In the past I've used oven cleaner to remove paint from plastic kits with good success.

Now I've just painted some resin ammo crates and am really unhappy with the results, so I want to strip them and repaint them. Can anyone forsee any problems using the oven cleaner with resin parts? Has anyone tried this before and succeeded?

Thanks for your help guys,


Sean

Hi Sean,
After hearing about using oven cleaner for years, I just recently tried it for the first time. And it worked just great on resin for me. I've now used it on figures fron several different kit manufacturers with no problems on any of them.
One thing I keep hearing about is spraying it on, putting it in a bag and letting it set overnight. What I've done is spray it on, let it set for an hour or two and rinse it off while scrubbing with an old toothbrush. If needed, I'll repeat this and it takes off all but the paint and primer in the very deepest and smallest of folds. No real difference from when I've let it set iovernight except I can get back to priming it the same day.
Just my experience
Good luck,
Craig

Sean, what can I tell you... oven cleaner is my good friend.

I've used it zillion times on my resin figures and it was always a good experience. As Craig suggested, use a bag or some sort of container for spraying the figure... you can let the oven cleaner on resin for several days without problem. I usually wait overnight, but the paint can be stripped with a toothbrush an hour after spraying. If some specks still hold, repeat the procedure.

Mario

Ditto Craig and Mario. I too use a soft bristled toothbrush dipped in hot soapy water to scrub the plastic clean. (The oven cleaner I use is called 'Easy Off' Heavy Duty - it rips through all types of paint no problem.)

Oven cleaner is defiinatly the easyer and quickest method to remove paint before i used to leave the model to soak in brake fluid and it would take for anything up to a week to remove paint and then still not get it all off It works brillantly on resin for me aswell as using it on vinyl figures and on normal plastic kits. Works especially well at removing chrome that the factory have sprayed.

Brilliant - thanks for the replies everyone

Sean