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Result!

Posted: 24 May 2010 18:55
by The Kraken Wakes
Bought what I thought was a Red Laser from Memorabilia for a fiver. It had been badly painted silver / grey.

Its been soaking in white spirit for a few weeks in an attempt to get the paint off, tried oven cleaner at the weekend and all the silver has been removed leaving a nice condition Red Laser with intact crotch!

Can really recommend Mr Muscle for removing paint / primer etc! Seems to love the jobs I hate, only thing it doesnt work on are factory paint apps and logos which is a good thing in this case!

Re: Result!

Posted: 24 May 2010 18:56
by paul463
Glad the Mr Muscle worked.

Re: Result!

Posted: 24 May 2010 19:04
by Thundershot
Was that the :laser:, badly, painted to look like :cobracommander: ?

Re: Result!

Posted: 24 May 2010 19:06
by The Kraken Wakes
Yes - he seems to have undergone a home made transformation.

Re: Result!

Posted: 24 May 2010 20:16
by gung-hoeddie
I may be able to save my red shadow yet.

Re: Result!

Posted: 24 May 2010 20:39
by The Kraken Wakes
I used it on some red shadow heads at the same time and they now look brand new.

Re: Result!

Posted: 25 May 2010 00:07
by Chopper
I have used degreaser to great effect. But one pair of arms I used to test I left in to long and the skin tones/forearms went white. Also the rubber in the Series 1-2 chaps can react differently to series 3/Hasbro plastic.

Good result tho, Krakers.

Re: Result!

Posted: 25 May 2010 01:20
by The Baron
Good news! I'm going to move the thread to Customs > Tips if you don't mind.

Re: Result!

Posted: 25 May 2010 07:12
by The Kraken Wakes
Of course wasnt sure where to put it.

One point is if your using it on lighter coloured soft plastics its a good idea to put white in with white etc. I put my painted skeletreon head in with some painted red torsos and the paint came off everything but Skeletron ended up with a nice flesh tone from the red.

Re: Result!

Posted: 25 May 2010 14:36
by The Baron
Paint it red!