Experiments with modern sprue and solvents

The Serene Badger

The Serene Badger

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Rather than clutter up the Februhairy thread, I thought I'd stick this here. I know modern sprue plastic isn't that common here, but just in case it's useful:

Before trying to rescue my goose I thought I'd test the solvents as I want to just strip his head. So I got some leftover sprue (modern bloodbowl plastic) with well dried primer on it - army painter matt white.

100% Acetone: instantly removed the paint. After 10 minutes the sprue had gone squishy and floppy on the surface.

100% isopropyl alcohol: did nothing to the paint, even with scrubbing and nothing to the sprue after 10 minutes.

Biostrip 20: stripped the paint rapidly. No sign of damage to the sprue after 10 minutes. Though I know to my cost it will make finecast go soft and dissolve. I haven't yet experimented to see if UV light can re-harden the finecast, but have probably left it too late now.

I'm going to go with biostrip. Gloopy glop though it is.

Right,on with repairs.
 
I've been experimenting a bit with 'old' biostrip.. basically, it's a white kinda creamy stuff in the tub, but after you use it (I dip a figure in, then put the figure in a little pot where the biostrip then reacts and some dripps off etc, the stuff turns into a slimy orange/gold thing.. which is STILL useable.. or atleast, it appears to be. I've been using it to clean some paint brushes ^_^

It's called 'Recycling' though for some reason, alot of people don't like classing re-using stuff as such... whenever I get something which says 'No recyclable' I take it as a challenge. You can recycle anything if you have a mind to it (kinda anything). Something kids today don't understand. Back in my day, we recycled cardboard toilet roll tubes, plastic bottles, Tea bags (well, the tea leaves more. I don't like buying tea to just use the leaves and since I drink the stuff, just put an old bag to dry for a few days then cut it open and pour into a bag. If you leave them sitting together in the bag for too long, they start to go mouldy though). anyway.. off topic a bit their.. but yep, I'm testing how much Biostrip can even be 'reused' to a degree and.. so far, pretty good which makes sense, cause I don't know what is the active part but not all of it is gonna be used when you dip a figure in it.

(also.. roman Goose? that's a roman salute.. though I believe these days it was taken by the neo-nazis to call it the 'Nazi salute' (gee.. what didn't they steal?)
 
Just the angle. The goose is just a good old traditional cranky goose with no Nazi tendencies. I can confirm he's an equal opportunity arse who's mean to everyone without prejudice!
 

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ManicMan said:
It's called 'Recycling' though for some reason, alot of people don't like classing re-using stuff as such... whenever I get something which says 'No recyclable' I take it as a challenge. You can recycle anything if you have a mind to it (kinda anything). Something kids today don't understand.
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Like many here, I suspect, I grew up with glass milk bottles and 10p back when you returned your glass pop bottles to be washed and reused. Reuse is far more efficient than melting down and recycling
 
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