Put it back into its box “to finish later” then? 
BTW, I just noticed a very minor mistake on your model: the lifting eyes on the hull rear should be vertical, not angled slightly outboard as you have them. This is something that a lot of people building Shermans do, because it’s very easy to (assume you have to) glue the eyes perpendicular to the plate they’re on. This looks like a good opportunity to correct that, too 
Thanks for noticing. I’ll correct that and will go to priming.
What a bummer you had to strip the paint on the hull. but it looks like you got it completely clean.
The ultrasonic device did wonders
You do have me wondering how big a painting mistake you made that you couldn’t just paint over it?
Well, I touched the side wall with some gloves with paint on its fingers and stripped a big hole. The model was primed with Vallejo white primer and was not able to remove the nasty hole in the paint job.
@ignoramusRex
That’s impressive, wouldn’t have guessed that this kit had its paint stripped. It’s looking really nice the tracks really pop.
Ah, yes, I can see why you’d want to strip it, then I asked mainly because I’ve heard people wanting to strip models when they made a mistake in the colours or weathering or something, which would have been easier to fix by just painting over it.
I’d say you’ve improved on what you had before
Well, thanks for the help.
@ignoramusRex
That looks really nice! It’s crazy to think you took almost the whole tank down to the bare plastic. I’m considering buying one of those machines now after reading this thread. I have a handful of kits I wouldn’t mind doing a do-over on the paint with. How did you manage the heat so that the plastic wouldn’t get all deformed?
BTW, the shipping stencils are a really nice touch. Where did you get those from?
I bought a simple machine on which you cannot set the temperature (even buying that I had a bad surprise, the first seller sent a pressure cleaner instead of the picture ultrasound one). The thicker plastic parts were fine in the warm IPA mixture. Smaller resin parts like resin towing eyelets could become gooey.
The stencils are from a Russian company called Colibri decals ( printed by Begemot). They produce many Soviet - Russian subjects, but because of the war I think they are not so widely distributed. Last two times I bought them from a Latvian and a Serbian vendor on eBay.
Thanks for the appreciation.
