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    August 2007
Removing acrylic wash
Posted by Phantom Fan on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:34 AM

After never being able to come up with a satisfactory sludge wash on my own, I purchased Vallejo's pre-mixed transparent black acrylic wash. I applied it to all the panel lines on my 1/72 Il-28 Beagle bomber, then waited for it to dry. Now I can't get the stuff off! Any advice on how to remove an acrylic wash? Soapy water? Windex? Some sort of commercial stripper? I'd rather not lose the decals & paint job underneath the wash. Thanks!

  • Member since
    May 2011
  • From: Bedford, Indiana
Posted by AceHawkDriver on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 11:04 AM

I've never used Vallejo's washes but have used their paints.  Was the wash applied over a glosscoat by chance?  If so, you could try a little bit of windex on a small paintbrush or damp (not soaking wet) cloth to try and wipe off the excess.  A word of caution here, I routinely use windex to clean up future, so if Future was your glosscoat of choice, too much might damage the glosscoat itself.  

If the wash was applied to a flat coat of paint with no glosscoat (or gloss paint) then you might have a problem.  Without a glosscoat or gloss paint, the wash would have a tendency to act as a fliter on the areas outisde of the panel lines.  Even with carefully trying to clean up around the panel lines, you may end up with a "stained" look similar to what you might see in a drop ceiling tile.  

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