Just a quick blurb about one of the more useful hobby tools you can get: Simple Green! On many forums I constantly see people asking the best way to strip the paint from models. I've tried brake fluid, pine sol, SuperClean, etc, and SG is superior to all of them. It works faster, won't harm plastic or resin, and is NON-TOXIC so drink all you want! (I'm kidding.) You will still need a toothbrush or similar device to give your models a scrub after their dip, but most of the paint will slide right off. Also, any loosened paint will just settle to the bottom so in a dedicated container your supply of SG will last a long time.
I've found an additional use as well-- thinned down (3:1 water to SG mix) it works to remove release agents from resin models. I recently got some FW goodies and soap didn't do the trick; brush-on primer was sliding all over the place. SG fixed things right up, and I highly recommend it as a safe, useful hobby tool.
