A quick way to clean up painting mistakes.

[kturock]

It's new to me.
I use Simple Green for stripping plastic and Pine Sol to strip metal.

I'm painting the dreadfleet bases on the sprue. I sprayed them with flat black. Then I base coated them with a thinned GW's Deadly Nightshade. Nice & dark.
I'm a fan of inks & washes. So, I hit them all with a coat of GW's Blue Wash.
It looked good wet, but when it dried, it looked almost purple. UGH.
I try to rinse it off under running water. No good.

So I figure, let's try a Black Ink. Nope. Too black, even thinned. Back to the sink. It rinsed off because I only tested 1 base & didn't let it dry.
Blue wash? Nope. Too light.
Rinsed off.

So here I am with a sprue of bases needing to get stripped. I don't want to strip them entirely, just the top layer of wash.
I go get my bottle or reused Simple Green. I put it in an old spray bottle and spray it directly on the bases, and then rinse under running water.
I repeated a couple times until it was back to the base coat of DN.

So, I just found a new way to strip paint, that's not dried hard, or too hard.

[don_mondo]

Thanks for sharing!

[porkuslime]

Nice to hear! I have always thought that stripping was an "All or Nothing" sort of thing..

[MagickalMemories]

This is a good thread, but I'm going to move it to a more appropriate "discussion" forum.

Eric

[YoungWolf777]

Windex or other glass cleaners are also great for removing inks. I've spilled inks on my paint desk multiple times and it cleans right off, even after drying.