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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ledded" data-source="post: 2049518" data-attributes="member: 12744">Nryfherder, the wings on that clix repaint are awesome.  Very nice work. Just to update a little, I have tried several of these methods recently with various clix miniatures and here are my actual results.  I will try to post up some pics in my miniatures thread soon. I took pine sol and goof-off, put a quantity of both in separate glass jars with sealable lids (so they wouldnt lose effectiveness through evaporation) and dropped in a few clix into each one.  I put different revisions of heroclix and Mage Knight minis into each one to see if there was any difference in the paint between older and newer sets. Results... goof off was the clear winner. I checked them all after a couple days, and the goof-off had done such a job on every mini that I put into it that the paint slid off with just finger pressure.  I used an old toothbrush to get the deeper recesses but it came off under running water pretty handily.  It did soften the plastic somewhat, but after a good rinsing and a couple days sitting out, the mini hardened back up with no loss of detail at all.  Actually, on one I did a little repositioning on while it was soft, and it was *much* easier than doing it when it was still painted, so I would suggest this method for anyone who is going to do some converting and repainting. The pine sol did... nothing.  Nothing at all, not a thing.  I used Pine-Sol brand, full strength, and it didnt so much as fade the paint, and no amount of scrubbing removed paint.  Maybe it works on metal minis with normal acrylics, I dont know, but it certainly did not work on a single clix I used it on, and I left 'em in the sealed jar for almost 2 weeks.  They were, however, *really* clean and smelled nice. After this exercise, I did realize that if I was going to do repainting of my clix, from now on I will be stripping; there was a *huge* amount of detail on the figs that is just impossible to see under some of the thick paintjobs they have.  The ones I exposed were like completely different miniatures. Just my 2 cents on my own experiment.</blockquote>

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