Simple green anyone?

The tool shed, 30% off at the minute. I bought some on saturday. not tried it on paint yet, but it shifts everything else off everything else i've tried

Dunno if you have a bunnings near you but they were heaps chearper than placemakers... who also sell it.

Only the dark simple green concentrate works... the other colours (available at the warehouse) are just household cleaners...

You are going to need a couple old toothbrushes for scrubbing, a needle for fine detailing.

Also grab 2 big jars and a seive, for retrieving your figures and saving the Simple Green. I dont know exactly how reusable it is but i had 500ml that was murky brown after cleaning 50 orks, then I chucked in 30 stealers and gaunts that I got of trademe (they were thickly sprayed with fluro pink!?!). a day later the colour of the SG was a pinky sort of brown colour and the madels were clean as (accept for the one arm that was above the surface).

This 500ml has had models in it for over 2 months striped ALOT of paint is murky discoloured and has lots of floating cack in it but continues to strip paint... I might run it through a coffee filter paper to clean it up a bit and see what happens...

It also breaks down glue, not so much on epoxy I think but it weakens the hell out of superglue... also makes it very brittle and easy to remove so you might find yourself regluing parts... I dont know what its like vs. polystyrene cement. that melts the plastic for molecular bonding (never thought I would type molecular bonding). so it may be unaffected.

If you dont have any luck with those stores its usually available at supermarkets, but of course you then pay supermarket prices...

Like meths but since its not exactly a solvent you need to leave it in a lot longer...

Some paints will wash off without effort (fluro pink spray)

I tried GW paints after a day and had a little success, but 2 or 3 days worked sweet.

Some paints (maybe cheap nasty spray, idunno they were trade me models) may not come off and will leave lots of residue but it will cut it back to a very thin layer

Glue takes a little longer to weaken, so unless you re-glue it treat it as a weak bond.

IT CANT MELT PLASTIC... erm, I have like i mentioned had models in for months (that was the benefit of the contest) I would Prep what I needed for the next month while I was painting...

good stiff toothbrushes work wonders, move it in random circles for best (fastest) effect. also wash your brush after every couple models, dont need to dry it but it helps a treat... also scrub them in a box with kinda high sides and put newspaper underneith... the residual SG soaks through card and paper better than water... and the scrubbing procedure casts off lots of yuk...

The fumes are strong so good ventilation is required.

I havent tried it on varnish.

Metal models are cool, when the paint comes off its like a skin and retains ALL the detail. you can even wrap it back on (I had a lot of models to clean so I got bored

Finally wash all your models fully after scrubbing them... I actually kept a bowl of warm soapy warter next to me and droped them into it as I finished each one.

I cant think of anything else right now... ask me if there are other questions or things I might have forgotten