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Has anyone had any sucess on stripping paint from vehicles? My first Marine army was Ultramarines, however I've just recently done a battle company as Imperial Fists and would like to expand on it with some Land Raiders and additional predators. In the past I've used simple green on infantry sized models with sucess and I'm curious if anyone has tried it on vehicles?

I haven't tried it however there is no reason why it should not work as long as you have a big enough container to fit the vehicle in.

The main thing is to avoid using anything that damages plastic if you are stripping plastic. I think Simple Green is OK for plastic but you had better double check.

Simple Green works well on plastics.

On a side note, Pine Sol is NOT!!!! safe to use on plastics. Luckily for me I was stripping metal minis with Pine Sol so only the bases melted.

brake fluid also works well just clean the model w/ a degreaser like dish shoap before repainting

Watch out with Simple Green, I had left a few plastic termies ina vat of it too long and it melted them. Either way, prepare yourself for a long and annoying endevour, it takes forever to clean them. My personal tactic is to part them out per unit and sell them on eBay and start again.

I don't know how long you kept your models in Simple Green then, because I had my Eldar Wave Serpent in a bucket of roughly 10:1 Simple Green mix for a week and a half and it didn't so much as warp it. It cleaned off the paint very easily with a small tooth brush too.

The active ingredient in Simple Green is 2-butoxyethanol.

A bit of looking up in chemistry books should discover if that will dissolve polystyrene or ABS plastics.

I use either Castrol Super Clean or Purple Power. After a night of soaking both will loosen paint to the point where I can remove most of it with the jet setting on my detachable shower head.

I did six rhinos and a griffon using the method in the link below. Just find a container big enough.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/207485.page

I really need to try CSC at some point. I mostly use Simple Green, with Acetone on stubborn metals, but I keep hearing such good things about CSC that I need to try it.

In answer to the question: yes, you can strip the paint off of vehicles. Just use a bigger tub and more fluid. I got a Falcon with at least three distinct layers of paint more or less clean with simple green. It is easier if you can break the model down, some models assemble really solidly, others don't, but if you have one that you can jimmy apart it's a great help.

With metal models and Purple Power ( I don't know about CSC) you really only need to soak them a couple of hours. After that, the paint just peels off. Make sure you rinse them very well afterwards though. I've heard some people have trouble with the basecoat sticking afterwards if you don't

I've been using Simple Green for a long time, and use it for plastic vehicles. It's not perfect, but it's the best option I've found for PVs so far. One trick is that I use a heavier-duty brush- better scrubbing action without damaging details. Just be prepared for not being able to remove all of the paint. Sometimes with vehicles, depending on what sorts of paint were used, all you can hope to do is scrub away some of the excess and restore some details so you can re-prime.

I have found that it will degrade plastic eventually, but it was after I'd forgotten something in the jar for over a week, and even then all it did was make parts of it a little crumbly- no melting or anything.

CSC is the way to go. I had a buddy who worked briefly as a staff painter for Reaper and he introduced me to it like 5 years ago- I've never used anything else since.

I finally bought some Super Clean, and chucked in 4 eldar jetbikes that had refused to clean up after 3 days in simple green.

Three were white primed with some red paint still hiding out, these came out nearly pristine. the last had a shiny black primer that Simple Green left virutally untouched, and I got about 90% off with CSC.

Consider me another convert to CSC!