About un-painting chromed parts

straight full strength bleach less than 1/2 hour

before

during

after

Trey

Bleach will take the chrome off in under an hour, usually.

Wash the parts, dry, and airbrush Alclad chrome on top of a gloss black base--it looks amazing. I can't believe I ever used chromed kit parts after using this method.

rajj21

You need to have the surface proffessionally prepped as well. If the finish is not properly prepped, the new paint job will end up a disaster.

One of the big key items in a proffessional paint job is the prep work. I would not want to guarantee a paint job unless I did the prep work too.

 

I assume by "professionally prepped" you mean pay someone else to do it.  I don't know any of my modeling friends who hire a professional to paint their models.  If you do, it isn't a hobby any more.

I see, I see... Thanks a lot for your replies... I'll try to remove the paint of a scrap part, so let's see what happens. I'll post some progress as time permits. Best regards.

José.

rajj21.

Agree but thought that was a given. ;)

You need to have the surface proffessionally prepped as well. If the finish is not properly prepped, the new paint job will end up a disaster.

One of the big key items in a proffessional paint job is the prep work. I would not want to guarantee a paint job unless I did the prep work too.

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Agree with Don Stauffer.

Covering areas you don 't want to strip with parafilm, etc would also work well.

Granted I don't strip all the parts, some like headlights,mirrors, etc are tough to redo so I cut those of the sprue  before stripping.

Tamiya chrome strips easily and quickly. Revell, OTOH, is very thich and tough to remove same for some of the older IMAI kits like MOSPEADA(those took a 3 day soaking).

Did a Tamiya kit and the chrome disappeared while I was still pouring bleach(undiluted) into the container soaked the runners for 30 seconds rinsed and VOILA.

Coca Cola, Household Bleach diluted 50/50.

Rather than remove chrome first, I prime it with a toothy primer such as Krylon.  Paint adherence has been good.  This is particularly attractive for only painting part of a chrome part- no need to rechrome the remaining areas.  Just mask off the chrome area before priming.

Not sure what is is exactly ,some sort of soap.

I had good results stripping chromed parts with Kitchen Bleach, Simple Green, Break/Clutch Fluid.

Actually did a batch yesterday for 4 Motorbike kits.

For recreating the chrome finish I can recomend Alclad II or my favorite Kosutte Gin-San: