Customizing Q&A Thread

[dak]

are you looking to dry brush, or just spray paint it? there's a few tutorials in our tutorial section that help with that.

[brr-icy]

other than rubbing alcohol, does nail poilish remover take factory paint off? or will it damage plastic?

[GMfan]

It does take off paint but it makes the plastic brittle and liable to snap. So for removing paint I would use a 70% isopropyl rubbing alcohol bath. Leave the pieces in there for an hour or more and then wipe them down with paper towel.

The nail polish remover I find works faster but only use it if you're using it on thick plastic. AVOID JOINTS AND PINS....nearly destroyed the opening back on Classics Starscream making Thundercracker

[brr-icy]

ok, i want to remove all the factory paint from classics jetfire to make him into dreadwind, so avoid nail polish remover then? where do you buy it? shoppers?

[GMfan]

Ya you can get both rubbing alcohol and nail polish remover at shoppers....if you want to remove all the factory paint from him lemme give some tips

*goes and digs his Jetfire off the shelf...

ok the red on his crotch piece can be nail polished, same with the black paint on his "pauldrons". You can pop of the nose that splits to the sides of his chest and give them an isoproply bath....the rest is where it'll get tricky the rear tail fins are pinned in and getting those pins out looks like a nightmare....you could nail polish remover them but you risk breaking them since they are thin plastic. The main wing aren't easily detachable either and would require nail polish remover as well (same risks as before). The cockpit easily pops off, the back part can easily be thrown into the bath, but the main piece and the helmet have clear plactic underneath. Once the paint is removed you'll have an overall clear piece. Actual head can be iso bath'd.

I know there's not much paint on this guy but removing it seems like a night mare to me. In the long run it may be easier to just paint over whats already there instead of removing it. Be it a straight up paint job over what's there, or prime first then paint.

[brr-icy]

ok, i have him as far disassembled as possible, i think he might get a straight up repaint, except i want to mod the face so it is more dreadwind/less jetfire

[GMfan]

You;re gonna need someone else's advice for that one....I'm not one for sculpting....yet....

>: D

[brr-icy]

i know how lol, i have some thin plastic sheets to make his facemask

[brr-icy]

the paint on this is extremely resilient, some peeled quick, but the red on the fuselage is very hard, it's been soaking for like two hours almost

[TTT]

Use an old tooth brush & scrub em down !