Aloha All,

I just wanted to report that Windex is great to use when you need to strip acrylic paint from your model.

I recently botched the paint job on a Sdkfz. 222 and submerged all the parts in a bucket filled with Windex for about 30 - 45 minutes and the paint was dissolved off the model. A couple areas still had a paint haze and needed a soft scrub with an old toothbrush, but it came off easily. It also rinses easily with water.

I never tried oven cleaner or brake fluid, but Windex seems less toxic. I also don't know if it would work for enamels or oils, as I had so far only put acrylic on the model.

Hope this can help somebody out.

Happy Modelling, -zon

very true, i always use Windex to fix my painting mitakes its works great with Tamiya acrylic paints... also i use Windex to clean my airbrush gun too

Cheers everybody!!!

Yes, that's the cheapest way to strip paints, but not just the acrylic ones

If you soak the model overnight or more, you'll be able to remove enamel paints and even the primer

I did it quite a lot of times. The most part of paint goes away, I remove some residual stains with a hold toothbrush

The only problem could be that the Windex can detach small pieces glued with CA (and sometime also small parts put on the kit with plastic glue...)

But if you don't lose the parts you'll be able to reattach it

Cheers