Painted Razarac and Angmar Trolls

you have got a great smile from me

actually I do the same as Arthadan using indistruial toluene solvent from brand V33 (not used for years actually I hope it is still active in its bottle :p ) but it is not liquid it is a “jelly” (“gel” in french, if you see what I mean) in order not to get intoxicated, and since the bottle aperture is big, i use some thin metal cord around the figurine and put the figurine entirely in the bottle while having the metal cord fixed outside…. I leave the figurine for some hours in it then i retrieve it… usually the paint has begun to peel out of the figurine and you can simply peel it with small tools and it all goes away and reveals bare metal below, no matter how many layers of paintings there was…

the more you keep it in the bottle the more it will allow for peeling in small details and deep parts easily, indeed…

quite magic

I’ll have to look up what the stuff I always use is called –

Well, recently I’ve started to used braked fluid, and it works nice good to take most of the paint, leaving in the minis some hours. Later I finish cleaning it with an old brush and tolueno or acetone.

here is a french link to the product I use… I could not find the chemical properties but it clearly says it can strip up to 10 layouts of anykind of paints from any many kinds of support including metal , wood
it is VERY VERY strong and effective and does not attack the metal you just peel away altogether the paint in a single peeling… like you would remove the crust on a roasted piece of chicken easily
http://www.v33.fr/gallery_files/site/44/48/49/15460.pdf

as I said, i surround the figurine with some thin brass wire, i make a little noose, and i plunge the figurine in the bootle opening inside the “gel”, while i still have the thin other side of the brass wire outside… after several hours, I remove the figurine by pulling the wire.

Indeed the figurine is a bit gelified but using some absorbing paper (no sink, but then I throw it in the trashcan but there is not a lot of product inside) I remove most of it then I carreful peel the paint that has not already gone with the absorbing paper helped with a thin modelling scalpel to reach the difficult parts. what remains of the paint is removed with the gel so in the end , there is not a lot of this product left quite nothing actually and you can rinse it or use some slighty wet kerchief to make sure no product is left and the figurine is clean

VERY scarcely I have problems with very difficult angles and edges but it only requires some more hours in the “gel” and even that is then easily removed…

As I said, I don’t know the real composition of this product and I suppose it is somehow kept secret by the brand because it is REALLY efficient and there are not a lot of competitors on this quality…
maybe it could be toluene free? from the forums I checked, V33 gel is less toxic and different from toluene, and its not especially dangerous for skin.

That´s the truth!

Great news for collectors on both sides of the Pyrénées then ! 😆

You are great and deserve a free drink in the pony Chema !

Of course, Master Arthadan is the first person to thank more for having found, purchased and provided this miniatures.

BTW, I also won 2 dragon auction & M322 from same seller.
Now Smaug Triumphant is my last dragon missing ! 😆