Strip-A-Kit Rides to the Rescue
By Tom Cleaver
When confronted with a paint finish that didn't turn out, or a completed model that later isn't as interesting as it seemed to be at the outset, most modelers will throw up their hands at the thought of stripping the model and starting over. For years, the only way to do this was the old "home-remedies" of oven cleaner or brake fluid: nasty, smelly, environmentally- dangerous stuff that didn't really do the job 100%, and were as likely to ruin the model as solve the problem. Made-for-the purpose products like Easy Lift Off will take off most painted finishes, but getting into the difficult places involves leaving the stripper on long enough to run the risk of destroying the glue joints and disassembling the model. So-called environmentally-friendly strippers like E-Safe require full immersion of the part to be stripped, for a fairly long period of time, and still aren't very effective. No wonder most modelers think of stripping a kit as one of the tortures of the Ninth Level of Hell!
Fortunately, modeler Rick Fluke has come up with the solution: "Strip-A-Kit." This product is environmentally safe, practically odor-free, fast-working and effective.