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    November 2005
Fixing a screw up?
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 18, 2003 8:07 PM
Hi, what's the best way to strip the paint and start over, if we screw up on the painting? Should I sand it? soak it in something like gasoline, thinner...?
  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 18, 2003 8:12 PM
I use Simple Green straight from the bodel. Soak it for a few minutes, then use a soft toothbrush or equivalent to get all of the paint off. Works for me.

demono69
  • Member since
    January 2003
Posted by shermanfreak on Thursday, September 18, 2003 8:35 PM
Easy Off Oven Cleaner and an old toothbrush. Same directions as above.

Some paints depending on age and if they are enamels or acrylics may take a little longer but they'll come off.
Happy Modelling and God Bless Robert
  • Member since
    May 2003
  • From: The flat lands of the Southeast
Posted by styrene on Saturday, September 20, 2003 1:22 PM
The Easy-Off is one of the best, but you need to be careful and wear gloves and goggles when using the stuff. Brake fluid is another alternative, although I haven't tried it. There is also a purple liquid made by Castrol, I think, and available at Wally World (Wal-Mart).
There is one other method: Take a well-used credit card, put it in your wallet and go to the local hobby shop or internet and use it to purchase a replacement kit.
Stay AWAY from gasoline, unless you like seeing your kit in liquid form! The same is true for lacquer thinners.
Gip Winecoff

1882: "God is dead"--F. Nietzsche

1900: "Nietzsche is dead"--God

  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Saturday, September 20, 2003 1:52 PM
Bookmark this web page for future reference as it contains all you need to know about stripping the paint from plastic models. Big Smile [:D]

http://www.bonediggers.com/1-3/strip/strip.html

The Castrol Super Clean Degreaser was the best overall.

Mike

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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