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So I inherited a really badly put together monolith I was going to use it but don’t know if I should bother. The gaps are so big it’s ridiculous. What could I do to salvage it?

break it down more and make it like a destroyed or damaged terrain bit?

Could you chop away or melt some of the plastic around those gaps then slip something in behind it so that it looks like battle damage, try making it look like there’s an outer layer of marble or other stone sheathing the monolith?

You could fill the gaps with greenstuff and push parts of it here and there. Don't file it down. Then, when painting, paint these parts metal/silver (and the rest of the monolith in a different colour, i.e. black), as if the living metal is rearranging or reparing itself. Only a suggestion, don't know if it might look ridiculous or not.

Try to disassemble it, use a scalpel to cut along where its glued together, and put it together properly.

What kind of glue was used? If it's plastic cement it will be easy to cut and with the gaps being so large,it's easy to get a knife in and just cut through the glue, leaving the surrounding plastic intact.

The Monolith is luckily not a complex model and all you need are straight cuts. Start by removing the base plate. Once that is gone you can reach inside it and draw your knife along the glue lines in the four corners. You may have to pay attention to the corner tops and carefully cut them from the outside. Also, depending on whether the ball joints of the guns are glued on you may have to be extra careful cutting those free.

But for an assembled model this one looks like it could be disassembled again without doing noticeable damage to it. Then when you have the parts, cut or file away glue residue and reassemble.

Personally trying to sell the cracks as battle damage would be my last option.

What I'd do, personally, is slip a thin sawblade in the seams and cut through until I was left with loose panels, then reassemble with care. It's a very labor-intensive process and very fiddly, but just the kind of task I find very rewarding, and one which I have successfully executed with other models.

The best tool for the job is a sawblade in a X-acto hobby knife style handle, or a miniature keyhole saw.

Shove some green stuff in, prime it, paint the outside the way you want and then do the gaps green or w/e color you want to have the gem be and do an OSL style effect like its growing; it’ll end up looking pretty sharp, I think. And it’ll be the most time efficient/least potentially destructive.

As sloppy as that is put together, just apply violence.
If you know how the parts joined together and you have a flat metal piece to pry with, you can disassemble almost everything. That is assuming plastic cement.

If it was superglued or PVA glued, just stick it in alcohol and it will fall apart.

It is not superglue so it must be plastic glue. It looks like it is in small spots get a good sharp exacto type blade and score most of the glue and then bend down it might come undone. It definitely is repairable just needs some TLC.

With how badly its glued together you probably could just drop it and it will break apart.

 Stephanius wrote:
As sloppy as that is put together, just apply violence.
If you know how the parts joined together and you have a flat metal piece to pry with, you can disassemble almost everything. That is assuming plastic cement.

Don't recommend this. Applying violence will bend panels, and getting them back into alignment will be a pain (and that kit is enough of a pain). Careful cuts of that... mess will take it apart just fine.

When I strip plastic minis in alcohol, sometimes the poly cement is weakened and just falls apart