HOW TO: Strip Paint Off Models With Dettol
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Hey ho! Welcome to another handy HOW TO guide! This time, I show you how to strip paint from almost any mode using only standard household Dettol.
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It's also very handy having Dettol on your bench in case of any stabberties 👍
This stuff is magic. I recently picked up some second hand models with a lovely thick coat of god knows what on them, and simple green just would not cut it. A good nights soak in this stuff though did the trick!
Yay!
Very helpful, and satisfying to watch!
Thanks^_^
"It'll end in sadness. Maximum sadness." LOL Love it. I just got my Dettol and I'm using it to (hopefully) get 50 year-old paint off a few Aurora monster models. Fingers crossed, but thanks so much for this guide!
You are more than welcome, thanks :)
OH MY GOSH - I cannot believe how well this worked on a 61 year-old Aurora monster model. True, it also took out some of the glue, but I'm ok with that because it makes it easier to paint the parts separately. Two questions: 1) how long will the Dettol stay "potent" if it's in a covered plastic container...or is it one and done? Second, over here in the states it's WAY over priced. Can your recommend a shop on your side of the pond (that ships) that carries it at a decent price? Thank you so much!@@gurufoxx
@@roguehk Ha ha glad it worked for you! It should remain re-useable for years, to be honest, just try to somehow filter out most of the gunk and gloop and put it back in a sealed container or bottle and you are good to go.
As for where to get it from the UK, to be honest over here it is sold in pretty much any supermarket and convenience store and even pharmacies and it literally costs a few pounds as it is just an everyday product. I am not sure where I would suggest other than Amazon UK, but you will pay for the shipping costs there, so I can only suggest hunt around or, if you know anyone in the UK, see if they can arrange to send you some.
Just into the hobby and looking to get cheap models to get my skills up and found some spaces marines really cheap on ebay that need a good stripping... Already have dettol in the cupboard so it was an easy purchase after seeing this.. Thanks
Yay! Have fun!
Thanks for the tips. Much appreciated.
Any time ^_^
I was so relieved to see the model looking a bit minging at the end, just stripped my first model and it's all dark in spots, but hoping a good blast of primer will sort out most of my woes!
Yup, there'll sometimes be blebby bits left but as long as they aren't sticky-uppy or lumpy then it's all good :)
Thanks, great video.
Cheers, you're welcome!
Great advice. Thank you.
You are welcome :)
Great Video ! Great advice ! Dettol works good. For those in the U.S. Dettol can be a little expensive on Amazon. I recommend LA's Awesome Cleaner sold at Dollar General stores $3.00 US for 64oz.
Thanks for the tip!
Does it work as well at Dettol?
Thank you 🙌
You are more than welcome :)
just came to this video after my first model became a gloopy mess after trying to strip with detol. I may or may not have left all the old primer on the model and then scrubbed it with soapy water, (very very big mistake) the model became untouchable for a day and stunk the house out. i will not make that same mistake again thanks to this video 👍
ha ha glad it can be helpful. We've all done that :)
I used Dettol on my Bandai 1/72 Millennium Falcon, on its radio dish.
Id made a right pigs ear of painting it.
I diluted the Dettol with water & it worked a treat.
There was a gloopy mess on the first soak, but scrubbing with a toothbrush & some washing up liquid, rinse & re-soak with a fresh pot of diluted Dettol & the second soak & clean git rid of the rest of the gloopy mess & i was good to go with my re-paint.
There's really no point diluting the Dettol - it just makes it take longer to work and gives you that gloopy mess. Just use it neat next time, you won't have to do extra clean-up or a second soak :)
@@gurufoxx thank you for that.
I was just being cautious as you know the Bandai Millennium Falcon is expensive.
TBH, i didnt mind doing the extra soak, especially as i was advised to dilute it from the members of a model forum im a member of.
@@WickedSlimShady OHHH I totally didn't register that it was a Bandai kit you were working on! Yeah, you have to be SUPER careful with Bandai plastic. For safety, in all honesty I wouldn't even use Dettol at all, as it's the alcohol in it that's the potential risk, even diluted. I always use Oven Pride oven cleaner for their plastic, doesn't seem to do any harm :)
@@gurufoxxMe again,
I bought a Belkits Skoda Fabia off ebay already built for £13 & it needed some attention (like in Wheeler Dealers, lol)
BEFORE I saw this video I decided to strip the bodyshell with Dettol diluted & everything came off with no problem.
But then i was left with a lot of gunk & then AFTER i saw your video that I should have soaked in NEAT Dettol from the start to eliminate the gunk.
So i re-soaked the bodyshell in neat Dettol & while it has taken most of the gunk away, im left with little bits that feel literally welded on & i cant remove them.
Ive tried label remover spray i got from work, re-soaking in soapy water, WD-40 and nothing wont shift those last few bits of gunk.
Is there anything else I can try?
Maybe that Oven Pride oven cleaner you mentioned in your previous comment?
@@WickedSlimShady yeah, that gloop is what happens when water gets involved in the Dettol and paint equation (water and alcohol don't mix). You could try soaking it again in pure Dettol, but for a long time - I have no idea if that would work though. That gloop is like tarmac. Failing that, Oven Pride *might* work, but I have never used it for that. If all else fails, you may just have to remove it manually with blades and sanding, or write it all off as a learning experience and keep the model as a paint test mule (or paint it up as a decaying old barnyard find) :)
hey man thanks heaps for this video, just wondering if there is any risk at all for the plastic melting. Thanks
For regular polystyrene kits, your plastic should be perfectly fine. Bandai kits are a different story though; their plastic is super special and weird and explodes if you even look at it funny. YMMV with Bandai plastic s testing is strongly suggested.
Great vid, love the intro
Thanks :)
Just used your advice to strip a forge world praetor, worked a treat.
@@simonturner6734 Yay! Glad I could help (ad also your house now smells like 1970's primary school corridor)
@@gurufoxx all I need now is some shiny blue toilet paper and I'm back in primary school
@@simonturner6734 Ooooh, creased with those razorblade edges, ouchy
Really helpful thanks! Any idea if this process will work if the model is coated in miniature gloss?
It should strip off pretty much any kind of modelling paint or varnish ^_^
@@gurufoxx nice one, thanks! :)
Didn't see this video BEFORE i had a go with detol.
Needless to say i added water. Maximum sad factory right now.
Getting more dettol lol
ha ha ouch! I don't know if a further Dettol bath will remove the new goop, I have never tried it but it might work...
But you do get 100XP for saying "sad factory"!
Great video, thank you.
Any idea if this strips off Gloss Varnish as well?
Yeo, it will strip of pretty much anything, including many lacquer paints :)
@gurufoxx
That's great thanks, just tried it for the first time, left a few models overnight and the paint is coming off, but it's not a quick process, so I'm going to try leaving them to soak a bit longer.
For drying, do you recommend just taking them out of the solution and leaving to dry naturally? Or dab them with paper towels?
@@Viewer41Yep, sometimes overnight soaks are needed :) Once you have rinsed the Dettol off under the tap (make sure there is no paint, or almost no paint left!) you should leave it to air-dry for a while, just like when you clean resin parts. Tissue wouldn't get all the water out of all the little nooks and crannies.
TOTAL SAD FACTORY 😂 LEGEND
Have you ever tried Bartoline Clean Spirit...? I have had good results with it; acrylics just fall off, lacquers and enamels need a bit of agitation, it doesn't seem to affect the plastics I've tried, doesn't evaporate (or smell) at room temperature like IPA. I have no idea what it is, but it "feels" like CS is some kind of detergent.
Oooh, never heard of that. Might have to try that out at some point :)
In the interests of sustainability, could you let the paint bits settle fir a few hours and decant the dettol back into bottles for use another day?
Yep, or you could get some filter paper or use tissue as a filter paper to filter most of the grak out, leaving nice, reasonably clean dettol :)
I wish i watched this sooner, i got water in my dettol soaked miniature 😭
Oh no! it's one of those things you only do once :)
Will this work fine with clear parts? I always ran out of talent when it comes to painting canopies especially the ww2 bombers windscreen 😂
I haven't actually tried it on clear parts, to be honest. It would remove paint no problem, but I don't know if it would discolour it - worth testing on a spare clear part :) However, if you have a wonky paint line on a clear canopy, it's also possible to straighten up the lines by simply GENTLY running a cocktail stick along the frame - paints and primers don't grip all that well to clear parts so can be very gently scraped away from the window bit, leaving a nice straight edge along the canopy frame. If you want to learn how to mask and paint canopies easily, here's a handy guide: th-cam.com/video/WEZ8W1RXVFY/w-d-xo.html
Hey, thanks for the vid! Very helpful as I've got myself a lot of models stripped!
I just have a quick question - do you know what would happen if the dettol dries on the model? Call it paranoia but I would hate to miss that there's still some paint on the model and go to dry it off and cause the goopiness you mentioned. If you're not sure though then no worries
Honestly I have never left it on to dry out like that so I am not sure. It would certainly smell nice lol. As long as you have scrubbed off the majority of the paint and at worst only tiny specks remain here and there in nooks and crannies you won't get the goopies when you rinse it under the water tap :)
@@gurufoxx Ok, thanks again my man, appreciate the reassurance.
I was about to use this with a bandai hg model kit. Hmmm.
Honestly, with Bandai plastic I would not take the risk. if you need to remove mekki plating from parts (that silver or gold plating they do) then an over cleaner is much safer (I use Oven Bright which is a gel). As Dettol contains alcohol I am not sure that it would be safe on Bandai plastics.
@@gurufoxx thank you. 🙏🏻
I’ve had the paint go all sticky in the past but can work
Different paints react differently. And you must make sure you NEVER mix water, Dettol and paint ^_^
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Works a treat on vinyl figures
Thanks for this video. I hope this isn't a stupid question: to what extent can you re-use the Dettol? Can you for example strip a figure, then use the old Dettol again on a second figure, or is that a big no-no?
It's actually perfectly fine to do that if you wish, it will keep working for qute a while. You might want to strain out any of the gloopy nonsense after each use though ^_^
@@gurufoxx thanks!
Which of tooth is recommended? Soft?
Any will do for plastic and metal, softer may be better for resin to avoid scratching the surface
Is it best to wash off the dettol immediately (with warm soapy water) or let it dry, and then wash off as above? Minor paint residue in crevices won't go clumpy if still damp from the dettol scrubbing step? Thanks!
I would actually say an even better process that I found since I filmed this, is to brush and scrub everything off in the dettol as normal, then dunk the model in JUST washing up liquid, and scrub again for a bit, to remove any remaining paint or dettol, and THEN just go to water to rinse of the washing up liquid. The extra washing up liquid step helps make sure there is almost no paint or dettol left on the model when it hits the water and so minimises the risk of any nasty gloopy reactions.
@@gurufoxx nice, thanks will give it a go! makes sense since i found that gloopy residue does inevitably remain in joints of stuff no matter how careful you are where water is involved
@@blessedpeas Water reacts with the dettol and the paint to make gloopy sadness ^_^
@@gurufoxx i may or may not have done this before watching ur vid is there a way to reverse the process
@@mikeoxmal1028 You got water in the mix and ended up with gloop? Oh no :(
I'm not sure to be honest, as I have thankfully managed to avoid it so far...I can only suggest putting it back in the dettol again for a while to see it it strips the goop off. Fingers crossed!
If you can't use Dettol to strip paint off Bandai models, what would you recommend to remove paint from them?
If you are in the UK, I have used Oven Pride oven cleaner in the past to remove mekki plating from Bandai plastic, and it didn't damage the plastic.
Dettol *might* be okay, but I have never used it on Bandai and it does contain alcohol, so there is always the chance it damages the plastic. I would say test it on something you don't care about first :D
Can you reuse the Dettol? Does the Dettol have any negative effect to your skin?
Sure, you can filter the Dettol out to get rid of most of the sludge, but in most places it's fairly cheap anyway. The Dettol will not do any real harm to your skin unless you have your hands in it for a long period of time but it will sting like a bugger if you have a cut - if you don't know, Dettol is an antiseptic solution that has been used by mums for generations, damping cotton wool with it and wiping it on their kids' scraped knees and cuts and bruises to clean them up, and used to be used in soapy water for cleaning floors and such in schools when kids barfed anywhere :D. Any kid growing up in the 1970s will know that brief sting, and that smell :) It's usually best to wear gloves just so that you don't spend all day walking around with hands that smell like a 1970s school corridor :)
Does this work on resin?
Absolutely, works on anything :)
will this damage the plastic on transformers?
If you mean transformer toys then I have no idea as there is no way to know what plastic they are made from. Dettol causes no harm to polystyrene (that most model kits are made from) and resin or metal, but beyond that you would have to test on a spare item you were happy to risk breaking I guess.
@@gurufoxx oh i see then do u know away i can get rid of tamiya clear coat on a transformer?
@@astrotanker3887 You'd have the same issue no matter what you used, to be honest, as Tamiya Clears are lacquers so need something with a kick to get them off, and Dettol would me probably one of the least damaging things. Also often used are oven cleaners, Simple Green, Purple Power, isopropyl alcohol and even brake fluid (although brake fluid is stupendously toxic and poisonous and in many places is illegal to pour down the drain so should be avoided). It may be that the plastic would be totally fine with ANY of these, but without knowing what plastic it is made from, there is no way to be sure in advance. Also keep in mind it may well remove any other paint on the plastic as well :D
@@gurufoxx oh okay thanks ive tried IPA 99% and it still wont really come off
@@astrotanker3887 IPA is a pretty strong solvent but might have no effect on some lacquers. Of course, you need to leave these things to soak, I sometimes have to let stuff sit in Dettol for 24 hours depending on the paint I am stripping.
I filter the dettol back into a bottle afterwards because I’m as tight as a ducks arse
Nowt wrong with that at all!
Appreciate I’m quite late to this vid, i used dettol to strip my old chaos models. I made a mistake and dunked mine in warm water and now they are covered in a black sticky sludge. If I keep adding them back into dettol without water will they be saved? Or is it a final battle with the dustbin?
Oh no! Oops. That's the primer and paint all gunged because of the water :( To be honest, I have not found anyone online suggesting how to get rid of that, so I can only suggest another Dettol bath to see if it breaks it all up again, followed by some hardcore scrubbery! If they are metal minis, you can go with more violent strippers a d leave them to soak in such things as as isopropyl alcohol or lacquer thinners, as they will not damage the metal, but you'll not want to do that in the house. That may also eat away any CA glue that was holding them altogether ^_^
@@gurufoxx thanks for the advice, I’ve got a really old metal aspiring champion so I’m annoyed at myself I got a bit gun ho without researching. I’ve left it in a jar of new dettol again and gone to work 😂 will update you if I can rescue them lol
@@amoswhistle1 If all else fails. maybe FLAAAAAMES lol
@@gurufoxx so got an update I left my metal model in new Dettol for 24 hours, I soaked it in fairy liquid and then gave it a good scrubbing. It has actually cleared a lot of the black gunk away. I’ve soaked it again and will leave it until tomorrow morning where hopefully it’ll be ok
@@gurufoxx as the for the plastic ones though, think they are ruined lol
I come to this video after I already made the water mistake and my models and encased in paint blobs now :’(
Oh no! You are not the first. Stick them back in the Dettol for a day or more and see if it loosens it up, you might get lucky (but test it on one first, to make sure they aren't damaged by all the extra soaking). If they are metal, put them in something hardcore like isopropyl alcohol or solvent-based thinners because metal can take anything :)
Why wouldn't this work on Bandai models?
Bandai plastics are different to normal kits - they use a lot of ABS (which is damaged by thinners and solvents) and their polystyrene is not "baked", which means it is also vulnerable to thinners and solvents, more so than regular polystyrene. You could find your parts broken, weakened or totally dissolved by anything containing isopropyl alocohol, mineral spirits or Xylene.
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@@gurufoxx On a serious note managed to strip a lot of gunky stuff off my old models, still stinks of dettol but its a start. Any advice on getting rid of the paint in the very hard to reach crevices? I did transfer the models in the soapy water then dried them off, will it matter if there is still a bit of paint on there if I am priming it again?
Thanks for making the video by the way!
@@trydodgingthis Ha ha yeah, Dettol smell lingers! Your models will always have that school corridor whiff :) It's normal to have some little tiny blips of paint in hard to reach crevices, you can always use a dental pick or dull pin similar to gently pick them out but if they are very tiny and flat it's always possible they will not be visible once primed over.
@@gurufoxx Thank you my friend and thank you for a very good video I really enjoyed it. Take care :)
@@trydodgingthis You are more than welcome :)
It's so expensive I dilute it.
Diluting it makes it less effective tbh so it might take longer to strip. You can re-use it over and over quite a few times though, no need to buy more every time. It should only be £2-3 from your local supermarket.