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Dropzone Commander - Painting Shaltari

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  It all started with this beautiful beast. Such an awesome model and paint job. I was in love and I knew I had to collect Shaltari immediately. After much searching I managed to buy a massive second hand lot of Shaltari for a decent price It was of course WAY too much for me to keep so I sold 2/3 to a fellow dropzoner and kept everything below the wooden stick. Off goes the Shaltari in the post I started to go through what I had and a lot of it was bent, broken or just built in really bad poses. The worst offender was the thick paint on some models, which was of course in a completely different colour to what I want. So it was time to strip the paint, and also hopefully loosen the superglue too so I could reposition. I had a google and a lot of the recommendations I found were for chemicals not easily obtainable here in the UK, however I saw one classic chemical the was frequently popping up...  DETTOL I promptly bought a bottle and then threw in a sacrificial yari tank. I left it in