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To strip or not to strip, that is the question...


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This isn't a thread about how to fund my plastic crack habit.

I've recently picked various old metal mini's from ebay and raided my old army boxes from the mid nineties for further supplies. All the painted metal mini's ive taken into the lab and stripped back to bare metal.

The last few I've picked up from ebay however only have a fine white prime over the metal. For painting I prefer a black prime, as I suits my colour scheme better:

Should I:

A) leave as an just paint regardless

B) strip and undercoat with black

C) apply a bkack prime over the white

 

Really can't decide what to do for the best result. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

 

Cheers

Baz

I agree with betrayer41 and think you should go ahead and strip. If I get assembled and/or painted figures from someone else, I like to strip them with acetone because not only does it completely remove every single speck of paint without the need for scrubbing, it also dissolves super glue, and all that within a few hours. Do be careful if you use acetone for stripping, though; wear gloves and use it in an area with good ventilation. Oh, and it will dissolves plastics as easily as the paint so make sure you remove any bases and plastic parts that might be attached to the metal figure.

Nothing (but the metal) survives acetone.

 

Indeed. A while back I bought some metal figures for a different game off of eBay and I have no idea what kind of paint the guy put on it, but an overnight soak in Simple Green didn't put a dent in it. Not only that, but the original owner used a crapload of super glue instead of pinning the figures together, and an equally stupid amount to attach them to their bases. I had to break the bases off of the figures, leaving chunks attached to the tabs, because there was so much glue I couldn't pry them free.

 

I bought some acetone and a safe container and let them sit for about two hours while I did some stuff around the house and then came back to check on them. I was a little worried because the acetone had turned black, while the figures had been painted white. A while back, I bought a cheap mesh strainer to use when stripping figures to make sure little parts don't get lost, so I started pouring the acetone through the strainer into a different container, and lo and behold, the figures looked like they had just come out of a blister pack. The paint, the super glue, everything was gone except the metal. Dissolved. Even the remnants of the plastic bases still attached to the slot tabs had been dissolved, and that's what turned the acetone black.

 

That's the only time I've had to resort to using something as strong as acetone to strip figures, but if you ever get one of those glue bomb metal figures where you know you'll never get all the glue out of the nooks and crannies, this'll fix it.

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