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Operation: Runway strip

Learning something new has always been fun for me.

I am learning this new hobby and I plan to use this blog really as a blog... a web log1. Alas, also as a dictionary for the “future me.” Thus, I will be documenting everything I can think of that I am learning.

The first such thing is how to get rid of paint on miniatures. This is important for multiple reasons, and I have two main ones:

  • I am a beginner. I will have miniatures that I’ll want to re-do.
  • My very first project—painting the commander miniatures of Risk 2210 A.D.—is using pre-shaded miniatures. I want to start afresh.

After a very thorough 5 minutes of using DuckDuckGo, I ended up reading a tutorial about just how to do that2.

Commanders preparing for a bath

So, armed with isopropyl alcohol3 I have soaked all 25 miniatures (5 of each of the 5 commanders) for around an hour and spent another 1½ scraping them off with a toothbrush. I think it was worth it.

Just to be able to start from an "as clean as possible" state.

The pictures are before/after stripping the factory pre-shading.

Diplomat Commander

Land Commander

Naval Commander

Nuclear Commander

Space Commander

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog ↩

  2. Strip Paint off Miniatures Cheap and Easy – A How-To Guide ↩

  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopropyl_alcohol ↩