Well, I just hope those were metal models that you were stripping.... If they were plastic then things are going to look pretty bad...

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no metal - i will use dettol for the plastic ones - never did this kind of thing b4 - but i might have to buy a new bottle first. Not enough left in the bottle i got from my mom - i think she just threw the bottle away B4 i came to ask it.

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goblin: "people associate me with boogers because i am green"

So how did it work for you? Were you able to strip the paint off?

That's good garmenhord because white spirit is murder for plastic minis.

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Ok - it did not work at all.. And i waited till today to take them out..

I guess all i got of was from b4 when i used cottons to rub it of. I really have no clue how i got this much of saruman.

-and yes i rubbed them with the brush - but nothing came of

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goblin: "people associate me with boogers because i am green"

Garmenhorde don't know if they also have this in belgium but do they sell AJAX in Belgium. It is made to clean but if you use this with metal models you can easy get all the paint off with plastic it doesn't work.

PS: Get them at least 24 hours i nit.

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And use methylated spirits this time.

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Hmm I've never used AJAX. Your best and safest bet is Simple Green, which is a household cleaner. It works great and it only dangerous if you drink a lot of it. Here is the British website: http://www.simplegreen.co.uk/3/

You are in the Netherlands right? Here is the contact numbers I found for the distributors there: Autodelta
Stelmakerstraat 8
NL-9403 VB Assen, Netherlands

Phone: +31 592 37 22 99
Fax: +31 592 37 25 61
Cel: +31 653 623 945
Contact: André van Nimwegen

RGMX Products NL
Motorsports Products
Asserstraat 54
9331 JD Norg, Netherlands

Phone: +31 (0) 592-613975
Fax: +31 (0) 592-670357
Contact: Contact

Rob

@kidterminal: no Belgium Just beneath it.
@hero of gondor: Dunno if we have it at home , maybe in stores - I don't shop alot I will ask when my parents return. So that could also be used for plastic ones? Same thing? (24hours soak+a little bit of scrubbing with a toothbrush? - if it really works well i might get that instead of a new bottle of dettol. My mum said dettol is quite expensive. ) By the way did u get that pm?

Ok i am going to clean up some computer mess now - i accidently deleted the wrong files - and i failed to retrieve them. I hate computers now and then. (Even tough it was my fault - didn't payed attention enough)

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goblin: "people associate me with boogers because i am green"

Here is the distributor for Belgium:
BELTOOLS SA
Chaussée de Wavre 504/23
BE-1390 Grez-Doiceau, Belgium

Phone: +32 10 84 17 98
Fax: +32 10 84 27 51
Contact: Thierry Corbisier

Not for plastic! It doesn't work for plastic it doesn't damage the plastic but it is not good for you models!!

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@hero of gondor : ok good to know!
@kidterminal: That's the souther part of belgium - any in the flemish part? (maybe in Gent or Brussels?- Aalst would be even better hmm maybe i should check the model-building store )

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goblin: "people associate me with boogers because i am green"

Call the number and they may be about to ship some to you.

Thinner seems to be a good product to clean them up (metal ones)

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goblin: "people associate me with boogers because i am green"

You mean paint thinner?

I should ask that - a friend did it for me. - i only was told thinner - results:

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goblin: "people associate me with boogers because i am green"

meths mate, meths! put them in a plastic container filled with methylated spirits, cover it, let the minis soak for a few hours, then scrub with an old toothbrush. Problem solved.

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They look properly stripped now.

For those of you who don't have the possibility to purchase, or simply just don't trust you're minis to, these more "powerful" products, there is another way . Although it takes a large amount of time and is rather laborious, its cheap and simple. Just grab your minis and put them in a recipient, get some ordinary dish washer (I used ultra pro this being equivalent to fairy or any ordinary dish washer) and pour this over your minis and put a rather more than enough amount of dish washer over them. After this get some warm water in there, completely covering and soaking the minis. Now all you have to do is leave your minis in the soapy water for a month at maximum (if the mini contains many layers of paint). After about a week take your minis out and scrub them thoroughly (on metal minis scrub carefully on less supported areas like swords, arms striking outwards from the torso, helmets etc, and be overall more gentle with plastic minis!) with and old toothbrush so the that the paint can soften and the soapy water better affect the paint. Pop them back in the water and leave them, there doing the same thing after a week! You can scrub (or even just stir the water a bit) whenever you want, but one normally removes more paint when the mini has been soaked for a large amount of time (a day or two, optimally a week), just be sure to check and give a good scrub on the minis once a week! This process takes time and works quicker on minis with less layers of paint and on metal minis in general (you can scrub the stubborn buggers harder ). Be patient and remember to give em a good scrub.

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I'd go for the meths lol

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