How to increase your lead mountain without spending money!

[Steam Flunky]

Hi all,
i have found a great way of adding to my lead mountain without spending a penny/cent/whatever!
I was looking at my old figures (some from the late 70's and 80's) which i still love but my painting standard was not very good then, and decided to strip the paint off these early armies and repaint them.
Of course you have to pretend you are buying them new, which means you strip the paint off more figures than you can paint!!

Sorry for writing this mail with wax crayons, but i am not allowed to have sharp objects in here 

[Tactalvanic]

re-cycling at its best.

Still I am surprised you are allowed the necessary chemical re-agents to do such stripping if you are indeed adequately secured and restrained.

[former user]

he uses his toothbrush.... 

[LawnRanger]

God god man don't do it !
 
  I said I would repaint my mates 10mm ww2 stuff was the WORST thing I have EVER done(wargames wise    took me 3 times as long to do a fig!
I would rather paint new figs than strip old ones and repaint them,

 I have touched up some of my old stuff with a wash / added highlights but never have I repainted a fig BUT I have rebased old figs with better bases .A good base makes a poor fig good and a good fig stunning 

That said I have seen some stunning figs painted and they are just chucked on a base    what a shame they spend hours painting the figures and just spend a 10th of the time basing them ..

Happy gaming LR

[eilif]

Stripping your own painted figures. Maddness!  I've stripped hundreds of figs that I've bought from others, but I rarely strip figs I've painted.  My lead pile is already far to large to want to take figs from the painted collection and return them to unpainted.

Of course I wasn't painting in the 80's, so there's that….

The most I'll undertake is "improving" the paintjob. I've got a 90's Blood Angel Army all painted in block colors that is someday going to get a bit of drybrushing, some decals a dip and some proper basing over the green-painted bases.