ORIGINAL: andrew b
Has anyone ever found a safe-ish method of removing old dried on diesel gunk from fabric covered models?
I have tried gasoline, acetone, windex, cillit-bang, flash and a whole host of cleaners, nothing seems to remove the brown sticky residue.
Iso Propyl Alcohol, petrol and raw Nitro Methane seem to work best but can damage the paint.
However the most effective method I've found is to cut the paint back to raw solid balsa again with wet and dry, redo the fabric, undercoat and repaint.
Often it's just easier to build a new model.
