"how to remove white glue" Topic

Found a wonderful lighthouse for 28mm Innsmouth transients to call home. But being originally designed for tourists, it's been covered with sand, seashells, and a net -- not to scale, and it's gotta go. Appears the lighthouse is painted wood, appears the glue is Elmer's.

Is there a clean way to remove it? Tempted to just knock the grit off, and sand it, but I'm hoping there's something that could work as a solvent?

Water is the appropriate solvent to loosen white glue to the point you can peel it off, but that could likely be antithetical to the wood. I'd worry about warping the model and dissolving any glue joints, assuming the model maker used white glue for those also. Unless someone else has a better answer, your proposed sanding may do the least harm.

Rick

Water -- you can soak it for 24 hours or I guess you could successively brush it on -- probably take forever but it would eventually get the stuff off.

Use hot water and soak for 5 minutes – peel off what has softened & repeat until it is all gone. If it falls apart then glue it back together again – if it went together with PVA it can't be that complicated.