Tamiya Paint Remover, Any Good??? 

Glenn looks cracking mate really striking!! Glenn you will have to keep doing the vids once in a while mate after you wind down! you are the man! No gimmicks just decent content!😉👍

I used to take ages using the same technique as you when removing paint from polycarbonate, until someone told me this technique. What you do is paint on the paint remover, then cover that with tissue to keep the fumes in ( the fumes adds to the paint removing process). You can add more paint remover to the tissue and soak it in, then leave for a few seconds, and then rub it and it will come off in seconds. It was a game changer for me when I used Carson paint killer. Give it a try

Awesome job Glenn, great video! Shell looks amazing

Great video! Just goes to show what a bit of elbow grease and a bit of determination can do. It looks stunning too. Far better than the original orange. A fascinating video from start to finish. Brilliant!😀👍

great vid.. But.. I've used the paint remover on a body too but used a small brush to wet the paint in larger areas. Let it sit for a 20+ seconds and then use a cotton pad (what the misses use to remove make up) to wipe the paint off. Repeat that to really clean the body. That goes better.

Helpful vid, thanks! This pandemic has driven another 70's kid back into rc. My curious son found my old Kyosho and Tamiya box of bits and pieces; they need a repaint. I wish we still had a track in Oakville.

Yeah I’m liking the look of that with the minimal decals. I stripped an entire original frog shell that had thick brushed on red and blue paint from the 80’s with Tamiya poly cleaner. Used the entire bottle and took about an hour and a half but did a great job. No cracking or cloudiness and then painted it box art.

Loving that colour. Finished car looks awesome 😁

Awesome video man. Love to watch the painting videos. He’s sticking around everybody LOL at least i hope so 😂

You are a very patient person you did a great job. It looks lovely

Great video Glen good advice as always thanks mate 👍

Wow that is an awesome colour change and it looks fantastic, job well done and keep up the great vids and stay safe dude 🤘👍

Great Job Tamiya Legends...I really have to say it. I would love to have an orange one with black wheels. 🙈 Lets see what I find in the shed... Keep on with the great vids.

真的很棒，我的Serpent SRX-2 因为掉漆 打算重新喷涂 但不知道用何种方法 看到这期视频 让我充满了信心 我要重新喷绘一遍SRX2车壳 😘

The yellow looks amazing Glenn

Another very interesting video and a wonderful end result too. It'd be great to have such a high performance basher. So many of your vehicle look so good that i would be too scared to thrash about and really have some fun with (im looking at you 'Hotshot'!). I hope you have an absolute blast with this car. Dont bother with the stress of filming it. Just get out there and have some fun!!👍👍

Results look smashing - shows what can be done with the right products and plenty of elbow grease

I finally was able to purchase the Tamiya Polycarbonate Cleaner at my Hobby Shop. I used an old white t shirt and it worked. I tested on the rear wing first and it worked fine, only thing it that whoever painted the Hpi Diablo Gt used a transparent dark orange, gold and black.

Hope your going along okay Glenn, all the best from the land down under mate, i`m always here watching every new video. j.

So good old-fashioned elbow grease Glenn mate end result is fantastic well done mate👊😎👍🇬🇧😊🤟

Flouro-yellow looks great though! With some silver wheels those silver decals would look amazing too

Yeh! Loud proud and proper in your face, straight back to the 80/90s loving it!!!! and hat off to you for your perseverance in stripping the paint off the shell, think I would have said f$*! it and bought a new shell hahaha.

Loving that colour ! I do like fluro colours though , cracking work

Arggh Glenn, that shell looked awesome in orange and black 😱😢

Yep nitro & brake fluid isn't the way to go a fox body I had totally disintegrated to nothing! literally it just washed away down the sink when I used that concoction😭 good informative vid 👍

Nitro as well as brake fluid will not have any kind of effect whatsoever if there's any kind of quality polycarbonate paint lime the traxxas spray paint and your just going to be literally pouring money away if you use either of those as paint stripper. Keep the nitro fuel in the tank and brake fluid in the master cylinder and purchase either of these tamiya products if you want to do things the right way! Awesome video and thank you for showing us how well it works

thanks for that info on the remover going to see if i can get a bottle and try it on a top force shell

That color certainly pops, i wasn't liking it too much initially but seeing it complete on the buggy it's growing on me, if it had perhaps some other color on one section or two like a fairly large white stripe on each side going across the sides kind of like a turbo scorpion or a single wider one across the roof & too the front.

Looks like an Associated racer.. awesome

Considering the wing: I would have sprayed it firstly in white from either side, doesn't matter. And afterwards sprayed it yellow from both sides. That way you would have had white backing for a very popping yellow from all sides. But still awesome work and admiring persistence an the cleaning job. Love your channel!

Look awesome and great information

Hi mate another great vid thanks With the wing you could have put the white paint on after the first coat of yellow then backed that with the yellow again

Great video and information,have a great weekend.

Hi Glenn, you done a awesome job getting the paint off, great choice with the colour you used. 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻

Love it great job

Awesome colour!

What a nice job ❤💪

Here in the UK I've found De-Solv-It graffiti remover which is polycarbonate safe, and available at B&Q

Looks pretty good. On the wing make one layer of green, a second on white, and a third on green. So you have not the problem with the transparency. Greetings

Next week can we put it back to orange😁? Also that buggy needs a Tamiya Legends decal!!! Patience and determination levels=Master! Thanks Glenn, great content!

Great video. Just a heads up, I've used this on 2 bodies. The first was an original Monster Racer. It made it brittle with some cracking but the body was still ok after many washes. I painted it and then reinforced it with the shoo-goo trick. It's mint now. The second was a King-Cab TBG body that someone had painted terribly. This paint remover made the shell so brittle the wheel arches broke off and I had to throw it away. DO NOT USE ON A TBG BODY. REPEAT, DO NOT USE ON A TBG BODY.

This would probably got a lot faster if you used more liquid. Try soaking a small rag in the paint remover then roughly go over big areas of the body. This will likely remove large amounts of paint quickly. Once you've got the bulk of the paint removed thst way you can go back and detail the missed parts the way you're doing it in the video. It'll probably take a tenth of the time to do it thst way.

Great vid Glenn. If you ever need a new shell for the Durga kamtec in the UK sell a repro body and wing for about £8!!!

Cool RC car kit very nice 8uild

Looks great

Looks good, very bright 😎 If you have problems with the ball diff, there is a gear diff option 😉😂

KEEP your channel Glen, your too good. Excellent content as ALWAYS!!! 🤔.......Maybe chuck some more ads in the mix to bring in some cash, if that's possible😃👊

Looks sick mate with the white wheels it pops I would pay good money for that

Chrome polish and a dremmel with polishing pad for scratches:)

great job

Glenn I like it very much looks very cool, maybe put some numbers on it too which will finish it off :)

You have way more patience than I do. I would just buy a new body. Not crazy about the Neon Yellow but to each their own!

I use Tamiya paint remover for acrylic, lacquer and enamel paint, and you can reuse the remover even it turns dark from multiple stripped colour pigment and it hardly vaporise. I normally bath the whole part into it and wash it with foam soap. It will not make to plastic fragile, but it will dissolve putty and epoxy

I think white vinegar neutralises the paint remover and stops the chemical from eating away at the plastic after cleaning. I’ve used pure isopropyl alcohol to neutralise chemicals post-use before too. Not sure if it would work on lexan though 🤔

So after painting my first shell in pearl white the dreaded black black bumpers got underneath the masking so have just ordered this combo to rescue the expensive shell.

Got my polycarbonate paint cleaner from Germany,they posted to the UK no problems.

Interesting project. I do think the wing would benefit from a coat of white then a coat of PS27.

I like it

I did this on a shell and I got all the way through. Seemed clear as d food. Sprayed the new colour and found a few bits of paint I hadn't managed to clean off. Just dots of spray but the contrast in colour meant it showed up. I just left it and gave up. Ended up spending as much on cleaner as it would have been to get a new shell nearly so probably won't do it again.

The new paint scheme looks good. Have you ever done an ABS (hard Tamiya body) shell? If so, what have you used to remove the paint?

Purple power, or super clean works. Just soak the body in it for about 24 hours and it’ll pretty much wipe right off, and it’s environmentally friendly if you’re concerned about what Greta thinks 😁 lacquer thinner works but can sometimes cause clouding

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Glenn,its to late now BUT you should also try using different cloth to rub the paint with. Tissue really dries quick. Try different rag types,i bet you will see a difference.

Does this remover makes the body clouds?after remove

shame that does not work on the hard bodies as I still has a broken Clodbuster to fix up and still have paint to remove, that took the paint off really good but its a lot of hard work but saying that the end result looks amazing!

If I want to strip a shell I line the painted side with paper towels and wet them with Tamiya polycarbonate cleaner then put the whole lots in a ziplock bag removing as much air as possible. Leave over night and all the paint comes off with out a problem.

Small pieces of duct tape pulls of paint quite quickly depending on the paint job,how old etc.

Does it works with spray can Tamiya TS and Surface Primer? I'm painstakingly tried with IPA 😄

I would have poured the paint remover in a dish and took a paint brush and painted it on. Let it set for a couple of mins them whipped the paint off. And then take the poly and use it to take any clouding or smeard paint off. Then ur not using up as much as the poly. That's just me thought! Hope it works out great for u. And I think it will come off slot faster and with less effort and abuse to it elbow. LoL..

A cheap airbrush might be the way to go as it would provide a constant misting of solvent instead of dipping a rag and it evaporating before it's done its job?:)

It's Tamiya, it has to be good...

From experience, nitro fuel is a very safe method of removing standard acrylic paint. It won't make lexan brittle or cloudy. It's probably the second thing I try after standard alcool. However it won't work on PS paint, which is especially designed to resist nitro fuel. For PS paint, you need tamiya PC cleaner or carson paint remover, which is about the same but less expensive. I also had some success with floor cleaning products. Never tried brake fluid but we hear more horror stories about it than people having used it successfully.

You have a cute cat! Perhaps maybe we get a proper introduction to him/her in a future video.

If only I knew this before I butchered my original lexan Chevvy shell a few years (a lot of years) ago..... Lol

I wonder if the paint remover is the same as Carson Paint Killer?

Is it better or the same like the Carson Paintkiller ? Did you ever use the Carson one ? Did you only hear good News for the Carson product ?

Would cotton makeup (those circular things my missus tells me she needs) work as good as cotton buds??

My lexan always gets really foggy by the time I finish

Today I bought the Tamiya paint remover. Almost 2 hours later and it does not seem to do much.... any help ? It kinda looks like its working but not too sure. I bought an second hand body for about 7 US dollars xD Dont know what paint was used for the body

Beware! I used nitromors on my original Avante body to remove the old and tired paint job and it melted the whole thing.

hi i got 959 rims and i would like to take the paint off u would u use this thanks

I can't even get the Poly cleaner, looking everywhere, not in stock, can't order from Japan because they do not ship to the U.S. because of COVID.

My take on it is this. It takes such a long time to get a shell clean, that it only makes sense if you cannot buy another one. When doing up the price of the remover, cotton and what else have you, I see no point when you also factor in the cost of labour. I could be doing better things with my time that would make my life easier and save money elsewhere, so I don't see the point unless you cannot get a new shell.

I ended up using nail polish remover because its cheaper. Then poly cleaner at the end.

that intro cut, lol

I did it on transformers toys but it had a shocking reaction problem it didn't erased easily but only lacquer thinner do, I am never going to use this paint remover again.

The good stuff is Methoxy Propanol.

Medline cotton tipped applicators NDS202000

Dude won’t need this on your vanquish! Coming back for 2020!!! 58686

Awesome stuff Glenn Can i hire u for cleaning a body i have ? :) Tamiya polycarbonate cleaner u can buy from Germany, no problemo

Nitro nut here; fuel does not harm the paint any. We paint our lids the same way electric guys paint theirs, with the same paints.

Its cheaper quicker and safer to buy a new body shell!

Doesn’t work on Pactra paint that is a real pain to remove - De Solve It works but discontinued because of EU laws.

You forgot to mention one thing: Did the fumes make you HIGH ?

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I've used the paint remover to do my wild dagger and works great , www.drifted.nl/nl/tamiya-body-cleaner-for-polycarbonate-body.html a dutch store sells it. Yeah, I'm Dutch.

I would be tempted to scuff up the inside first to cut through the outside of the paint film, increase surface area and get to the heart of the paint. I would then airbrush sections with the paint cleaner a panel at a time, it should waste less of the cleaner.. Leave it for a while to soften and then come in with the soaked cloth. I used to wear socks that day-glo yellow colour to school in the 80’s. 😬 By the way, you shouldn’t do the disclaimer at the end. Your viewers are not children or idiots so if they bugger things up, maybe they’ll learn a valuable life lesson.

Never cut inside a shell the masking tapes.

To muck talk!!!. I should be moving forward and forward. Just to find the. Painting job.