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Bought a promo with a heavy coat of what appeared to be house paint once I got it in my hands, so I apprehensively consigned it to the purple pond for a couple of days... man, what a mess. The paint sloughed off pretty easily for the most part, but it took about four hours of picking, scraping, and brush-scrubbing to get the rest off and clean out the gaps... and it seemed like the purple stuff brought up a rough texture in a few areas, necessitating some judicious sanding and adzing to smooth it out... then, I decided to touch up the slight areas of flash around the wheelwells and the joints atop the doors, when I got chips coming off the plastic instead of curls... believe me, fifty-six year old styrene is BRITTLE... cleaning mold lines and flash became something along the lines of open-heart surgery for a while! Thankfully, I got her cleaned up and today I shot a primer coat. Too bad JoHan used the old full-frame chassis plate instead of the unibody plate it should have.... I'd love to have something slightly better underneath it, but it's not going to bother me too much since the hood is molded shut.