and the laminate formed by the paint and stripping composition a pigmentation additive was included to permit the user to monitor the thickness of stripping composition applied to the substrate in example e the amount of plasticizer was increased and the amount of solvent reduced the composition of example e reduces the cost of the formula but still retains the advantage of low toxicity the resulting composition has a high viscosity being essentially paste like and allows the removal of the paint by a slightly different mechanism in this case the paint is slowly dissolved requiring from about 24 to about 48 hours and is absorbed by the polymer to form a gum which then can be rolled up into a soft mass and removed from the substrate example f is in general similar to example c excepting that the dibasic ester mixture is used as the plasticizer instead of diethyl phthalate again because of the use of n methyl pyrrolidone the stripping composition exhibited slow drying characteristics which were overcome by the separate use of 1 a hot air gun and 2 steam heat in example g the amount of plasticizer and polyvinyl formal resin were greatly increased the result was that the very high percentage of non drying plasticizer prevented the polyvinyl formal resin from drying to a tough strippable film after application of the paste like stripping composition to the substrate a rubbery gum was formed steam heat was applied in an attempt to dry the rubbery gum in an attempt to.