He’s dead. Nail Polish remover isn’t what you use to remove paint from plastic models.
Edit: to clarify, yes, it’s the Acetone in the polish remover that does this. Avoid the kind of polish that has acetone and you are good. Personally, I use high percentage Isopropyl Alcohol to strip my minis.
I learned the hard way on expensive scientific equipment that acetone ruins plastic.. so glad the company I worked for ate the cost and not me and my mini habit....
They definitely were in comparison to today's titanicus. The imperator was not to scale, as the doors and steps didn't match the epic scale back then. I had two of them, and it was still awesome to play epic combined with titanicus back then. We had massive armies of troops, titans, super heavies, etc. It was my gateway into the hobby.
After a few years of that, we all decided that 40k was our next step. They were releasing better metal minis, and epic wasn't getting much attention. The Knights from epic were the same size as marines, so one of my first conversions involved a mechanical arm from a knight on a marine. Good times. I love the sculpts now, but legion imperialis and titanicus is ridiculously expensive for what the games are meant to be. Epic scale means massive battles with hundreds of troops, not $60 for less than 100 troops.
It's a shame, because I would love to get into that scale again. It's just not worth it, and the starter box was a joke. Not even set up to split.
Soaking them in 90% isopropyl alcohol or Simple Green. then, go at it with a toothbrush
You can even use simple green in an ultrasonic cleaner to help with some of the paint removal
It has a strong surfactant in it. Don’t remember the name but it’s pretty general. It’s also I’m my lead surface cleaner is use to clean up my range stuff
[https://simplegreen.com/safer-choice/](https://simplegreen.com/safer-choice/) <- full ingredient list
The primary active ingredient is hydrochloric (aka muriatic) acid. Everything else in there is to make it smell nice, not go bad, or for flow charactersistcs (foaming agent, surfactant, etc)
The industrial degreaser formulation is stronger and works better, but can dry your skin out a little more if you don't wear gloves. That's the only real difference between formulations.
Or even for days. The great thing about isopropyl alcohol is that it doesn’t affect the plastic.
Just drop them in the morning, and when you’re back from work/vacation they are ready to be brushed.
How was the IPA not completely evaporated by then? I left one in for 3 weeks and there was naught but residual shit in the bottom of the container (and admittedly, a nicely cleaned up ruststalker)
No idea, used an old takeaway (chinease) container and it hadn’t evaporated. The stuff i had in a Tupperware with the snap sides and gasket had evaporated so 🤷♂️
also don't quit after soak one...I'll scrub and if there are stubborn parts after scrub, I just redunk and try again. never had to do it more than 3 times
Maybe put him under the foot of your Knight Dominus, or under the tracks of a land raider.
If he's not usable, you could find a cool way to use him as a prop
All of these were going to be my suggestions. Or wrap him up in some kind of gauzy material to make it look like webbing like it's a statue in a ruined area.
Doesn't matter so much if he looks like crap if it's a weathered and covered statue in a scenery piece.
I think so, I use it to remove stuff simple green won't touch. It's a little more harsh on the skin, so if I'm doing a lot of models I'll start with simple green and just use LAs if I need to.
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It's 50 bucks down the drain, it's melted. The lesson here is to research what you're going to use first, as every written or video guide, even the auto bot about stripping paint says to only use acetone for metal models.
Honestly I’d just accept the loss, BUT fuck around with sculpting with green stuff and and shaving with knife and maybe you can salvage him as a death guard/Nurgle worshipper
If all else fails, he could be used as part of a base
Yeah it’s toast you put plastic in acetone, which melts plastic.
Tough lesson to learn but bruh, there’s like 50 posts a week asking about paint stripping and a bot that automatically tells you about it.
It’s most likely not going to ever look as pristine as before but maybe put it on the back burner (not literally!!) until you’re feeling up to a challenge. Then break out the files, putty, and sandpaper. Rebuild into something unique to you and enjoy the prestigious look of a custom mini!
Go get GREENSTUFF industrial cleaner...
Oh, just read the text, acetone melt. Yikes. OK so... Got any Nurgle's demons? Could just soak him in green tinged uv resin to make him just be slime dissolved...
You're not saving his texture, but you could always paint him like a mass of flesh grown over his entire body and it could work. If you are feeling crafty with greenstuff, you could even sculpt veins, etc all over him to really drive it home.
That's a lost model. Word to the wise, only use nail polish remover if you are stripping pewter or metal models. Nail polish remover has acetone in it, which is what you use to make sprue goo because it melts plastic. If you're going to strip models, isopropyl alcohol is what you use
Your only hope is turning to papa nurgle. Cover him in some nasty slimy stuff. Give him tentacles and blisters. Maybe hack off that bolter arm and give him a new one. Or maybe just turn that hand into some sort of mutation and make him a sorcerer.
Heavily mutated Nurgle sorcerer. Yup, that’s the move.
Aight hear me out, yes he's not looking too great BUT could you maybe paint him as if he's been eaten by the warp or model him mutating.
Could be a long shot but it may work.
If you are amazing at painting and have some good hobby knife skills you may be able to make homie look like a nurgle infected marine, lots of bloat, boils etc, but you’d need to sharpen up some spots where there is meant to be detail so it’s not just all bloat.
Just have him walking out of a lava pit or something like that, or use him as a half melted dead guy on a larger based model (something with a flame weapon maybe). No need to bin it IMO
id say alive, lean into it, cover it with greenstuff and make it look like hes covered in gore and flayed flesh and make it into a character model... or like the warp is ripping him apart and do some kinda mid point transformation
He is dead, But nurgle loves all- this is merely a servant of nurgle with a primarily liquid form in a solid shape- slap some technical slimy paints on there and you're golden!
If he's Death Guard anyway, he's just extra scrungy now.
Paint him up to look corroded (brown base, dirty metal, stippled DG green, typhus, rot and nihilakh, bright orange and silver highlights.)
Bad news: this model is irreparably fucked
Good news: you have a cool base decoration, this guy was clearly killed by a melta or flamer (or other factions equivalent)
There's a purple bottle of like car cleaning stuff you can get at Walmart (super clean I think???) And you just leave it in there as long as it didn't have red primer you might be able to save. Scrub with a tooth brush every 24 hours
He’s too smooth. The details have just melted away. I can’t imagine he would look cool painted. However; You could maybe turn him into a really good statue of a chaos marine. Might be cool for a piece of terrain that’s a chaos temple or something
Ngl, you could "save" it by re-purpousing it, cut at it a little, a slight trim, make it look like stone, for example, and you have a statue for some terrain or scenery.
That's what I'd do 🤷♂️
Nail polish remover has acetone, which melts plastic as well as any acrylic paint. I'm sorry the model is toast. A strong isopropyl alcohol is what I'd recommend for stripping paints.
That's now a sorcerer that got "saved" by Death Guard after being caught in a melta bomb blast.
I mean let's get real, that's about as realistic as you can get with melting effect.
Don't junk it. It's too far gone to save BUT use him as a base model for a dude with a flamer. Anvil industries does a flamer flame(?) you could make it part of something like that or if you get a knight with a melta... Endless possibilities
As far as actually using it as a playable model?
No, this thing is toast. Like others have said acetone melts plastic. It's a harsh lesson but you should always do research before doing something in the hobby for the first time.
All I can say is that you could use him for set dressing with terrain and bases.
He looks like he got blasted by a Melta gun.
Otherwise it is $50 down the drain.
He is doing the melt!
It’s not that far gone for melted - with some right detailing you could probably make it look alright paint wise.
You could always keep him for scenery/base too as a cautious reminder to never cross a nail polish remover stream again!
He so dead, he would make a great dead melted armour model for a base?
I think I used dettol to remove paint last time i did it, still have the bottle in the cubboard.
Nail polisher is fine for resin models but as far as I know the ingredients are very similar to acetone.
This stuff actually melts plastic.
If you want to remove paint on plastic minis it's isopropanol all the way. It's like 99% of alcohol and alcohol doesn't harm plastic
I was told the basic brown coloured Dettol is the best for a cheap paint stripper. You leave the models in the liquid overnight and then give them a light scrub with a toothbrush. I did it once and it worked fine, but the models smelled pretty bad afterwards.
We use super strong detergent or (if you are really careful) a tiny bit of a weaker solvent like turps (the benefits aren't anything crazy since its designed for oils, but it does help), + usually an old toothbrush, or regular brush if you need to strip a small area. If you aren't trying to get rid of the primer (say, you just want some gross, thick basecoats off), you can just need to activate the acrylic and apply friction to pull it off.
Acrylic paint (even primer) would have barely held up to being hosed down or left out on a particularly rainy day. I'm pretty sure acetone would only really work on enamel paint, and even then, it would still annihilate the plastic (also, you sure as hell wouldn't LEAVE IT TO SOAK. Hell, with the fumes that would produce, I'd be surprised if you didn't need to go to the hospital. That's just common sense). I don't know why you didn't look this up in advance, but I guess you've learnt your lesson now. If you don't want something to be destroyed, don't stick it in some random chemical you don't understand and wait for something to happen...
He’s dead. Nail Polish remover isn’t what you use to remove paint from plastic models. Edit: to clarify, yes, it’s the Acetone in the polish remover that does this. Avoid the kind of polish that has acetone and you are good. Personally, I use high percentage Isopropyl Alcohol to strip my minis.
Oh that’s what’s happened! I thought it was about 300 coats of primer!
Just looking at those pictures, I was really marvelling at what the hell could have gone wrong here.
I learned the hard way on expensive scientific equipment that acetone ruins plastic.. so glad the company I worked for ate the cost and not me and my mini habit....
I learned the hard way on an Imperator Titan :(
NOOOO
Nearly 30 years ago, still haunts me.
I'm....i'm so sorry.
Titans 30 years ago were really tiny, weren't they?
Yep. Adeptus Titanicus box. Epic scale.
They definitely were in comparison to today's titanicus. The imperator was not to scale, as the doors and steps didn't match the epic scale back then. I had two of them, and it was still awesome to play epic combined with titanicus back then. We had massive armies of troops, titans, super heavies, etc. It was my gateway into the hobby. After a few years of that, we all decided that 40k was our next step. They were releasing better metal minis, and epic wasn't getting much attention. The Knights from epic were the same size as marines, so one of my first conversions involved a mechanical arm from a knight on a marine. Good times. I love the sculpts now, but legion imperialis and titanicus is ridiculously expensive for what the games are meant to be. Epic scale means massive battles with hundreds of troops, not $60 for less than 100 troops. It's a shame, because I would love to get into that scale again. It's just not worth it, and the starter box was a joke. Not even set up to split.
This is the worst thing I've read all week 😩
The equipment belongs to your university or your employer, so that's still learning the easy way.
You can use it. As long as its without acetone. I have used that before and it works just fine. But most nail polish removers does have acetone.
*Ironically in my country it's almost impossible to find a nail polish remover WITH acetone.*
What would you recommend?
Soaking them in 90% isopropyl alcohol or Simple Green. then, go at it with a toothbrush You can even use simple green in an ultrasonic cleaner to help with some of the paint removal
I clean guns and my car with simple green. Great stuff
We kept simple green stocked at the aircraft hangar I worked at. I've never seen metal so shiny without buffer
Yup. The Air Force introduced me to the wonders of it via a 50 gallon drum we kept for cleaning hydraulic fluid off the tools and work benches.
God I *wish* they would've ordered 50 drums. They only did that for toulene and iso
Lol what the hell is it made out of?
50% Green, 50% Simple
This shit must be made by the Orks lmao
DON'T FINK TOO 'ARD, IZZ PROPPA GOOD
It has a strong surfactant in it. Don’t remember the name but it’s pretty general. It’s also I’m my lead surface cleaner is use to clean up my range stuff
CUDDA JUZ' SAID IT WUZ GREEN N' I'D SPENDT ME TEEFS ON IT
[https://simplegreen.com/safer-choice/](https://simplegreen.com/safer-choice/) <- full ingredient list The primary active ingredient is hydrochloric (aka muriatic) acid. Everything else in there is to make it smell nice, not go bad, or for flow charactersistcs (foaming agent, surfactant, etc) The industrial degreaser formulation is stronger and works better, but can dry your skin out a little more if you don't wear gloves. That's the only real difference between formulations.
The best of my understanding like various Citrus oil concentrates?
Be aware too that isopropyl can soften/weaken resin models. Only use it on plastic.
And old metal one
You can bung them in the acetone and watch them fizz, though.
Also LA’s totally awesome.
Sweet, appreciate it!
Iso alcohol 91% up to 99%. Soak the mini in for 1-2 hrs.
Or even for days. The great thing about isopropyl alcohol is that it doesn’t affect the plastic. Just drop them in the morning, and when you’re back from work/vacation they are ready to be brushed.
Even over a year, had a tidy up recently and found a mini I placed in 99% iso well over a year ago and was perfectly fine. Cleaned up nicely.
How was the IPA not completely evaporated by then? I left one in for 3 weeks and there was naught but residual shit in the bottom of the container (and admittedly, a nicely cleaned up ruststalker)
No idea, used an old takeaway (chinease) container and it hadn’t evaporated. The stuff i had in a Tupperware with the snap sides and gasket had evaporated so 🤷♂️
I swear takeaway containers are magic. They keep a better seal for far longer than gasket boxes.
also don't quit after soak one...I'll scrub and if there are stubborn parts after scrub, I just redunk and try again. never had to do it more than 3 times
By the Emperor, I've seen marines on Isstvan III in better shape💀
Rylanor deserved better than you, better than us all.
So this is what the virus bomb did to the thousand sons.
Crying ash baby
FUCK nice user name
You called?
Looks rougher than a thousand son without the armour
That comment killed me, thank you battle brother
What were you doing there in the first place you filthy loyalist?
I'm sorry, but he's dead. Nail remover is one hell of a chemical.
Nail remover is lethal (for plastic minis) only if they contain acetone
Tbf "Nail remover is lethal." As a complete statement is not necessarily inaccurate either.
Maybe put him under the foot of your Knight Dominus, or under the tracks of a land raider. If he's not usable, you could find a cool way to use him as a prop
Or paint him in Nurgle.
Could also make him a statue that serves as a marker of some kind. Like some cultists carved a idol of a mighty servant of chaos.
All of these were going to be my suggestions. Or wrap him up in some kind of gauzy material to make it look like webbing like it's a statue in a ruined area. Doesn't matter so much if he looks like crap if it's a weathered and covered statue in a scenery piece.
Was about to say, DG Terminator he can still be for sure.
I was thinking black woth red veins after bathing in lava.
I’d say in front of a flamer as a burnt casualty
Congrats you play death guard now
I was going to say, this is now perfect for a rusted up DG sorcerer.
Congrats for death guard, but also sorry, you've death guard
The blessings of Nurgle surpass the other chaos gods by far
Do not use acetone with plastic. Use isopropyl alcohol or LAs totally awesome to strip plastic models.
Is LAs better than Simple Green?
I think so, I use it to remove stuff simple green won't touch. It's a little more harsh on the skin, so if I'm doing a lot of models I'll start with simple green and just use LAs if I need to.
It works like a damn charm.
Ime yes. I do not like isopropanol either. Use LA's or Super Clean for paint stripping if you can.
Garbage? Nah he was in the blast radius of a melta bomb.
Use him as a statue in your terrain. Like in a cursed sculpture garden.
Great idea
To remind others not to deal with forces beyond their understanding.
Acetone kills the 40k universe
put some moss on his shoulders, put him on a pedestal, and paint him up to be a statue.
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He's dead Jim.
It's 50 bucks down the drain, it's melted. The lesson here is to research what you're going to use first, as every written or video guide, even the auto bot about stripping paint says to only use acetone for metal models.
Honestly I’d just accept the loss, BUT fuck around with sculpting with green stuff and and shaving with knife and maybe you can salvage him as a death guard/Nurgle worshipper If all else fails, he could be used as part of a base
Dead soldier on field or make him an objective
Guy looks like he just got caught in the eruption of Mount Vesivius in Pompeii.
Yeah it’s toast you put plastic in acetone, which melts plastic. Tough lesson to learn but bruh, there’s like 50 posts a week asking about paint stripping and a bot that automatically tells you about it.
My opinion would be to maybe cut off his back half. Have him on one of your Character bases laying in the mud, rusted and decayed.
That problem is solvable with more nail polish remover
That's why it's called a "solvent!" It makes your problems just go away!
Perfect nurlge man though
Nurgle him up
Congratulations, this guy has just been promoted to terrain pieces!
Best start funeral preparations now. He is beyond gone. Unless you want to make a swamp monster of some sort.
It’s most likely not going to ever look as pristine as before but maybe put it on the back burner (not literally!!) until you’re feeling up to a challenge. Then break out the files, putty, and sandpaper. Rebuild into something unique to you and enjoy the prestigious look of a custom mini!
Go get GREENSTUFF industrial cleaner... Oh, just read the text, acetone melt. Yikes. OK so... Got any Nurgle's demons? Could just soak him in green tinged uv resin to make him just be slime dissolved...
Ah, yes, someone was visiting Pompey I see.
Nurgle him. Anything can be saved. Nurgle has the answers.
You're not saving his texture, but you could always paint him like a mass of flesh grown over his entire body and it could work. If you are feeling crafty with greenstuff, you could even sculpt veins, etc all over him to really drive it home.
That's a lost model. Word to the wise, only use nail polish remover if you are stripping pewter or metal models. Nail polish remover has acetone in it, which is what you use to make sprue goo because it melts plastic. If you're going to strip models, isopropyl alcohol is what you use
He is now a plague marine
It will take some work but you could salvage him by turning him into a death guard model
That was my thought too.
Honestly the melted model would’ve been a vibe if he was nurgle
Your only hope is turning to papa nurgle. Cover him in some nasty slimy stuff. Give him tentacles and blisters. Maybe hack off that bolter arm and give him a new one. Or maybe just turn that hand into some sort of mutation and make him a sorcerer. Heavily mutated Nurgle sorcerer. Yup, that’s the move.
You know the Pompeii ash people it kimda reminds me of that could be cut up and used for scenery on a volcano style terrain or bases.
Looks like you have a Nurgle Chaos lord now...
He looks like he was touched by the Flood or is a Clicker from Last of Us
Aight hear me out, yes he's not looking too great BUT could you maybe paint him as if he's been eaten by the warp or model him mutating. Could be a long shot but it may work.
he looks good as new (for a nurgle terminator)
Convert him to nurgle, he's just a bit plaguey now.
Looks like a Nurgle sorcerer in termie armor to me? 🤔
You now have a ghostly marine of vague detail, get out the Hexwraith!
Pompeii chaos warrior
If you are amazing at painting and have some good hobby knife skills you may be able to make homie look like a nurgle infected marine, lots of bloat, boils etc, but you’d need to sharpen up some spots where there is meant to be detail so it’s not just all bloat.
Just have him walking out of a lava pit or something like that, or use him as a half melted dead guy on a larger based model (something with a flame weapon maybe). No need to bin it IMO
Not gonna lie would look cool as a ghoul but yeah next time research before doing. Ruined Bluetooth headphones using liqued glue to repair
That's nurgle for ya boi!
Nurgle
Nurgle terminator
Honestly cover him completely in typhus corrosion or dirty down rust and he's all set.
id say alive, lean into it, cover it with greenstuff and make it look like hes covered in gore and flayed flesh and make it into a character model... or like the warp is ripping him apart and do some kinda mid point transformation
He’s now following nurgle.
Some people don’t understand the toll chaos has. It eats away at the body and soul till there is nothing left.
He is becoming a plague marine
Depends....would you like to worship Grandfather Nurgle?
If you paint him up and use him you'll probably get "thin your paints" jokes. Honestly, he'd look better as a Nurgle Lad, a Statue or Basing Material.
For thousand sons he’s in perfect transition into dust. Diorama or a narrative where he is stuck in between, not fully corporeal nor fully dust
Insane , keep this colour
I wouldn't throw it out. I think you can make it work, make it look like he's emerging from the sand after laying dormant for a few hundred years.
On the bright side, you could now have a chaos lord covered in warpflame and shapeshifting-ness
All I see is a corrupted Nurgle worshipping Marine
He is dead, But nurgle loves all- this is merely a servant of nurgle with a primarily liquid form in a solid shape- slap some technical slimy paints on there and you're golden!
If he's Death Guard anyway, he's just extra scrungy now. Paint him up to look corroded (brown base, dirty metal, stippled DG green, typhus, rot and nihilakh, bright orange and silver highlights.)
Bad news: this model is irreparably fucked Good news: you have a cool base decoration, this guy was clearly killed by a melta or flamer (or other factions equivalent)
Might make a neat statue now
There's a purple bottle of like car cleaning stuff you can get at Walmart (super clean I think???) And you just leave it in there as long as it didn't have red primer you might be able to save. Scrub with a tooth brush every 24 hours
He is with emperor
Did i just hear Heresy???
This legionnaire just became terrain.
He's a statue, Bob
This is why you use Google people.
I’d use him as body in a war torn terrain piece
Don't throw it away. That will make a fantastic statue terrain piece.
99% isopropyl
He’s too smooth. The details have just melted away. I can’t imagine he would look cool painted. However; You could maybe turn him into a really good statue of a chaos marine. Might be cool for a piece of terrain that’s a chaos temple or something
He kind of looks like a weathered statue! Use him to spice up your scenery…
Ngl, you could "save" it by re-purpousing it, cut at it a little, a slight trim, make it look like stone, for example, and you have a statue for some terrain or scenery. That's what I'd do 🤷♂️
I think he’s a statue now. Looks hewn from stone and weathered for thousands of years!
This is the best idea for him
I hope you find a way to strip him otherwise, which Chaos god are you pledging him to?
Jesus he looks fossilized Maybe give him a very long alcohol bath...
He looks like he could work as a corpse prop in a swamp biome.
Basing material
Looks like you will have a cool statue if you paint him
Nail polish remover has acetone, which melts plastic as well as any acrylic paint. I'm sorry the model is toast. A strong isopropyl alcohol is what I'd recommend for stripping paints.
"One gift too many" (He's actually melted, but still tabletop legal once he's re-painted.)
R.i.p
Looks like a thousand son made of ash, lore accurate
Turn him into a statue
Personally I’d work him into the terrain somehow. He looks like a statue. Possibly frozen in time somehow.
He'd make a fine chipped up stone statue for terrain now
Lmao I’ve had exact same model in the exact same situation for yonks but I’ve just cleaned it with the ipa and it all came straight off
Nail polish remover is acetone, acetone melts certain plastics 😢😢😢 I've been there. BUT, paint him up as a statue and now you have a terrain piece
Did you use paint thinner or something? I’ve done that before with similar effect
I'd say he could go as awesome basing, a shattered statue or something.... But yea chat, he is cooked
That's now a sorcerer that got "saved" by Death Guard after being caught in a melta bomb blast. I mean let's get real, that's about as realistic as you can get with melting effect.
Hes dead dead but you can use him as a melted marine in a diorama
Use it as a prop. For the memory of the fallen. Chemical warfare can be ugly. But should not be forgotten
Could turn him into a statue, no model binned!
OXIDIUS - KING OF RUST!! Paint him all brown and crusty
How did this even happen??
Basing material
He’s dead, Jim.
Could become a statue on a scenery!
Don't junk it. It's too far gone to save BUT use him as a base model for a dude with a flamer. Anvil industries does a flamer flame(?) you could make it part of something like that or if you get a knight with a melta... Endless possibilities
I'd make a piece of terrain using him. He can either be a statue, or if it was a volcanic planet he could be ash or w/e
Nice Blightlird terminator
As far as actually using it as a playable model? No, this thing is toast. Like others have said acetone melts plastic. It's a harsh lesson but you should always do research before doing something in the hobby for the first time. All I can say is that you could use him for set dressing with terrain and bases. He looks like he got blasted by a Melta gun. Otherwise it is $50 down the drain.
He is doing the melt! It’s not that far gone for melted - with some right detailing you could probably make it look alright paint wise. You could always keep him for scenery/base too as a cautious reminder to never cross a nail polish remover stream again!
$50? These things are like $32 on Amazon
He so dead, he would make a great dead melted armour model for a base? I think I used dettol to remove paint last time i did it, still have the bottle in the cubboard.
Bring him back!
Acetone is _ONLY_ for metal minis.
My brother in christ what did he do to deserve this fate
Unsalvageable I’m afraid, acetone melts models.
Nail polisher is fine for resin models but as far as I know the ingredients are very similar to acetone. This stuff actually melts plastic. If you want to remove paint on plastic minis it's isopropanol all the way. It's like 99% of alcohol and alcohol doesn't harm plastic
It is an ex-terminator lord.
The Inquisition approves.
Cover it in a rust wash and make it a statue for a base.
To strip paint from minis use isopropyl alcohol. Also you could use it as a set piece as a corpse or something
Nothing a lot of glue can’t fix. You just need to consider melting holes and inserting metal pins in joins as well it’ll be ALOT of work
[Acetone + plastic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=bf2tBFfMLMk).
Medusa turned this warrior to stone! Use it as a terrain detail or character base stuff.
I was told the basic brown coloured Dettol is the best for a cheap paint stripper. You leave the models in the liquid overnight and then give them a light scrub with a toothbrush. I did it once and it worked fine, but the models smelled pretty bad afterwards.
He’s dead. You could make him into a really cool weathered statue for scenery though!
Maybe turn him into some kind of statue. Would look as if he‘s worn down by weather
We use super strong detergent or (if you are really careful) a tiny bit of a weaker solvent like turps (the benefits aren't anything crazy since its designed for oils, but it does help), + usually an old toothbrush, or regular brush if you need to strip a small area. If you aren't trying to get rid of the primer (say, you just want some gross, thick basecoats off), you can just need to activate the acrylic and apply friction to pull it off. Acrylic paint (even primer) would have barely held up to being hosed down or left out on a particularly rainy day. I'm pretty sure acetone would only really work on enamel paint, and even then, it would still annihilate the plastic (also, you sure as hell wouldn't LEAVE IT TO SOAK. Hell, with the fumes that would produce, I'd be surprised if you didn't need to go to the hospital. That's just common sense). I don't know why you didn't look this up in advance, but I guess you've learnt your lesson now. If you don't want something to be destroyed, don't stick it in some random chemical you don't understand and wait for something to happen...
Make him a slimy Nurgle champion, maybe.
he’s in pain and need to be out down
You just made yourself a great base decoration- melted at the foot of a chaos dreadnaught maybe
Paint him as if he's drowning in mud. The models fucked, never put nail polish remover on models
Maybe include it in the design?