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Author Topic: Stripping GW Plastics??  (Read 4407 times)

Offline Pil

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Re: Stripping GW Plastics??
« Reply #15 on: August 10, 2011, 07:56:21 AM »
Certainly some of the cheaper brands have done that for me, but I've found Boots Cutex and Superdrug's and Wilko's own brands are fine, never had any problems.

Good to hear, for info to any Dutch people here, the brand I used was Etos home brand 8)
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Offline Mike

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Re: Stripping GW Plastics??
« Reply #16 on: August 12, 2011, 11:30:50 PM »
Just adding my results with Simple Green. I soaked a jar of miniatures for about 26 hours (meant to get back to them but was busy elsewhere) and then scrubbed with a tooth brush gently. It worked great!

Very little elbow grease involved and I experimented with several ages of miniatures and paints. Metal minis I had painted and sealed 14 years ago came out looking new. Plastics my son abandoned 2 months ago left some of the white primer but I was able to clean the detail afterward with a knife. Plastics I bought second hand that must be very old also came clean and were the only ones that were tinted with the black basecoat.

I did see some softening of the green stuff putty, perhaps I will not let them soak as long. The green stuff has hardened again as it dried with no ill effects.

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Re: Stripping GW Plastics??
« Reply #17 on: August 18, 2011, 01:29:46 AM »
I've been using nasty, nasty, caustic paint strippers for years (on metal) and have never bothered trying to strip plastic. A few days ago I tried a brand of stripper and realized it wasn't water cleanup when I tried washing them off during the scrubbing process. I was left with a disgusting syrupy mess, so I threw them into a jar of Simple Green that I happened to have.

After a few days, I scrubbed them off with a toothbrush under running water, and got the cleanest results I've ever seen. So I tried just Simple Green on the next batch, including plastics... I'm mad at myself for not trying it sooner.
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