Paint stripping final

It's with great pleasure that I can announce that all of the historic Dettol jars have finally been emptied. 

The new nail varnish remover solution made it a dream to breeze through these toxic jars. I didn't write off any more jeans or toothbrushes either which is a bonus.

 The 1 litre bottle cost around £8 from eBay and was totally worth it.

I loooovvve this old Dwarf figure. I knew I had him somewhere in the toxic jars so was delighted to find him again.

He deserves to be a hero like Balin or someone.

Another beautiful old figure, pretty sure this is an old Perry Citadel sculpt.

Lone wolf citadel captain.

These old figures have a charm long forgotten.

This is a great Nick Lund Dwarf. It has his hallmark stamped all over it and has a great character.

An Asgard Dwarf with the characteristic stunning detail.

 

It was now time to start on the last jar...the Dark elves.

The Perry's did an amazing job designing these figures. The aesthetic of these characters would set the style of this race, that can still be seen even to this day.

Witch elf berserker with a two handed sword.

An evil wizard.

A classic! Mengel Manhide.

More stunning Dark elves. I fell in love with these figures as a teenager. Later in life I made it my goal to collect a force of them.

Before the Dark elves came the Night elf box set. It was in this box that the blue print for the later Dark elves was formed.

Here it can be clearly seen how the earlier Night elves became the later Dark elves. Armour and stylewize these figures are very close.

Also the use of crossbows that would become the Dark elf staple, first appeared in these earlier sculpts.

This was a real delight, these metal Transformers when stripped, revealed much more detail. The thick enamel covered all the tiny face details. This led to me grabbing all of the others and throwing them into the solution.

The gun detail too is good, definitely worth a dip.

This Dark elf musician brings back a lot of memories from a more carefree age.

A mucky couple of days but worth it. All the Dettol jars are now empty.

The big rubber gloves were such a good buy from eBay. They really made a difference when scrubbing these sharp little metal pieces. It's not wise to get any of the solutions on your skin and with thinner gloves, this tends to happen. They soon become holed and ware away exposing the skin.

Sideswipe in his thick enamel coat. This stuff covered his detailed head and gun details.

More improved Autobots.

Arcee shows an amazing improvement after the varnish remover. Tiny, faint details can now be made out.

Great figure showing newly revieled detail.

After the success of the others, prowl and Wheeljack were thrown into the solution. Once in, I topped up the solution so it just covered the figures.

They started to peel after a few moments.

Enamel covered figures...before their swim.

The field of battle.

The Dark elf masses.