Dettol Diaries (part III): Enamel paints
Wanting to explore the possibilities and limits of paint stripping miniatures with Dettol (first installments see https://laboratorium-ix.tumblr.com/post/179754151525/so-this-high-elf-from-the-lord-of-the-rings and https://laboratorium-ix.tumblr.com/post/179801833765/so-the-warriors-of-rohan-came-out-of-their-paint) I rummaged through some of my boxes to come up with miniatures that were painted with different kinds of paints and/ or made from different kinds of material.
This Space Marine from “Space Crusade” by Milton Bradley (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1568/space-crusade if you are curious) was covered with several THICK layers of enamel paint, Revell colours to be precise. And the paint has been on for, I don’t know any more, 15-20 years. I used a lot of Revell in those days, as I had the colours lying around from building military scale models of the same company.
As you can see enamel paint also cleans up quite nicely with this method. Although I admit that cleaning out paint rests from the nooks and crannies is an imperial pain in the ass, but that is a general problem and not to do with the difference between enamel and water-based colours. It should also be noted that the black/ grey areas on the back of the mini and its parts are not paint. Anyway at least not pure paint - it is plastic that melted and fused with the paint because of the modelling glue used (Revell glue does not work like super glue!).
1.) Dettol paint stripping works for Revell colours (and presumably also for related enamel modelling paints like Humbrol) on plastic. This of course also means that potentially you can use it to paint strip corresponding scale models (to be tested at some point).
2.) The plastic used by MB for Starquest was not attacked by Dettol, despite having been in there twice for a couple of days total.
