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Revell 35th Anniversary Camaro restoration


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Hi German I would try to remove the chassis from the body then remove the glass then I would strip the body with break fluid or an mild oven cleaner . It will save you a lot of time and it will save the detail thats on the body .Do you know what paint you used ?If its enamel it should come off easy if tis acryilc thats a bit harder to remove but it is possible

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Carefully chip the crazy glue away as it usually doesn't melt into the plastic. Any that you can't remove with a hobby knife, you should easily be able to remove with sand paper. also, since crazy glue doesn't bond with the plastic, it will more easily come apart than if you were to have used plastic cement.

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Use purple power, or denatured alcohol, or 91% isopropyl alcohol to strip the old brush paint off. It should fall off in a couple of hours, overnight at the most.

If you have to dismantle another model assembled with super glue, use the "water" method, dip the car in water and place in a freezer. The expansion of the freezing water will generally separate most of the super glued pieces and loosen the others so they can easily be separated with a sharply #11 blade and some liquid cement, cut lightly along the seams and flow some liquid cement along them and gently use one or more blades to pry the pieces apart.

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Just got hold of some Rust-oleum gloss white. But I have to ask: is priming the body really necessary?

If you want a smooth finish, you should use a styrene friendly primer, such as Plasticote Sandable Primer. I had to strip the finish from a '67 Camaro I am working on, and I just went through the same thing with a couple of glue-bombs of my own. Invest in some of those 8-way fingernail files from the dollar store. You will be surprised at what can come out of a previously bad build.

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