[charonjr]

Steve, thanks. I will have to wait until August to get the degreaser or the denatured alcohol. I did try ammonia. But after a smelly half hour of letting the model sit with its engine pods in the fluid, nothing happened. Had to put the ammonia away. Can't do it outside, as the Tucson heat would evaporate it quickly.

The model is the 18", 1/537 scale AMT/ERTL TOS Enterprise from 1995. I had tried Testors Acryl Lt. Ghost Grey 921577, in the 1/4 ounce bottle. Tried handbrushing it onto a couple of engine pod features, including the gas intake vents behind the domes. I let it dry and did not like the toy look of the paint. Just wrong. I had nothing on hand to remove it, and have only recently tried to find a solution.

I want to try to get the stuff off without having to sand and destroy the details it is on.

 

[pagni]

If nothing else your post is an advertisement for the acrylic paint you used. The ammonia should have just stripped it clean.
There's always pinesol and/or Easy off

 

[Frank2056]

If nothing else your post is an advertisement for the acrylic paint you used. The ammonia should have just stripped it clean.
There's always pinesol and/or Easy off

Be careful with the Pinesol - it can soften styrene.

Testors Acryl will come off with denatured alcohol; if there's paint stuck in a deep detail, hit it with an old toothbrush and some denatured alcohol and it should come off.

 

[charonjr]

Thanks guys, I will keep you up to date with these different methods. I regret now having assembled the model subassemblies. Having the pylons and pods separate would make it far easier to lay in fluid to try these methods.