Strip Off!

[chailey]

Hi all, I'm sure this has been covered before but I'm blowed if I can find it.....whats the easiest way of removing dried oil/enamels from a resin figure, the paint has been on a couple of years!
Or....if I paint over it with acrylics will the oils 'bleed' through?
Any help appreciated, cheers,

 

[Ulrich]

I would try a dishing machine tab, warm water and all together with the figure over night into a big jar. And the next day with an old toothbrush under warm water you can normaly remove the rest of the old colour

 

[Helm]

Doubt very much it would bleed through after this amount of time

 

[chailey]

I'll give the dishwasher tab a try, thanks for the info................

 

[megroot]

I put my figures in my early stages of painting into a plastic bag with a really great dot of Mr Muscle (ovencleaner).
It stay there for a night, and then i clean it with dishwasher and hot water.
If there are rest some paint, I repeat it.
And it is to the bare metal, or resin.

marc

 

[valiant]

I echo Marc's suggestion - Mr Muscle oven cleaner every time!
Steve

 

[Einion]

Hi all, I'm sure this has been covered before but I'm blowed if I can find it.....

Look for stripping and/or stripping paint, that should find most of the previous threads.

Anyway, if you have any oven cleaner in the house that's also a good thing to try (Easy-Off or Mr. Muscle depending on which side of the pond you're on).

Or....if I paint over it with acrylics will the oils 'bleed' through?

Nope. Once a film of oil paint or enamels is fully dried any oil in it has polymerised, basically turning into to a kind of natural plastic.

Einion

 

[Funky50]

I echo Marc's suggestion - Mr Muscle oven cleaner every time!
Steve

Absolutly Mr Muscle every time for me(I ruined a few good collectable resin figures when I first started trying to find the best way of stripping the paint on resin)......will try the dishwasher tab trick though

 

[theBaron]

I used to use oven cleaner, but switched a couple of years ago to Super Clean, which is an automotive de-greaser. It works well, is not nearly as caustic as oven cleaner, whose active ingredient is lye, and a batch can be used over and over. Here in the States, you can get it at WalMart, but I'd also try automotive supply shops. It used to be made by Castrol, but I think another company makes it now.

Hope that helps, prosit!
Brad