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Made in us
Fresh-Faced New User




I've just recently started getting into the hobby, and after learning a bit more, decided to strip my first (very bad) mini; don't worry, I took pictures so I'd have a record of where I started.

Anyway, I used LA's Totally Awesome, and the paints came off easily. However, it looks like the primer is still very much on the mini, *or* the primer stained the plastic to the point where the color is simply not going to change any more. Frankly, I can't tell. For reference, I used Tamiya gray spray primer.

Should I prime it again to be safe, continue to try to strip the primer with some other product, or is it cool for me to just start painting again?

Thanks!
   
Made in us
Grumpy Longbeard






Id imagine that the purpose of stripping is to remove old tick layers that clogged up the detail and textured the surface.

As long as the smooth areas are un-texturted and the details are crispy you should be good.

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Fireknife Shas'el






Take a wooden toothpick and rub at the primer (so you don't unduly scratch the resin/plastic), this should tell you if it's a stain or if the primer is actually left over.

You can always run it through another bath in the paint stripper, I've had minis that took several passes to get most of the stuff off.

In general, you almost never get 100% of the primer off unless you're stripping a mini immediately after priming. If Totally Awesome has no effect on your primer, you might as well not re-prime it, especially if you're using paints developed for minis (GW's base paints and Vallejo Game Color are quite durable on their own).

   
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Fireknife Shas'el





Leicester

To be honest, if there’s a decent primer surface left after stripping I skip re-priming and go straight to painting. Don’t forget the purpose of priming is to give a key for the actual paint to adhere to, so if it’s already doing that, why waste the time? Just be sure to have washed the mini thoroughly to remove any of your paint stripper.

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Made in gb
Fresh-Faced New User





Hi,

New to the hobby also,

I bought a joblot off ebay to get myself started and have been stripping some models with a product called biostrip 2.0

I been having good results with it, it works almost straight away but you can leave it for a few hours, haven't noticed any damage/ plastic melting or going soft after leaving it for much longer than i should

I have noticed myself that sometimes the primer seems to stain the plastic, as long as it's not peeling off any more after a good clean with the toothbrush and the details are clear i leave it like that - I have been re priming them after being cleaned though but that's maybe not needed. hmm

If your cleaning space marines like me then it can also just be the plastic frame color, that one got me to start with - cleaning an ultra marine painted blue/primed blue and blue plastic frame.........must be some grey under there somewhere.... must clean more

Goodluck!
   
Made in us
Longtime Dakkanaut





 Fat Cat Collector wrote:
Hi,

New to the hobby also,

I bought a joblot off ebay to get myself started and have been stripping some models with a product called biostrip 2.0

I been having good results with it, it works almost straight away but you can leave it for a few hours, haven't noticed any damage/ plastic melting or going soft after leaving it for much longer than i should

I have noticed myself that sometimes the primer seems to stain the plastic, as long as it's not peeling off any more after a good clean with the toothbrush and the details are clear i leave it like that - I have been re priming them after being cleaned though but that's maybe not needed. hmm

If your cleaning space marines like me then it can also just be the plastic frame color, that one got me to start with - cleaning an ultra marine painted blue/primed blue and blue plastic frame.........must be some grey under there somewhere.... must clean more

Goodluck!


Bio strip 20 is good stuff, it’s my go to for stripping minis.
   
 
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