Manda (Amachan) goes to the Eastern Front

WARNING! Do not use this method of stripping miniatures with cast resin figures, it will ruin them.

For this I am using 99.9% isopropyl alcohol, this also really softens cast resin figures making them impossible to strip or use, but it will solve all paints. Then I am using a pickle jar with a strainer, the same I actually use to clean my resin 3D prints, but since my printer is basically dead I can use it for this instead. I filled it with the alcohol, the alcohol is a little bit discoloured as I used this same bath to strip some miniatures before, but it is fine to reuse it many times over. Then I of course grab my figures and toss them in the pickle jar and let them soak in there for about an hour. The strainer really helps getting them out and this jar has rubber seals around the lid so harmful vapours won’t get out while it is shut.

So an hour and a half later, I lost track of time…. It happens….. I opened the pickle jar and this is what I find. So grab one of the miniatures out of the jar and you can see that the paint is already letting go. I then grab an old toothbrush, I just bought some cheap ones just for this kind of work as I found that more hygienic, just rub the miniature with the toothbrush for a minute and you’ll end up with a clean miniature. Now you can go through this process again in order to get an even cleaner miniature, but this will do for most cases.

And after that I ended up with some non painted figures, even the greenstuff hats survived the process.

We all know that working with chemicals has its hazards, when doing this you should wear gloves and do it in a well ventilated area. When working with stuff like this I usually do it in my airbrush booth as it is set-up to filter the air that it sucks in before it goes back out. My airbrush booth is also set-up next to a window which I have open when working with stuff like this and I also have a fan blowing air towards the window.