Spray paint incident

[Wooden Crow]

Had a quick question, I recently began play malifaux and painting figures. I have one crew finished and last night began the under coat of a second. With the first crew I used chaos black spray by GW and had no problems. I tried with the second one to use a grey primer as I was told it is easier to balance colors with. Anyway ended up using to much and losing quite a bit of detail. The question I have is there a way to rectifiy this. Thought about stripping it but as the models are plastic was a little worried about that.

[rsteelrose]

Simple Green works really good for plastics. Just submerge them and let them sit for 24 hours, then us an old toothbrush to scrub them, maybe an xacto to scrape the really detailed areas.

[micahwc]

Dollar General stores carry a cheap citrus based cleaner which from experience I know works wonderful for stripping paint. Just submerge them in it for a day or two and then scrub the paint off with a brush. A small dental scraper type tool works well for getting the paint out of the really hard to reach areas.

[Fenton Crack]

I have Castrol Super Clean (an engine cleaner) which works great on metals, and I hear is safe and works great on plastics too. You might want to research it a bit more before dunking them. (And wear gloves, it eats hands)

[Domime Nox]

Castrol Superclean is safe on plastic as well. I've used it to strip down over 400 miniatures at this point and there have been no ill effects. I HIGHLY recommend it. Though I will say it is about 99% effective at taking paint off of metal it's more like 68% on plastics.

[Webmonkey]

And once you get the pieces clean,... remember that you don't need to completly coat the figure. A light to medium "dusting" will do.

I also recommend duplicolor spray primer. It lays down fantastically.

[dgraz]

Anyway ended up using to much and losing quite a bit of detail.

Aww man. Oops. That sucks.

[Matney X]

I fully recommend Duplicolor Sandable Primer, too. I use their grey, then dust my minis with their white.

Something I read a long time ago about primer is that you don't NEED an awesome coat of primer (we all want one) -- you just need something the basecoat can grab onto.

[madjackdeacon]

I absolutely love Chameleon paint stripper, and it is designed for plastics. Good luck find it though. This page has some good comparisons on what to use...

[FlammenKrieger]

I use Dulux Quick Dry White Undercoat for my minis. Its cheap and gives a good base. Also doesn't obscure detail. If you are going to spray grey, just spray that first, don't worry about the black, or don't make the undercoat solid. Just a half arsed effort so the paint has something to stick to.