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About to remove the front and side doors from a Land Raider. Anyone tried doing this before?

I recently received 3 used Land Raiders, each of which has Forgeworld doors. The top is not glued on to any of them, leaving the insides exposed.

For the side doors, there's a piece of plastic with molded details at the back of each door. I think what I need to do is pry the door off from the outside to pull it away.

For the front door, it's mounted in with a pair of pins. I think I need to spilt the tracks off the body enough to get the pins to fall out, then put in the replacement doors.

Would love to hear any tips or things to watch out for.

I recently added FW doors to an assembled LR. All I did was pry one side off to add them. I did mess up the mechanism that makes the door in the front open so I glued them down. No biggie, I didn't want them to open anyways. That would be my only suggestion, if you want to save that part be extra careful when pulling it apart.

What is the objective?

Are you pulling the doors off for a reason?

If you aren't fussed on keeping the FW resin doors, I'd suggest submerging everything in hot water so that the resin becomes soft, then pushing and flexing the door as much as possible to weaken the glue.

The goal is to replace the FW doors with plain ones. They have the wrong chapter markings and would look out of place.

Thanks for the suggestions. I did think about softening the Resin to pry them off the side. The ones on the front are pinned, tho, so I might need to pry off one side as suggested in the previous comment.

For the record, I put one of the Land Raiders in the freezer at 0 degrees Fahrenheit. I checked on it a while ago, the seams are starting to break on the side opposite the front door. Will let everyone know how it goes.