Paint Stripping

Knight Girl said:
@Space Crusader - in my experience being willing to re-hab minis and buy by the lot is saving some money and there is hobby value and some fascination to the stripping/restoration process.

I'm really having fun and it's like turning scraps to treasures.
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I'm not surprised - there's a lot of satisfaction in doing that sort of thing. and to be honest, having seen some of the paint jobs on the old miniatures on ebay, stripping them and giving them a gleaming new coat of paint seems like an act of mercy1 :-D
 
ManicMan said:
again, depends on the glue used. also, how does the glue matter when it comes to the paint? some people like to glue figures together before any paint goes on them.. I think on the whole that CAN be nuts as often the point of them being in multiparts is cause of areas which block off others (thus would be hard to single cast, and sometimes tricky to get a brush into).
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Just experience. 100% of the models I buy are from eBay. And 100% of the plastic goes in the bin or if it's somewhat salvageable may get quickly tarted up and resold.
Why? Because no matter the glue used it's everywhere I don't need it. If it's poly it's melted the plastic, if it's superglue then it's rock hard and a real nightmare to try and remove.
I've yet to find anything that will totally break down CA and not melt plastic although Knight Girl here says she did.
And now I'm at the point of having about 50 mint 5th edition mounts so I don't need to mess about trying to strip plastic.

One exception.... A job lot I bought once. Bretonnian of course.... Horrendous paint but lots of metal. I thought I'd have to bin it all as usual. No, no, no.... This kid had used UHU glue, dried up tube included lol, I could literally peel it off with my fingers and the horsies all scrubbed up like new :D
 
It's quite nice restoring a mini from ebay. Although every now and then you get one where the photos were bad and the actual miniature is lovely. I got an Eldar war walker like that - can't bear to strip it and repaint so it'll just have to be "on loan" from another craft world :)
 
Eric said:
It's quite nice restoring a mini from ebay. Although every now and then you get one where the photos were bad and the actual miniature is lovely. I got an Eldar war walker like that - can't bear to strip it and repaint so it'll just have to be "on loan" from another craft world :)
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I got something like this. A lot of 3 3rd Edition "Bretonnian Knights d'Honneur", the paint looked basic on the eBay photos but they are quite nice in-hand, All I'm doing is adding some highlights and touch-ups.
 
Clio said:
Just experience. 100% of the models I buy are from eBay. And 100% of the plastic goes in the bin or if it's somewhat salvageable may get quickly tarted up and resold.
Why? Because no matter the glue used it's everywhere I don't need it. If it's poly it's melted the plastic, if it's superglue then it's rock hard and a real nightmare to try and remove.
I've yet to find anything that will totally break down CA and not melt plastic although Knight Girl here says she did.
And now I'm at the point of having about 50 mint 5th edition mounts so I don't need to mess about trying to strip plastic.

One exception.... A job lot I bought once. Bretonnian of course.... Horrendous paint but lots of metal. I thought I'd have to bin it all as usual. No, no, no.... This kid had used UHU glue, dried up tube included lol, I could literally peel it off with my fingers and the horsies all scrubbed up like new :D
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Yeah badly built plastics can be a pain, but most gaff's can be fixed with sanding or a bit of filler. I'm a newbie when it comes to Miniatures (despite having a life long interest in this stuff) but I've been building plastic kits for years - normally it's real world stuff though like this Vietnam era M48. (I really should try my had at a Leman Russ) - but most things can be salvaged.

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Space Crusader said:
Yeah badly built plastics can be a pain, but most gaff's can be fixed with sanding or a bit of filler. I'm a newbie when it comes to Miniatures (despite having a life long interest in this stuff) but I've been building plastic kits for years - normally it's real world stuff though like this Vietnam era M48. (I really should try my had at a Leman Russ) - but most things can be salvaged.

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LOVE it! I adore M48s, I'm in-progress on a TAKOM M48A5. Your M48A3B is superb
 
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