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Removing acrylic paint

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I need to know how to remove acrylic paint off of a figure. It's not sealed.

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Paint thinner or nail polish remover should work. Should.

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Spartanz19 wrote:
Wed May 06, 2020 12:11 am
Paint thinner or nail polish remover should work. Should.
I should recommend being careful with thinner. I never used it on a figure, but paint thinner has ruined 3 brushes. It gets in the plastic and turns it to mush.

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Can it just be scrapped off?

Sometimes all you need is a bit of paper folded several times to use as a sanding block.

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ArtfulConch wrote:
Wed May 06, 2020 9:26 am
Spartanz19 wrote:
Wed May 06, 2020 12:11 am
Paint thinner or nail polish remover should work. Should.
I should recommend being careful with thinner. I never used it on a figure, but paint thinner has ruined 3 brushes. It gets in the plastic and turns it to mush.
So you used a brush with thinner? I've never tried that, I just used an old rag and cleaned the paint off of my project.

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Spartanz19 wrote:
Wed May 06, 2020 2:17 pm
ArtfulConch wrote:
Wed May 06, 2020 9:26 am
Spartanz19 wrote:
Wed May 06, 2020 12:11 am
Paint thinner or nail polish remover should work. Should.
I should recommend being careful with thinner. I never used it on a figure, but paint thinner has ruined 3 brushes. It gets in the plastic and turns it to mush.
So you used a brush with thinner? I've never tried that, I just used an old rag and cleaned the paint off of my project.
I soak old brushes in thinner when I use enamel paint outside of mega customs. It gets enamel out of the brushes, but it also gets the plastic out...

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So I put some figures in basic store brand window cleaner for about 2 days and it worked. I was able to get rid of about 85% of the paint. The only thing that was left was a little bit of the wash I did on them. You might try some window cleaner that has extra ammonia.


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