How To Strip Paint Off Resin Miniatures

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Is it possible to strip a resin model without damaging/warping the model using my regular stripping chemic Simple Green or is this as well harsh on the resin?

If there is some other method to strip resin models without harming the resin itself, I am open up to proposition.

You tin strip resin with pretty much anything you lot utilize to strip plastic.

Yup, i did that with my FW avatar. Didn't impairment the model at all.

Skilful to know i ordinarily avoid buying second paw resin miniatures on eBay.

But don't you lot normally take scrape the last bits past paw?

Alright, cracking, simply needed to know considering you don't want to end upward regretting the fact that you screwed up/rushed your painting because you know you'll terminate upwards scoring the model if you attempt to start over once again.

Thanks for the advice.

If you apply a soft toothbrush it should not do any impairment to the model.

Pipboy101 wrote:If you use a soft toothbrush it should not do any damage to the model.

Yeah, but sometimes I find y'all need a pin to clear the recesses. Too the great britain version of elementary greenish is a flake weaker

If you utilize one of the new peachy sonic tooth brushes- when you lot're about to toss out the old used upward brush end- save it.

You lot can apply it for detail cleaning miniatures

Combined with a soak in some uncomplicated light-green or super clean y'all can get those pesky bits out of the recesses pretty piece of cake. Probly works great on dentures too

Polyurethane resins are pretty durable from a chemic standpoint, anything you put on them that would harm them signifigantly is going to practise far worse things to human mankind- so, if its ok on y'all skin, its ok for resin.

Just and so you know, when some pigment strippers you apply might besides dissolve superglue. Continue that in mind when strippng resin.

Just so you know, when some pigment strippers you use might as well deliquesce superglue. Keep that in listen when strippng resin.

lol I bought some off make graffiti remover and let some models soak in it for a few days and luckily the mucilage didn't deliquesce simply the greenish stuff did

Commander Endova wrote:Only so yous know, when some pigment strippers you employ might also dissolve superglue. Go on that in listen when strippng resin.

TBH I take never seen Simple Green do anything to super glue, and when i'm stripping models with too much super mucilage around the joints (some GK models require most of my attention) I accept to dig it out with a knife or my hobby cutters - a hurting in the backside if you ask me. If there's a stripping amanuensis that doesn't harm plastic but dissolves/softens super glue i'd be HAPPY to become my hands on some. Usually when I want to strip metal model I break them into their individual pieces so I get all the gunk out of the joints and make certain there's no remainder pigment/glue that'southward there to clot up the sharp joints.

Unproblematic green doesnt do much to super gum.

But SuperClean nomnoms superglue Trust me- it really does.

Dunno if they sell Super Clean in Australia, never seen it earlier, even at Bunnings...

Try Kmart.

It's an engine de-greaser.

We have Castrol, yous might just have to await for it a fleck.
My local stocks it - by I use brake fluid to strip models (as nigh of the 2nd paw ones I go are metal).

chromedog wrote:Try Kmart.

It'due south an engine de-greaser.

We take Castrol, you might just take to look for information technology a fleck.
My local stocks information technology - by I use brake fluid to strip models (every bit most of the second hand ones I get are metallic).

Castrol Super Make clean is the full name of the "super clean'" i used with great success in the past.

Castrol doesnt own the proper noun any more- http://www.superclean.com/alphabetize.php

Not sure almost its availability overseas- just I dropped a bunch of cadians (that looked like they had been dipped in super glue and rolled in bits) in a bucket of this stuff for a couple days, and they just sorta fall apart when you lot castor the paint off them.

It has a nice citrus-y scent also- only- article of clothing gloves, dries out your hands something fierce (and use some goggles lads- proppa rubber and all )

And brake fluid? seriously, why? It has like no redeeming qualities and is such a nuisance to work with- this isnt 1995 (the dark ages of miniature stripping) we have the technology to do amend! And be eco freindly...

Why brake fluid?

Because the only painted minis I purchase 2d hand are metals.

Considering I have an Automobile supplier around the corner which I tin can walk to.

The nearest store with superclean is a 10 minute drive away.

I dispose of the waste material through a local car repairer's driblet (he gets it picked up for disposal) for a small fee - I only go through about 500ml every year or so.

for metal, brake fluid gives me results virtually equally expert as MEK (which is harder to become due to its diverse nasty properties).

Also, I've worked in an electroplating shop, so adequate ppe is 2nd nature, and compared to hexavalent chromium fumes, brake fluid is a breath of rose scented air.

superclean is evirofriendly and works cracking on metal, and here at least a gallon costs less than a quart of restriction juice And I've used my last batch to clean...I think Im on my 5th batch of stripping and the stuff is well-nigh a year onetime.

But Im happy to hear that you lot dispose of it properly, most people dont :(

I tin understand on the plstics though- just too easy to get some botched figs that take too much attempt or cant be saved.

One alarm near intermission fluid. DON'T! as in don't employ it on resin miniatures such as Forge World kits.

A friend would use the stuff all the time on his plastic minis. In fact it worked so well that he repainted his Tau Army iii times. Kind of a nut that mode.
Anyways, back to the OT. Not quite happy with the paint job on some FW Remora's ( the larger gun drones with folding wings) he he dropped them in the fluid tank.
When he came to fish them out they were pretty much dissolved so desperately that they were pretty much ruined.

Hope this helps,
Dark_Gear

just a notation: Break fluid and resin are Not a good combination. I stripped a 2nd hand FW Hive Tyrant and ended upwardly softening the resin quite a bit. In fact, information technology was so soft that the soft toothbrush bankrupt off quite a flake of detail before I noticed what was happening.

Alrighty then I gauge the lesson for today is - and feel free to correct me:

- Use either Simple Green or Super Clean for your everyday models
- With resin models, after soaking in the stripping agent, use a soft-bristled toothbrush
- Resin is frail and can warp easily when pressured fifty-fifty in but warm water
- Use restriction fluid when you lot absolutely Take TO strip everything from a metal model that isn't metal - but brand sure to employ proper safety precautions
- Brake fluid and resin do not mix well

Brake fluid=metal only. And and then just if yous take the means to handle it safely and dispose of information technology properly. It melts many plastics (non all- but some) and does bad things to resins. Its really a poor choice these days unless you dont accept some other option or its terribly inconvenient to go anything else.

Acetone smash polish remover is much amend on metal models in those circumstances, provided they aren't too large. Easier to get hold of than break fluid, not going to do nasty things to your body, not going to exercise nasty things to the surroundings (at to the lowest degree comparatively) and chews through super gum. Sometimes on thicker joints the super glue doesn't dissolve as much equally going actually soft and gooey merely a light tug will separate the parts and the remnants can be peeled off pretty easily. It can accept a little longer than some other compounds. I had a badly caked incubi principal I was stripping and I tossed it back in a few times to go the thick paint out of the really deep crevasses.

I just need to notice some of the Super Clean over here in Perth, information technology seems. Haven't had much luck so far.

Alrighty, now I'm a little confused...

Then SuperClean is it'south own brand...and unfortunately it seems the website just shows me stores that stock information technology in America. Which particular product from the SuperClean line am I supposed to utilise for stripping models? Also, has anyone in Commonwealth of australia (fifty-fifty better if you're in the NSW/Sydney region) managed to become their hands on this product and if so from which chain of stores (took a look in Kmart today and couldn't for the life of me find any)?