Methylated spirits is even cheaper and faster. Get a bottle from B&Q for less than a fiver and you can apply via a rag or cotton bud or pour into a plastic cup and submerge plastic and resin minis for 30 seconds then scrub with an old brush and repeat the process. I stripped a mini last night and the paint and AP primer was gone in less than 5 minutes. With metal minis just swap methylated spirits for acetone but careful of the fumes.
Try bioethanol instead of methylated spirits, it used to be £6 for 2 litres in B&Q but now it's £8. Same properties only its plant-based alcohol and not petrochemical, doesn't have toxic methanol added and is cheaper!
Great vid. I just picked up a cheap sonic cleaner, for a few plastic and metal ebay miniature rescues. Dunked these in methylated spirits and set the cleaner for 3 minutes, followed by a little elbow grease. After two cycles they came out great.
I love this stripper, been using it for years. it was amazing on an old dreadnought that went through several chapters. if you leave it in the gunge for longer it kills the old super glue and I'm guessing UHU.
I've been using this stuff, it's benzo alcohol based. I did get a shock a few weeks ago when I left a metal model soaking in the stuff with a slotta base and the base melted away. But is was left a few days. Also available at B&M bargains 😉
Coming back to this one a year and a half later, for any UK people using the Amazon links, the 500ml one now takes 3-7 *months* for dispatch, which is crazy. The 1l one sends the next day on Amazon Prime as normal. Something to be aware of! (obv not Josh's fault, can't be expected to check every link every day for the rest of forever, I'm sure it was fine at the time!)
Fantastic tips mate, couldn’t have come at a better time for me as I have a whole Eldar army to strip and re-paint. Awesome stuff I’ll post my progress on the discord 😃👍🏼
Apparently some thermoplastics like Siocast can react poorly to these kinds of stripper - they're known to go weird in biostrip (apparently being nylon-based they react poorly to an acid in the biostrip mix). I wonder if the same may apply with this?
Dude I'm not kidding I've just spent about half hour yelling at videos where people spend five minutes jabbering on before they even mention what they are using to do the stripping....explaining their results before they even say what they're using...I mean seriously, who cares about the results if the flipping products there using are stupid...which they usually end up being, after you've wasted 5 minutes waiting for them to get to the f#cking point lol.. 45 seconds into your video and you've shown me the product you're using, and you've began explained what it will work on, so I know I'm not wasting my time watching the video. Thank you mate! folks making videos need to use a video like this as a good example of the right video model for an instructional video. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
@@ThePickleJar Don't get me wrong I love seeing you and Luke wind each other up and your edits are always entertaining regardless of whether thay stay on topic or not, because the value of simplicity in order of operation in the video keeps it easy to follow...I know I'll struggle to pay attention if I'm spending half the video trying to guess what product is being used, and lack of patience usually results in a lot of cursing. you're videos make me less noisy lol.
Get some clean spirit from Wilko mate, safe for plastic and strips really well, I leave models soaking overnight, best bit is its £2 for 500ml and can strip 4-6 times before it starts to not work as well!
I used to use biostrip but now i just use methylated spirits. No issues with an half hour soak, strips everything and doesn't affect anything, metal models need like 10 mins to work, and hardly needs brushing off. defo nothing wrong with biostrip though
Dettol was a disaster for me, I used it on my Ahriman model; it didn't get all the primer off and it's changed the chemical composition of the plastic some how, the outside of the model has a crust of plastic that plastic cement can't melt.
@@ThePickleJar nope, it's ruined. I've tried so many things to fix it but the crust is almost 1mm deep so would destroy the model if I scrape all that off.
It's mostly just benzyl alcohol in a suspension medium all the water-based strippers use it AFAIK since the bans on methylene chloride. Try Klean Strip or a similar US brand.
