Mego Paint Remover

[jacoblb]

Hi everyone.

I've always appreciated the help I get here so thanks everyone!

I have a Mego head of Captain America, Captain Marvel, and Batman that I'd like to fix up and paint over. I've searched the threads to get a handle on what types of paint to use, but what about if I want to remove the old paint?

[kingdom warrior]

Straight acetone with a Q-tip. Then wash the head with baking soda and water to remove the chemicals......

[PNGwynne]

I use toluene-based thinner to remove paint from vinyl.

[REMOVED]

i have used windsor newton brush cleaner and remover on some doll heads. The nice thing about it is that it's not toxic. I haven't tried it on mego specifically but what I did use it on (1/6 scale vinyl heads) worked better than acetone or anything I've used only without the smell and toxicity. I read about it on a "reborning" forum. Yeah baby dolls.

[LonnieFisher]

Acetone is my choice also.

[boss]

believe it or not, I've had success using my fingernail to remove small areas of paint from mego heads.

[jacoblb]

Thank you for the suggestions! The brush cleaner would be ideal, but I have immediate access to a bottle of acetone at work in the lab so I'll swab some on my Captain America Mego during a break and see how it works. I have two Mego Batman's that I think I can salvage with simply painting over the cowl with interior blue auto paint and the rest of the skin tone and eyes I can manage with painting acyrilic by hand. Captain America is the worse of the bunch so he needs a complete paint remover maker-over.