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Acetone works quite well - sometimes.

What (weirdly) works quite well a lot - Cilit Bang (or Bam! as its called here).

If you get get Simple Green, that works too. Finally get a stiff tooth brush. Patiently brush the paint off.

However, all this assumes the painter used acrylic paints - which is a plastic compound, which the above mentioned solutions sort of melt off.

Mithril, for its part recommends something called "brush protector" or something, which I've never seen. They used to sell it, but not any more.

Gavin

I think I will try with paint thinner and use Cilit Bang if the result is not good enough.
As soon as it is done, I give you some feedback.

Well I've heard about people using automotive break fluid, oven cleaners and a host of other expensive, explosive or otherwise toxic chemicals!  For myself, I use a floor cleaner called 'Pinesol' here in Amerika. One could Google it and find a suitalbe European generic version of this stuff.  It's cheap and doesn't catch fire! I just let those minis soak a few days and it seems to remove the worst paint jobs I've seem (so that I can substitute my own poor paint jobs:|).  One still has to use a brush to remove paint from the crannies.  I use a brass wire brush.  PS if you go with a toxic substance please do so with ventilation!  Our hobbies can be dangerous!!!

I tried this week-end to get rid of terrible painting from ebay sellers.
French Cilit-bang after getting soaked 48h did not work exept for 1 mini.
Acetone+ toothbrush worked instantaneously on 23 minis. On half of it, I even kept the undercoat at 90%.
What surprises me is that only 2 minis resisted with no paint gone: 2 old Prince August (not Mithril !). I am wondering what kind off paint is used.

So thanks to all your advices, I will take pictures off the results once those are painted !