A Bad Priming Job - time to do some stripping

I have been painting miniatures for a long time now and you would think that I would, at least, have the priming part of the process down by now. I spent last week prepping a bunch of minis for my western town of Calamity. Most of these were Reaper minis that I brought back from ReaperCon but I also had some Dixon, Wargames Foundry and Black Scorpion mixed in there as well. Although I didn't intend to paint all of them at once I find its more efficient to prime as many miniatures as possible in one shot. So I did. Grabbed a can of Army Painter White Primer and noted that it was running low. That should have been the red flag right there. I happily proceeded to prime about 30 miniatures or so and without a second look left them to dry. The next day I grabbed some to take with me to paint at the CMPA's monthly, 2nd Saturday, workshop. There I discovered that my primer job was fuzzy. That is it was not a nice smooth coat, it was gritty, you could see little beads of paint on the surface, well not before I started to paint the skin on five miniatures anyway. So yea, I managed to both the priming on a bunch of miniatures that now need to be stripped down and re-primed. This time I'm going in with my airbrush and some nice acrylic Vallejo grey primer.

So here is my process for stripping minis:

Although hard to see in this small thumb nail, click on the image to see a larger  picture and you  can see just how rough the surface is.

The fuzzy primer is more obvious on this miniature where I started to paint the skin. Again click on the picture to see a larger image.

My stripper of choice. Just think what it would do for kitchen floors!

The first victims about to be submerged

Covered in a nice blue layer of Pine Sol

Tub #2

And the soaking begins

I'll let these sit for a couple of hours and then break out the old toothbrush.