Re: [Modelling] Information Request: Paint Removal

I'm used a cleaner named "Simple Green" to remove paint from plastic 
and metal minis. I typically let the figure soak for a day or two with 
no ill effects and even left several GW plastic minis soaking for over 
two weeks by accident without a problem. The paint doesn't dissolve as 
readily as it did with brake fluid, but then again the cleaner 
mentioned above didn't eat my bare skin either. Best of all is Simple 
Green is suppose to be biodegradable.

I've never tried plastics with brake fluid. One one to see is take a 
discarded piece of sprue from similar types of minis (you got to have 
some in a parts box right?) :)	and give that a test to see what 
happens.

Kevin

On Monday, Dec 2, 2002, at 01:24 US/Central, Thomas Barclay wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I want to repaint some old Games OrcShop
> GeneBorrowers. They're made of some kind of
> plastic (sorry Chris, can't tell you what kind...
> whatever old space-hulk figs were made from).
> Now, I've used brake fluid very successfully to
> remove paint from FSE white metal figs, and
> acetone to remove the epoxy holding them to
> washers. But I suspect acetone would eat the
> plastic. What about the brake fluid though? Will
> it eat the plastic? Can anyone speak semi-
> authoritatively on this?