Re: Stripping Miniatures - Again...

Maybe it's just all those government monthly safety briefing booklets
the
supervisor sent around instead of tying us up in monthly safety meetings
(Safepacks) (full of stories to fill volumes of candidate's for the
Darwin lists) but having been splashed	a few times in Chemistry
classes:

I hope you remember - Ventilation, ventilation, ventilation

Eye-goggles are a pain but if you are working with your face close to
the
brush (some do you know)...

Keep said brush away from pets (including children <grin>)

Okay, you get the point.  My supervisor would have made us don goggles
for the Pine Sol...

Gracias.
Glenn Wilson, Triple Threat Wargamer - (loses equally well in
SF/Fantasy/Historical Games.)  Prefers Fantasy Dwarves, Starguard
Science
Fiction, 1500-1700 North America Skirmishes, the First Crusade.

On Wed, 19 Apr 2000 08:46:36 -0500 bbrush@unlnotes.unl.edu writes:
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>I've been doing some paint stripping on some old mini's this week so I
>thought I'd put my two cents in.
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>I've used the 50/50 pine sol mix to strip figs and it works fine.  On 
>my
>latest batch of leads I decided to try something a little stronger;
>acetone.  Oh boy does it work better.	Dip the mini for about 5 
>minutes,
>then toothbrush it.  Dip the brush in the acetone and work any trouble
>spots.  Takes about 10 minutes per mini (or less).
>
>You can get acetone at your hardware store, and a quart will run you 
>about
>$5.  They sell it for thinning epoxy.
>
>Bill
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>  %50 pine sol and %50 water works well.  6-36hrs.  Will melt plastic
>miniatures if you leave them in too long.
>  I'd suspect coke or taco bell hot sauce would work as well, but 
>thats
>just a guess based on how well they eat through everything else...  :D
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>On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Scott Speiker wrote:
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>> Howdy all,
>>     I had read a post a while ago that pertained to stripping 
>miniatures
>of
>> the poor paint jobs that they currently have.  In the past I had 
>used
>laquer
>> thinner, which worked great.  However, I would like to use something 
>a
>> little less smelly and if my memory serves me right (often it 
>doesn't), I
>> believe that someone mentioned that you could soak the figures in
>dishwasher
>> detergent for a while and that would loosen the paint.
>>
>>     These figures are painted using Acrylic paints, but the 
>detergent did
>> not work for me.  If maybe there is something that someone can 
>suggest as
>> well as offer some idea of the concentration used to make it work, 
>the
>> gesture would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Scott Spieker
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