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Reply to "Methods for Removing Factory Paint off Plastic Models?"

D500 posted:

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.

I agree that the original paint is the best base coat but when you start adding more layers of paint on top of that the details in the car body start to fill up with paint. Lines are not sharp anymore but rounded.

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