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Hey guys

I have a Rhino I started painting a while back. After a wrong stroke, I had a small line along the hatch I needed to cover up. I did a really clumsy job of it, and it now has what looks like a scar of paint on the hatch. Is there any way to strip the paint of that area only? I know how to clean all of it off, but I'd prefer to not have to start over.

Just try and color match the best you can. You can try to scrape it off with a knife but that rarely works well.

Or, use the knife and gouge out the plastic - battle damage.

Use a thinner, it will also remove the primer, you can just prime it again with white or black paint depending on your original primer colour and paint over it.

essia wrote:Use a thinner, it will also remove the primer, you can just prime it again with white or black paint depending on your original primer colour and paint over it.

Yeah, this sounds like something i'll try. The issue is that it looks like a crack because of the caked paint. But I'll give it a go.

Thinner will only work well if the paint or primer are oil enamel based. Nothing wrong with trying, but if you used acrylic paints (GW paints are acrylic) then it probably won't work.

Good Luck!

use a fine grain sandpaper to rub away the paint, then mask off the area, prime, and paint

That's probably the best solution, though I would advise masking off the area before sanding so you don't mar the surrounding paint.