[MrFortunato]

ok... so, i've decided to change my colour scheme. to the scheme from the cities of death book
for those of you who dont know what it is, here's a pic:


now, i want to do something about my commander, because i want to change scheme, he's done in my old scheme, which is the conventional T'au one:


my dilemma is, i dont know what to do with him, should I?
1)i paint him in the new scheme, by simply starting the process i do for white over the browns...
2)i spray black, and do the above
3)i get a commander of FW, although thats wasteful... :/ then do the above 2

[SteelPanther]

I'd spray him black, if you got the primer. You could also get some Paint Stripper and do that for all your old units.

Ask around in the Painting forum for Paint Stripper.

[MrFortunato]

i dunno about spraying him you see , purely because i've already done that with 3 FWs in his scheme, and they have this weird, 'shiny' thing going on, dont wanna risk it on him, ill have a look around for paint stripper though

[SteelPanther]

You have pics of the "shiny" Fire Warriors?

[khanaris]

Try using a matte varnish. Using multiple spray undercoats will smooth out most of the surface roughness on the model, making it look shiny. You can take some of that off with a varnish, although if you used too much paint it is inevitably going to look a little globby.

[Gearhead]

Easy Off oven cleaner is, for whatever reason, awesome for stripping plastic models without damaging them. If you can get that, use it. Wear gloves.

[MrFortunato]

where can you get that?, is it available in the UK?

(i've started doing n0 1 on the list above, so if it goes pear-shaped he'll be stripped )

cheers

[crazyguy832]

Dunk him in brake fluid (my preferred paint stripper, but any will do) and repaint. As someone who has actually primed over paint (over primer, lol) on a crisis suit... it doesn't work. It really, REALLY doesn't work.

;D

[Gearhead]

I believe so, I get mine at Walgreen's for around $7. Brake Fluid works too (Pine Sol Works on metals, not so well on plastics), but I prefer the spraycanniness of the Easy Off. Spray it (Wear gloves, it's important), let it sit, and take a toothbrush to it later.

[runer60000]

Originally Posted by Gearhead

I believe so, I get mine at Walgreen's for around $7. Brake Fluid works too (Pine Sol Works on metals, not so well on plastics), but I prefer the spraycanniness of the Easy Off. Spray it (Wear gloves, it's important), let it sit, and take a toothbrush to it later.

so what your saying is that oven cleaner can remove paint from plastic models? and after that, you take a toothbrush to your plastic model, and the paint just comes off?