Question for fellow modellers

Daz, pretty obvious here but when you hose it off, don’t let it flow down a drain and into the water system. It would be terrible on the environment and illegal I should think.

Also, don’t clean your teeth with the toothbrush afterwards, hehe

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enjoy – but don’t ask about the use of Johnsons Future/Klear as a gloss coat…

or Aztek airbrushes…….

I’ll give it a try then….

My Victor was Humbrol enamels.

Paul

Well, I’m using ordinary Humbrol enamels, so should I worry?

It doesn’t work on all paints. Every few weeks I go to a meeting where we play with toy cars – HO scale slot cars to be exact. I haven’t a clue what sort of paint it is but although Mr Muscle affects it, it doesn’t take it all off.

Cheers for the tips, Paul. Will maybe give it a try tonight and see what happens (maybe even do a thread on it!).

Yes, it takes off decals though you may need to use the old toothbrush a bit, but generally leaves the paint below intact, so you need to do a second treatment where there were decals.

Paul

What about decals? Does it work on them, too?

As I say I used in on a Victor, which I first made 10-15 years ago, so yes it works on old paint! It took a couple of goes in some places, but the paint was quite thick – it took a lot of coats of white to cover the lovely Matchbox dark green plastic! It also takes more work on gloss than on matt.

Spray the stuff on – taking the precautions I mentioned – put in a plastic bag for about an hour, then take out, hose down and get to work with the old toothbrush.

Paul

Paul

Right, so it looks as though Mr Muscle works perfectly well then??

I’m just wondering, though, is that on paint in general? Fresh paint? Old paint? :confused:

I have used Modelstrip, it does work, but it does take time, is not the easiest thing to use and in my experience anything at all delicate does get broken.

Recently I used Mr Muscle on a Matchbox Victor, which would have taken about ten tubs of Modelstrip to strip. It certainly does the job,in many ways it’s easier and is a lot cheaper if doing anything of any size. But you do need to be careful. I am generally not the type to get too worried about warnings on the can, but I wore proper gloves for this stuff and sprayed it outside. Even then, I nearly dropped the model when standing downwind of it!

Paul

I used Modelstrip quite a few years ago. It works but it’s takes time.
I asked for some, I think at one of the stalls at Waddo, a year or two back and the bloke said he didn’t know if it was still available and he wasn’t bothered as he used Mr Muscle oven cleaner.

Something else that a mate and i came up with after much experiemtation was mix one part MEK (Ethyl Methyl Ketone, usually used as liquid glue for platic kits) and four parts methylated spirits. It stinks by it works brillaintly. Just mix and apply with a soft cloth. All types of paint, enamel, acrylic, whatever, comes straight off. Be advised to do it in a well entalated area, MEK isn’t pleasant stuff at the best of times despite model shops selling it to kids. At least this is something every modeller should be able to make from stuff they already have.

well I am dfdsrphgf#d’rjgsdp0ht#thpjedp0ohtgre]#ujh’psorh#psrtjh#phj’aeorphgs’frdtg no worse the wear for it….

Thanks for the tips – may well give that Hannants stuff a look.

Hi Daz As an expert in cocking up painting models I have done a fair bit of looking this up, somepeople suggest oven cleaner and a toothbrush but isnt really practical if you like you eyes performing the functions they are ment to so I just had a look on hannants website( they deliver) and purchased some actual model paint striper its actually very good resonably priced and goes a long way (its already stripped a Vulcan and mk8 spit and loads left).

Any way ramble over hope this sort of helps :confused:

fairey power spray is the very best way of taking paint off of plastic………apparantly its good for the cooker too but I dont stoop to such activities…..:)

leave for half hour or so and scrub off (i use old tooth brush)

fumes are bit potent tho……..