[irishtrek]

Try soaking it in Simple Green for a few days. Or you can take a q-tip dipped in rubbing alcohol and rub away but the down side to that is how many q-tips you'll end up using and how long they last. And the fresher the paint the easier it will come off.

 

[irishtrek]

100 degree weather?? Not in a few weeks, and this week it's in the 70's with rain moving in for the weekend.

 

[irishtrek]

How 'hard' did you rub the q-tips over the painted areas?? The original Pine-Sol would do the trick also, just check then every day until the paint comes off. Should take more than a few days.
Also housing costs have gone thought the roof here and it does not look to be stopping any time soon.

 

[irishtrek]

If it's months old rubbing with a Qtip soaked in alcohol would take forever, either soak it in rubbing (isopropyl) alcohol or wet a paper towel and set it on the paint, wrap saran wrap around it to keep the alcohol from evaporating.

I recover old acrylic paint bottles by soaking in soapy water for a few days, softens it up no matter how old, so it's just a matter of time and if you want the entire thing cleaned of paint.

Does it matter what kind of soap???

 

[irishtrek]

A paper towel with alcohol on it didn't work?? Then forget that method and just soak in some pine-sol for a few days.

 

[irishtrek]

And just how long will the ammonia take to strip the paint, a week, 2 weeks or more or less???

 

[irishtrek]

Exactly which kit is it, 1/1000, 1/537, 1/2500 or /350 scale??