As I resurrect some ghosts of projects past I have stumbled across some of my first painted miniatures. While they gave me pause for nostalgia they also gave me an opportunity to try out AK Interactive’s Paint Stripper. Anthony kindly gave me a bottle to play with.

I rounded up a batch of five 15mm minis for the experiment. Two were painted and three were primed with Krylon primer.

The instructions on the bottle suggest to “Swamp the pieces or apply product on desired areas with a brush.” You then leave the stripper to do its magic for one to three minutes and then clean it off with a brush and soap. Sometimes I am able to follow directions so that’s what I did!

So, after three minutes and a scrub with an old tooth brush and dish soap, not too bad! In fairness Krylon primer is pretty tough to remove. Now they are perfectly adequate to reprime and paint, but AK recommends more than one dunk for tough paint jobs. Three minutes was good, but what does an extra ten minutes look like? Ten seems like a nice round number…

Conclusion

Bam! This stuff works as advertised. It even dissolved some of the basing adhesive I had used previously. I can say confidently that I highly recommend this stripper. I am curious how it will work brushed onto a larger project. It would be pretty expensive to buy enough to fully submerge a larger scale vehicle. Maybe I will rescue something from eBay and give it a go.

Until next time remember, sometimes instructions aren’t just for suckers!