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<\/a><\/p>\nugh. What the hell?!<\/p>\n
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So that isn’t what I was expecting. My nice little ninja ended up looking like a bad 3D print from five years ago. Luckily something didn’t quite look right when I went to put the model back so I stopped there and didn’t go through the other 6 models.<\/p>\n
Yuck. A quick google search later and I found that I was likely victim of the common “primer fuzz.” Several theories abound but mainly weather or a bad can of spray can create this problem.\u00a0 Most think that it is the paint molecules curing mid-air and caking the model in solid clumps as they de-atomize in the air. I’m sure that’s a legit term and full on scientificry to boot, despite what my spell check is telling me.<\/p>\n The weather seemed fine as I primed this Frostgrave model at the same time.\u00a0 I shook both cans at the same time for my customary 2+ minutes and held both models away from the can approximately 8 inches (which is typical for me). Both cans are also relatively at the same end of life but I think the dark primer can just went bad.<\/p>\n I don’t do the whole “turn the can upside and spray til clean” recommendation that they ask so both are pretty gunked up, with the dark can noticeably more so.<\/p>\n A test spray on some cardboard showed a bit more scatter pattern with the dark and it definitely was “spitting” more but it didn’t seem terrible.\u00a0 I eventually decided it was the can and chucked it.\u00a0 The only other difference I could think of was that the ninja model had already been primed so maybe trying to prime it twice generated the primer fuzz result.<\/p>\n After running through my stripping options (as I couldn’t find a better way to clean up the model), I went with Simple Green.\u00a0 There’s a lot to like in this cleaner as it is mostly hazard free and yet still effective.\u00a0 I put the recommendation to the test and, even though it sucks to have to strip the model back down, I’d never actually tried it so I was excited to see how difficult it is.<\/p>\n I decided I wanted to try to save the base as much as I could so I wired the model up.<\/p>\n And then suspended it in a cheap mason jar with the wire poking through a small hole in the top.<\/p>\n The recommendation is to wait 24 hours and so this is at the the 24 hour mark.\u00a0 As you can see, flakes of the paint have already come off the model with no effort.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to pull the model free and work on it so it sat there soaking for almost a full week.\u00a0 Not a lot changed but leaving it in there that long definitely did a number of the base.<\/p>\n Pulling it out, I could already see a lot of the paint had been stripped.\u00a0 It was pretty messy but I think that was mainly due to the basing that got destroyed in the process. Globs of sand and glue came off in lumps as I unhooked the model from the wire and did a quick shake of the model in the Simple Green one last time.<\/p>\n I then used an old toothbrush and scrubbed the model.\u00a0 I deliberately was not gentle with the model and scrubbed vigorously under a running tap to get as much of the paint off as possible.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n