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- smiglo
eeek, such a mess. Don't want to sound harsh but you should have at least opened them if you were gonna try to brush-paint them. If you really want to fix them you will have to. Look, get a 1/4 metal thread for your drill and simply put the car belly up in a rag and start drilling exactly over the rivet, eventually the car will pop. Then give ONLY THE METAL PARTS some paint remover or throw them in thinner for a few days to remove both the brushed paint and the original paint. You may have to use a thooth brush to remove the paint that refuses to go. After you taake them out, wash them very VERY well with soap water to remove any trace of thinner or grease.
For the plastic parts that got stained by paint, you will need to clean them with alcohol or, at most, nail color remover, that green thing. Get a dab of cotton and remove all the paint you can. For the glass of the car, do not use the green thing, use only alcohol. When you have all the paint out, you'll notice your glass is dull now. A bit of car polish could take care of that. If not, you may have to sand it in order to make it bright and shiny again.
With the car in pieces it is way easier to paint them, even if you are gonna try the brush again, though you'd be better off with a cheap spray can, you'll have better results even if you don't primer the cars. The problem with trying to mask the cars with normal masking tape is that the paint comes in no matter what you do, you'd need Tamiya or some pro-grade masking tape to avoid the stains, but it's pretty expensive.
I'd give them another go and try to fix them up, both cars deserve it, they are both really nice castings and pretty old and somewhat rare.
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thank you so much for great advice!
i will try to fix it next week hopefully with better results
one day one shop
some day maybe I'll chime in.
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