Is there an acrylic paint remover?

Model Master makes a dried paint solvent that will remove acrylics. I use it as a brush cleaner as well.

Andy

Windex with amonia.

depending on how long it's been on there, you may need to let it soak for an hour.  Put the windex in a bowl, put the part in the bowl, let it sit and then wipe it off.  It'll be good as new.

If it's not that old, you can just keep spraying and wiping with the windex as well.

Fresh paint will come off immediately.

-Fred

All of the above and my personal favorite, Castrol Super Clean for the heavy duty stripping of an entire car body, fuselage, etc.  Put the part(s) in a sealable plastic bag, add Super Clean to cover the parts and wait a day.  Then use an old toothbrush to remove any stubborn paint. 

edit-Always wear plastic latex/rubber gloves when using Super Clean-will dry your hands out very quickly.

All the above will work as already stated. I use Windex with amonia. I once had a canopy that I wanted to repaint but it had been painted and futured almost two years earlier. I dropped it in a cup of windex and let it sit over night. The next day I had a clean canopy ready for repainting and futuring.

I'll add another one to the list:  automotive brake fluid.

An excellent container for the purpose is an aluminum foil cooking pan - the kind that are sold in packages of three or four, in various sizes, at the grocery.  Put it in the kitchen sink, fill it to the necessary depth with brake fluid, and submerge the part.  Within ten or fifteen minutes, the paint will start lifting off.  Rinse it off under the faucet; that probably will take off any paint that's left.  If not, go to work on it with an old toothbrush. 

Brake fluid containers carry various safety warnings.  I haven't gotten any burns or other skin reactions from it, but it will take paint off anything it hits.  (That's why mechanics - if they're competent - always put rubber mats on the fenders of cars when adding brake fluid.)  I don't know whether it's any more dangerous than any of the other substances mentioned already; all I know is that I've always had good luck with it.

bobbaily wrote:

All of the above and my personal favorite, Castrol Super Clean for the heavy duty stripping of an entire car body, fuselage, etc.  Put the part(s) in a sealable plastic bag, add Super Clean to cover the parts and wait a day.  Then use an old toothbrush to remove any stubborn paint.  Always wear plastic gloves when using Super Clean-will dry your hands out very quickly.

I second that although it no longer has the "Castrol" name on the bottle it is just "Super Clean" now. It does contain Sodium Hydroxide (Lye) and that is why you need to keep it off your skin.

That is the same ingredient in Easy-Off oven cleaner and Liquid Plumber drain cleaner BTW.  

Thanks for all the suggestions.  Brake fluid, eh?  Wow!

Without trying to explin in too much detail, unfortunately I don't have the luxury of soaking the part.   Am talking about the upper 1/4" or so of the sides, of the model of the Titanic.  But I can try laying it on its side and letting a remover lay on an area at a time, keeping it off the rest of the exterir which we have already proceeded to work on, the black upper and red lower. (air burshed red over the lower part, over the read already put there by the young man, to try to even out its look). 

Or was that in detail anyway...

Thanks again.