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So, like many, I've recently been bit by the BattleTech bug. Because of this, and the fact that I enjoy having disposable income, I've been poking around eBay to see what old minis are available. I've noticed two big things.
One, there's a surprising amount of old BT minis for very cheap on eBay. Including Unseen for... more than CGL charges for their minis, by a hair, but nowhere near as much as I was expecting Unseen to cost.
Two, most of them are pre-painted, and, uh... to be as polite as I can, Carolus Linnaeus would classify the paint work on most of these minis as "shitty." Some of them are acceptable-ish, but then you have this fucking thing and stuff on a similar level of quality.
I am thus at an impasse, because I wanna grab some cool stuff, but holy smokes are these minis gonna need some TLC.
Do the generally-accepted techniques for rescuing minis that you'd use for, say, Warhammer work for the old Ral Partha BT minis? If so, will the age of the plastic matter at all, or am I pretty much good to isopropyl/Simple Green a Shadow Hawk that's older than I am for repainting without risking it dissolving into grey sludge?