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.
