Stripping paint from miniatures, UK style

I’ve been a gamer for many years, so long in fact some of my collection is over 20years old. Whilst my painting skills are far from Golden Daemon standard some of my first forays into gaming are, um, not good. But some of the figures are great, and with the cost of gaming going up (there’s another rant right there) and spawn0 draining my bank account I’ve been trying to be more frugal and reuse some of my old collects.

First aspect of this is to strip the old paint from the miniature. I’d spent a while searching through various forums for advice on stripping paint, most solutions I found were US-centric with specific products (mostly oven cleaners) named. Based on this I started with an owned brand oven cleaner, the results were less than spectacular.

Luckily I’ve since come across Spud Tate – paint stripping from a gamer in Leeds, recommending Superdrug’ acetone free nail polish remover. At ~£1 a bottle, it was too tempting not to try; pleased to say first test batch was successful, old Delaque gang currently submerged as I type.

–Andrew

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