Ye Olde Inn

Hello All,
I brought my miniatures from Hero Quest (US main system), and I have gotten a lot better at painting, so it's time to repaint them. However, I need to remove the paint. I have seen lots of things online about how to do this, and I am also told that nail polish remover will damage the figurines. However, I am in South Korea, so I need something that I can get here. I know you can import anything from Amazon.com, but even if the price is cheap, shipping costs are outrageous. Any ideas?

Soak them in Simple Green for 2 days. Then scrub them with an old toothbrush under a slow stream of water.
Most of the paint should come off easy enough. Then there will be some left on some miniatures. Soak them again in clean Simple Green for a few more days and scrub them again.

That gets off most mini paint I have encountered without harming the mini's.

If you remind me, I'll pester my fiancee ( a chemist by trade) as to what the chemical is in the verious products we all use.

in my case, it's dettol.

I think we have about 15 threads dealing with this.

Dettol but don't add any water.

mitchiemasha wrote:Dettol but don't add any water.

yes, this. NO water. pure dettol or simple green.

Apparently the active chemical is either benzalconum chloride or chlorhexadine. I can't spell those names...

Edit: Now updated to "chloroxylenol". APparently that's the chemical that actually strips teh paint.

slev wrote:"chloroxylenol". APparently that's the chemical that actually strips teh paint.

It also strips the nails from my toes.

I can't get simple green or dettol here. That is the point of my post...

Where do you live?