stripping off tamiya acrylics

Oops! I should have mentioned that I had airbrushed Pollyscale and not Tamiya acrylics on the deck pieces of my Cutty Sark

Mike

Here's another vote for Simple Green.

This morning I took a couple of plastic baggies and put in the deck pieces from Revell's 1/96 Cutty Sark which I'd painted with a flat black then, after curing for 24 hours, airbrushed a brown color (which I ended up not liking) over the black. I added Simple Green enough to make sure all painted surfaces were covered. I let it sit about an hour (much more and the Simple Green might eat through the baggie), took out the deck pieces and, with an old tootbrush, easily removed all but a minute amount of both layers of paint.

Since Simple Green is an eco-friendly, non-toxic cleaner, I much prefer using it to oven cleaner.

Mike

Simple Green does a great job on removing Tamiya acrylics, but sometimes you have to scrub the parts a little with an old toothbrush to all the paint.   Household bleach can also strip Tamiya acrylics but it takes a lot longer to work.

thanks for your replies, tried Mr muscle oven cleaner on a trial piece, it worked brilliantly. looks like new.

If you are talking about the regular bottled acrylics (not the spray cans), it doesn't get much simpler then plain old methylated spirits (aka denatured alcohol).

Windex (ammonia) will take it off in seconds.

If rubbing alcohol doesn't work I have also used ammonia.  If that won't work Easy Off oven cleaner definately will.  Spray it on and put the model in a zip strip plastic bag overnight.  Next morning just wash it off with a toothbrush.  Just wear a mask and gloves with the oven cleaner as the fumes are nasty.

If it's airbrushed acrylics, rubbing alcohol should work.