Thanks for your suggestions, now i have a new problem, i’m currently building a B-25 Mitchel, as you can imagination there’s a lot of canopy work, i just unmasked them only to discover paint bleed through, do you know of any special tools to use to remove the bleed spots?
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I’ve just used a toothpick to try and clean up.
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Thanks, I’ll give it a go.
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If you used acrylic paints, a toothpick is your best bet. Solvent based paints tend to bite in and react with the plastic. Not too many, if any solutions at all for fixing that.
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In the future shoot a layer of some kind of clear first then your base color. If you do this the only bleed through you should get is clear.
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Thanks for the tip, toothpick did work however it left the canopies a bit battered, smudge and smeared, any thoughts on cleaning that up, glass cleaner?,
I’ve found touching up with a little acrylic clear like future floor wax can help a bit.
I have small cotton swabs, pointed , hard … tamiya sells them. I find they clean up the messy edges quite well , and a I have a lot of messy edges 
They also seem to leave the glass clean
I usually use a toothpick and with an x-acto blade cut it to a blunt wedge and work at the paint to remove it.
Patience is a virtue and pays of well.
As stated above, toothpick and scrape the paint. I’ve tried with “some” key word is “some” success using Isopropyl Alcohol and using a superfine micro paint brush to rub the paint off.