Re: Removing paint from miniatures with Dettol

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Jun 28, 2012; 11:22am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Removing-paint-from-miniatures-with-Dettol-tp7578257p7578260.html

Excellent stuff Sjeng!

I've been meaning to do a proper write-up of the use of dettol for a while now - but it looks like you got it covered.
I have re-titled this made it an article in it's own right

The only thing I feel the need to add is quick warning to anyone who has any of the games from the Dark-World series by Waddingtons


The miniatures from the Dark-World games, cannot be stripped using Dettol, it reduces them to a melty, rubbery mess!

 ^ Once a Darkworld Dwarf and Zombie, now a smooshy mess

This, I suspect, is because Dettol softens Acrylic (which is why it strips Acrylic Paint) and the miniatures may have been made in Acrylic or a similar plastic. Please note these are the only miniatures I have had this happen with and pretty much every other company makes their plastic miniatures from styrene which is not effected by Dettol.

Please note I have not yet had chance to test Dettol on miniatures from Fantasy Flight Games, which I understand are made from PVC. I am also not sure about the plastic Privateer Press use from some of their WarMachine miniatures.