First off guys: I'm in China, so please don't recommend I go down to my local hobby shop for stuff. I have hardware stores and grocery stores though.

SO! I have my models back from the states, and I need to strip the paint and primer from them, since I did a terrible job on many of them and want to change my paint scheme on others. So, I've looked around and read that brake fluid and pinesol are good at removing paint. I can get brake fluid here, but I'm not sure about pinesol. Does anyone else have any recommendations? Have you used these before? How long should they soak? All my models are metal.

ALSO, since brake fluid will eat through the plastic bases my metal models are on, does anyone have any recommendations for how to easily break down the glue?

Basically, I need to get the models off their bases, then strip the paint off them and reprime+paint them. Thanks for any help you guys can give me!