Best Product and Technique for Stripping Paint

[CCGWR]

Hi All,

 

What do people find is the best product and technique for stripping paint off rolling stock and locomotives for the purpose of re-paints? I am relatively new to the respraying process but pretty successfully repainted a Bachmann 4575 from GWR Green to Wartime Black. I used Testor's paint stripper for this  (I think the exact name is something like 'Easy Decal Lift Off'). I mostly applied this with a paintbrush and seemed ok. I recently stripped a Heljan Hymek body with Tamiya paint remover which was applied with brush and then removed with a cotton bud (as per the instructions). This worked well but due to the sticky nature of the remover, the cotton buds started to fray and stick to the model, I tried a second brush but this didn't really remove it super well. Is there a good product (I can get in Australia) that I could just soak the model in and brush it off. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Cheers Connor 

[Graham108]

There's plenty of threads covering this subject which a quick search of the forum will throw up - here's an example - 

Graham