HARMONYARDS, above: "I do not try and strip paint from plastics.....there is no need. use the factory finish as your substrate....."
I concur. There certainly are pieces that just need to lose a lot of complicated, showy and hard-to-sand-off graphics actually stripped from them, but when you can skip it using the methods suggested (I use similar tactics), you are ahead of the game.
To quote (roughly) a repaint article from Model Railroader a number of years back: "you will never find a better primer coat than a factory paint job".
Use it if you can, I'd say.
