| Howdy Jeff,
Where I work, we still use a chemical called "methylethylketone" (M.E.K. for short) it does amazing things to all sorts of plastic. Its primary use us as a degreaser/solvent and it is some bad stuff. At work we have dissolved styrofoam cups in it, leaving nothing behind, we use small paint brushes for glue, the company bought plastic stemmed brushes.....ate them too along with the synthetic "hairs" or bristles, it has eaten cheap gloves that were thought were rubber but turned out to be synthetic.
Other than for degreasing parts, we have only found one other really good use for it, it will cure poison ivy, poison oak....etc with one application.
But, back to your model. My suggestion is for you to use the model in a diaroma, we have all seen diaromas with "crashed, shot down" aircraft in them, here is a prime canidate for that role if you arent going to try to repair it.
Go ahead and paint her up, maybe take a large needle in a pair of pliers, heat it and create bullet holes in the fuselage, take a heated butter knife and create a "shell hole from an imaginary flak hit, ad the smut from a lit candle and you have flame damage with burnt areas.
just some ideas, have a good day,
Greg |