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Can't remember where I read it but apprently the old stick it in pine oil based disinfectant stripping process doesnt work well with the finecast resin? Just wanted a definitive answer on it before I bite and buy a second hand army with stuff which are finecast in it.

I have heard NO stories of successfully stripping Finecast.
Avoid it second hand.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/486389.page

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/463056.page

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/433025.page

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/463868.page

All with at least one success story in them.

I have found finecast much like plastic when using 'simple green'.

Metal goes down to the bare metal every time. Often plastic I only get 'most' of it but sometimes there is a thin, indistinguishable layer of paint on it which is usually fine.

I did strip 2 models, and it was similar to plastic, it got a good portion off, enough IMHO for me to re-prime and re-paint without loss of detail. I guess it depends how gross the paint is caked on. I was satisfied with it but I am not sure I would go out of my way to find finecast second-hand.

I feel like the issue isn't with the priming but the vigorous scrubbing where you may damage the model.

Some people think part of the impetus to Finecast was to eliminate the second hand market by making paint removal impossible.

I have no personal comment to make on it.

Wouldnt doubt it if thats the real reason for finecast. Quite frankly i see little to no detail difference between plastic and resin, but theres a huge difference in handling the stuff.
Plastic i have dropped so many times its sickening, it usually bounces or breaks on the shoulder or some other easy to reglue spot. Resin im paranoid im gonna snap the stuff just by handling it let alone if i drop it.

Thankfully ive never had to strip the stuff. I avoid painting things that i might want to strip till i have painted something similar (technique-wise anyway) that is easy to redo. Took me forever to finally paint my Ghazghkull Thraka model.

This does not sound promising at all really, think I'll avoid it as theres a lot of stuff which is finecast in the lot, if I get any figures in the stuff in any joblots which are expendable I may experiment in the furture though.

Thanks for the responses, certainly makes me stop and think exactly what I'll be doing with a finecast chaos lord I got stupidly cheap with intent on cenverting for a BSB.

I have -mostly- stripped a finecast hive guard with simple green 1:1 with water and only soaking about a day. It wasn't perfect, but it didn't effect the subsequent re-prime and repaint much.

You have to do it as gentle as possible.

Keep in mind that whatever brush you use to scrub the model is probably stiff enough to tear into the soft resin that GW uses.

You can try some simple green and a sonic scrubber, if you have one. It will agitate without the scrubbing by brush.

I can't vouch for results, i have not dipped my toes in the Finecast waters after all of the negative results i've seen online and real world.

But the scrubber works on jewelry, airbrushes, etc. I don't see why it wouldn't have decent results. Plus, it's not a bad item to have around. You can get a halfway decent one on Amazon for about $40.

vinsal wrote:
You can try some simple green and a sonic scrubber, if you have one. It will agitate without the scrubbing by brush.

I can't vouch for results, i have not dipped my toes in the Finecast waters after all of the negative results i've seen online and real world.

But the scrubber works on jewelry, airbrushes, etc. I don't see why it wouldn't have decent results. Plus, it's not a bad item to have around. You can get a halfway decent one on Amazon for about $40.

I have a supersonic cleaner and filled it with simple green, and put a commissar finecast model in there that I'd goofed up on. I got it sort of mostly kinda clean. There's still mostly primer sticking to it, and some of the paint refuses to come off, but a lot of it did get removed.

Jeez, don't have a cow, man! As you're in the UK, it's as easy as sin!

Get down to Morrisons, Tesco, or wherever, buy a bottle of "Fairy Powerspray" and stop worrying. I've stripped standard plastic, metal, resin, and vinyl models with it and never had any damage to any of them. I even left a Screamin' models "Elvira" figure (Vinyl) ijn it for about a month and there was no damage to the model itself.

I soak for a couple of hours, sometimes overnight, then use an old head on my electric toothbrush to just go in and lift the paint right off. Rinse with water, dry by putting it on kitchen towel, and you are where your should be having washed mould release off a new model - or near enough, anyway.