak in 1/2 gallon or smaller lidded containers, especially the isopropyl alcohol, if left uncovered, it evaporates.

Where I live there is no "purple power". How do I know what a equivalent would be? About the 91% iso: Like I mentioned in the first post, this was one of the things a lot of people mentioned not to use for resin because it can can get damaged.

HeIlsing wrote:

 Big Mac wrote:
resin are brittle than plastic and metal, so scrub with hand held toothbrush lightly, don't use electric toothbrush or vigorously.

concentrated cleaning solutions such as 'purple power' will be safe for all resin/plastic/metal; soak for a week+ and lightly scrub and rinse. Once dry you can soak in 91% isopropyl alcohol for under 30 minutes and lightly scrub and rinse; make sure you wear disposable gloves.

pro tip: put your squads together in a zipbag and poke with holes for the solution or alcohol to work but keep the bits together, otherwise you will lose small bits. soak in 1/2 gallon or smaller lidded containers, especially the isopropyl alcohol, if left uncovered, it evaporates.

Where I live there is no "purple power". How do I know what a equivalent would be? About the 91% iso: Like I mentioned in the first post, this was one of the things a lot of people mentioned not to use for resin because it can can get damaged.

Look for concentrated floor mopping cleaning solution, try out a small bottle with a test model if you’re not sure. About the isopropyl: that’s why I list at under 30 minutes, as long as you’re not soaking overnight you’re good.

Some people prime their miniatures in car primer enamel based, so the above solutions will not strip it, enamel stripping solution eats plastic and resin, so you have to watch how long you soak.

Isopropyl can soften resin. Not melt it, but make it turn rubbery.

I would use Simple Green. While it's much weaker than isopropyl nowadays at removing paint, paint doesn't stick to resin as well as to plastic, so it comes off more readily. I've stripped a variety of Forge World models with it, and the only damage I've ever observed came from a mini that was stripped about ten times in a row and then left to soak for a few months (it got a bit softer).

I have just stripped a bunch of models using 'clean spirit'. It cost £4 from a local hardware store. I soaked them for a couple of days and then used a spare toothbrush to scrub off the paint. There is a very small amount of paint remaining but it's lost immediately once recoated. Only thing to make sure you do is give the model a couple of days to dry out before re-priming, which allows any remaining paint that could not be removed to re-adhere to the plastic.

No damage to plastic - what I will say it that some models had not been spray undercoated and these went back to bare plastic. The models which had been spray undercoated were stripped of paint but not the undercoat. I'm assuming this is down to the chemical composition of the paint.

I have heard dettol works too, but the benefit of the clean spirit was that you were able to rinse the model under water while brushing off the paint (much easier to see what you're doing). You cannot do this with dettol as the water reacts and causes the dettol / paint mix and clumps up on the model.

Hope that helps!

HeIlsing wrote:

Slipstream wrote:
I've got a bottle of Greenstuff World's paint remover and it says on the bottle that it works on plastic, resin and metal. Email them if you need confirmation that it works on GW's resin, they'll tell you.

Did you try it out on Resin?

I used this on some forge world noise marines which I think are resin.

It did make them brittle where the resin was thin but I did not read the instructions and they sat in the solution for way too long. So probably be fine if you read the instructions but I agree, email GSW and tell them what model you are stripping

It’s a really good paint remover

I soak them for about 10-15 minutes in isopropyl alcohol, then scrub them with a toothbrush and more isopropyl (wear gloves) this doesnt give them time to soften