After a year of humming and hawing about getting into Horus Heresy

>>46291699
I tried Simple Green, but it didn't work well for me even with a 36 hour soak.
I ended up using Lemon Pine-Sol which stripped both a botched paint job and shitty glued-on sand with the added bonus of beautiful pine-scented Necrons.

I suggest expiriementing with different chemicals before dunking your entire army, find out what works best for you.

>>46291767

Thanks, I'll check out Lemon Pine-Sol and see how the two compare.

Is there an upper limit to how many times you can dunk an army to strip? I remember reading that Simple Green works best after two soaks.

I can understand shit like brake fluid turning your minis into soup, but can something like Simple Green or Pine-Sol do that too if applied over-enthusiastically?

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>>46291699
>lumbersexual
>no beard

FAAAKE!

Also, Castrol Super Clean is an engine degreaser which works wonderfully at stripping resins, metals and plastics. For disassembly, freeze and pull apart - even epoxy bonds surrender to this technique. If it's plastic parts bonded with plastic cement though, you're fucked. Xacto sells tiny saw blades for their hobby knives. Other than that, I did try the freezy-twist using needle-nosed pliers [padded with drinking straws to minimize marring], and the process yielded only @50% success rate in removing parts intact. That said, many of the broken 'subassemblies' were easily mended and re-used, and the rest went into the basing materials box ...

Good luck.

>>46295230

Yeah I've been doing some more research and it looks like Super Clean is a clear winner over Simple Green, so I will be re-adjusting accordingly.

Their heads are metal stuck with super glue, but the damn things had no problems falling off by themselves so I should be good on that front.

Unfortunately, everything else is welded solid with plastic glue, so I'm probably going to invest in a jewellers saw and a box of spare blades to slice through the join between the arms and torso.

>>46291699
LA's Totally Awesome works wonders. You still need to brush them off to get off most of the paint, but I was able to strip around 100 Marines in a weekend with it.