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Have any of you guys out there got any or have heard of any tips or ways to remove old citadel paint from plastic kits ?

In the UK, regular brown dettol is pretty good. A soak for 30 minutes to 24 hours (depending on the age and thickness of paint) and a scrub with an old toothbrush should get most of it off - a re-soak and scrub should get the rest off.

Alternatively, use Fairy power spray.

cheers fella il give that a try !

If there is any PVA on the base, remove it before soaking/spraying your models as it turns into a horrific goop that gets everywhere and is a pain in the bum to get rid of.

will do thanks for that !
its a few old drop pods and rhino's that i was given for free of a mate. but they have been painted that many times that they have lost a lot of detail so wanted to try n clean all the crap paint work off them !

Dettol would be better purely as you get double for your money, but it does smell for quite some time after, I did have around 6 bottles of Fairy power spray in a gallon drum with the top cut off, but it has now turned into a big lump of semi solid mess!, so i have had to use my dettol in the glass jars for the last lot of stripping.

For speed smell and use i much prefer FPS though

I have been using Dettol, I've used Acetone (not on plastics obv xD), etc but that recently went funny and I caved and got some Fairy Power Spray.
I have no intention of going back.

Had a Fabius Bile that would not come clean, even after days in stripping agents. (dettol would not do it, the acetone wouldn't do it!, gods knows what unholy excrement of a paint was used to paint him.)
The Fairy Power Spray stripped him down to bare metal inside of 20 minutes, with only a few sprays.

I feel doubly for Rhinos and Drop Pods it will be better as you can just spray it along the sides, leave it 10-30 minutes then scrub it off with a toothbrush.

Go to Tescos or Morrisons (I don't believe many other supermarkets stock it - Asda doesn't) and grab some, and a Hard Bristle or 'Smokers' Toothbrush, then you're pretty set.

FAIRY POWER SPRAY!

DON'T use Dettol, Power Spray is waaaaaaaaaaaaay better.

+1 for Fairy Power Spray. I used it to clean a few minis earlier in the year and it worked a treat. Just don't use the toothbrush again.

Brake fluid. Get a bottle of dot 4 for about 6 quid and pour it back in the bottle and reuse it again and again.

i use nail varnish remover for some of mine

 sierra 1247 wrote:
i use nail varnish remover for some of mine

For the record, this is fine for metal models, and a bad, bad plan for plastics.

Yeah was gona say acetone in nail varnish remover would just turn plastic into a sticky blob !

 SilverMK2 wrote:
If there is any PVA on the base, remove it before soaking/spraying your models as it turns into a horrific goop that gets everywhere and is a pain in the bum to get rid of.

PVA always STAYS water soluble. Warm water gets rid of it.

 gumball wrote:
Yeah was gona say acetone in nail varnish remover would just turn plastic into a sticky blob !

Most nail polish remover these days is acetone free. Having said that, I have no idea what effect whatever they have replaced it with will do to plastics, so still best to stay away from it unless you have an unimportant model you are willing to try it on.

I am also a Fairy Powerspray fan. And as I have an Oral B electric toothbrush, one of the ones that go round and up and down, not the newer side to side model, I use an old head on that and stuff comes off really easy. I think some of that is the bristles actually getting under the paint and lifting it off. Never had any problems with that set-up, paint comes off no matter what type and there has been no damage to any models, metal, resin, plastic, or vinyl. I even left a vinyl model in it for about a month, still no damage to the model. About the only thing I haven't tried is Finecast.