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Reply To: Stripping plastic minis

February 14, 2023 at 1:54 pm #1802090

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Personally my advice is never use dettol. It contains all sorts of chemicals to colour and change the smell of the core elements. What you end up with is a horrible brown smelling sludge on the models and it makes then stink to high heaven.

The active chemical in dettol is isopropyl alcohol which you can buy in the uk it is typically called Decorator Mineralised Methylated Spirit which will typically be purple due to the dye to stop people drinking it.

Leave the product soaking in the solution for 20 minutes then take it out. Scrub it with an old toothbrush or get one from poundland. This will rough up the paint and allow for the product to get into the layers of paint. Then back in for another 20 minutes. Depending on the paint / model repeat the soak then brush to remove the paint.

Typically you just need to remove enough to respray it you dont need to remove every single last bit.

The only problem you might have is with oil based or certain type of enamel paints and sprays they are much harder to remove.

If the above fails a few people have been saying good things about Paint Blitzer the hobby phase recently used it. A friend used it to strip plastic models and he said it was amazing. I guess the main issue is getting hold of it.

https://www.greypaints.com/post/unto-the-breach-paint-blitzer

Finally people please stop using dettol. Luke made this great video why you should not.