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Using army painter, but curious if you over prime a bit and fill in some details if it can be fixed?

You can go back and either try scraping them out with a knife or file, or strip the model with Simple Green or what have you and scrub the paint off before starting over. Alternately, if it isn't too bad, you can just kind of fudge the details a little bit. I know a model or two I've painted has had a slightly filled in chest eagle or what have you, and I just had to paint the detail myself instead of relying on what was sculpted.

Overspray is easy to accidentally apply using Army Painter.

What I do is immediately toss the piece in a small tub of rubbing alcohol. Even cheap 70% stuff works. After 10-20 minutes you can scrub it with a toothbrush and almost all of the primer will come off and you can simply dry it off and re-prime.

Be careful with alcohol it can melt plastic mini. Simply Green works great with a 1:1 ratio.

Dawn Power Dissolver.

A prior thread clued me in to this product. It is amazing stuff. Army painter primer, from my own encounter, is really resilient stuff. A week in simple green didn't event dent the primer. 48 hours in the Dawn Power Dissolver and the mini was almost pristine!

Isopropyl shouldn't melt GW plastic or most plastics, but it definitely can eat away or soften certain resins and specific plastics.

Remember, the stuff comes in plastic bottles so saying it will melt solid chunks of even harder and tougher plastic is kind of strange.

Careful using isopropyl. I used it on some space marines before just with a tooth brush and damaged some details. I was using 99% tho. I'd just strip it.

 Tyberos the Red Wake wrote:
Isopropyl shouldn't melt GW plastic or most plastics, but it definitely can eat away or soften certain resins and specific plastics.

Remember, the stuff comes in plastic bottles so saying it will melt solid chunks of even harder and tougher plastic is kind of strange.

Shouldn't but, the plastic bottles it ships in is different from the one the miniatures are made of. However there are better more safer products to use besides Isopropyl.

Here is a better article about stripping paint off your minis.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Dakka_Modeling_FAQ:_How_to_Strip...

I've used 70% isopropyl alcohol on GW minis and leave them for months inside the tub with no ill effects on them whatsoever. No melting.

It does soften some resin parts and makes them bloated, though.

 Tyberos the Red Wake wrote:
Isopropyl shouldn't melt GW plastic or most plastics, but it definitely can eat away or soften certain resins and specific plastics.

Remember, the stuff comes in plastic bottles so saying it will melt solid chunks of even harder and tougher plastic is kind of strange.

I have a stack of plastic bottles sitting next to me full of various chemicals that will melt a plastic model depending how long you leave them in it.

Not all plastics are created equal.