Bad painting cleaning: I need your advice
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April 26, 2010 at 2:43 pm #475
Hi everyone,
I checked my miniatures to be painted and I found some terrible waste on a douzen of it.
These are rare ones I bought on ebay which were daubed by its previous disrespectful owner.Does any of you know a good way to get rid of current painting without damaging miniature quality ? (apart from grey skin which would disappear I guess.)
I know Acetone can do the job but I fear it would also remove every finer points.
Thanks in advance.
April 26, 2010 at 2:43 pm #9663Hi everyone,
I checked my miniatures to be painted and I found some terrible waste on a douzen of it.
These are rare ones I bought on ebay which were daubed by its previous disrespectful owner.Does any of you know a good way to get rid of current painting without damaging miniature quality ? (apart from grey skin which would disappear I guess.)
I know Acetone can do the job but I fear it would also remove every finer points.
Thanks in advance.
April 26, 2010 at 4:33 pm #9664Acetone works quite well – sometimes.
What (weirdly) works quite well a lot – Cilit Bang (or Bam! as its called here).
If you get get Simple Green, that works too. Finally get a stiff tooth brush. Patiently brush the paint off.
However, all this assumes the painter used acrylic paints – which is a plastic compound, which the above mentioned solutions sort of melt off.
Mithril, for its part recommends something called “brush protector” or something, which I’ve never seen. They used to sell it, but not any more.
Gavin
April 27, 2010 at 10:13 am #9674Milo, you can use a paint thinner aswell. You fill a jar with the thinner and submerge the minis in it for approx 24 hours. Any acrylic paint will start to come of in a few minutes. Oil based paint will start to curl during time and is easy to brush of with a stiff tooth brush. With some of the older Mithril you need to repeat the procedure to get all of the undercoat of. Then you can start again… undercoat… paint… finished!:cool:
April 27, 2010 at 11:40 am #9677I think I will try with paint thinner and use Cilit Bang if the result is not good enough.
As soon as it is done, I give you some feedback.April 27, 2010 at 11:55 am #9681How interesting… For thinner I know method, but it is to expensive and I not often use thinner that supports my colors for such things as paint stripping. My wife buys this Cilit Bang detergent so I will in first occasion try to use it… this cilit bang seems to be a dangerous poison… 😆
April 27, 2010 at 10:38 pm #9698Well I’ve heard about people using automotive break fluid, oven cleaners and a host of other expensive, explosive or otherwise toxic chemicals! For myself, I use a floor cleaner called ‘Pinesol’ here in Amerika. One could Google it and find a suitalbe European generic version of this stuff. It’s cheap and doesn’t catch fire! I just let those minis soak a few days and it seems to remove the worst paint jobs I’ve seem (so that I can substitute my own poor paint jobs:|). One still has to use a brush to remove paint from the crannies. I use a brass wire brush. PS if you go with a toxic substance please do so with ventilation! Our hobbies can be dangerous!!!
April 28, 2010 at 11:26 am #9705Very dangerous!:o
If you take the minis out of the jar, please don’t smoke!June 29, 2010 at 8:08 am #10566I tried this week-end to get rid of terrible painting from ebay sellers.
French Cilit-bang after getting soaked 48h did not work exept for 1 mini.
Acetone+ toothbrush worked instantaneously on 23 minis. On half of it, I even kept the undercoat at 90%.
What surprises me is that only 2 minis resisted with no paint gone: 2 old Prince August (not Mithril !). I am wondering what kind off paint is used.
So thanks to all your advices, I will take pictures off the results once those are painted !
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