Reply To: Stripping plastic minis

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I was going to mention LA’s Totally Awesome, which Uncle Atom of Tabletop Minions highly recommends, but see Wofie65 already has, albeit not favorably.

I don’t know whether he’s used it on anything else but the Mage Knight orc is probably a factory-painted figure. The  paint used on this type of mini, and action figures, is very different from hobby paints, and as far as I’m aware is essentially impossible to remove with any form of paint stripper, at least one that wouldn’t also damage the material the model is made from. The failure of LA’s Totally Awesome in this case is therefore not really a reflection on the product.

I’ve not used it because as far as I’m aware  it’s not available in the UK. Another product long-favoured by US modellers, Simple Green, is distributed here, but not, I think, at retail level, meaning it has to be bought in large quantities.