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Old 05-21-2012, 10:06 PM
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You can try flaking the rest of it off but I'm sure that there will be a lot of little places where the paint adhered perfectly and won't want to come off. That leaves good old brake fluid and some elbow grease and a bunch of time. Personally, I would go back to the hobby store and show the guy that said the paint would work and ask him to give you a new body. My LHS would do that. It might not get you anywhere but you can try. In that case, it may save you some headache to just get another body. Scuff the new one up with either scotch brite pads or red 3m automotive scuff pads. I use both and my paint will rub off from chassis contact or tire rub after a long while but it NEVER flakes off. That goes for both water based and lacquer. Good luck in this one. I didn't scuff my first body years ago and had the same issue. I didn't know, at the time how important scuffing was for adhesion.
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