Removing "varnish goop"

[archreptile]

Right, so I spent ages working on a marble column.
I decided it needed gloss varnish. I've been using testors dullcote spray and windsor and newton matt varnish without incident so got a batch of windsor newton gloss varnish and put it on.
Seemed to work OK although never really tested it to see if it had hardened.
Put it in a semi airtight container and continued my work on my diorama.
I suppose its been a bit warm, temp in the room probably getting up to 30deg C.
Opened the container over the weekend to find the gloss varnish had turned liquid - basically reverted back to its liquid state.
I left it out for a few hours but no change.
I've recently been experimenting with a mix of tamiya X22 clear and X20A thinner through the airbrush which seems to give a great gloss varnish effect so I sprayed this over but still nothing. I've now done 3 coats of this and my column is still coated in goo.
Any ideas as to how to get rid of this? I'm really hoping its not a strip needed. I'm thinking of some artists spirits or turpentine but that's going to affect the paint...

 

[Dragonsreach]

Warm soapy water and cotton buds, should be your first cleaning attempt.
Failing that go to W&N's site they have a contact link for enquiries.

 

[archreptile]

Thanks, will give it a try later

 

[archreptile]

Bugger, the goop is unchanged. The problem with windsor and newton is that I have compounded the issue by spraying additional varnishes over their varnish.
I'm going to attack it with spirits and the consequences be damned

 

[archreptile]

As closure to this thread and as a lesson for future, turps did nothing at all to the goop. I then tried isopropyl alcohol. The good news is it removed the goop. The bad new is it removed significant amounts of paint underneath.
Live and learn

 

[airhead]

pretty much anything strong enough to remove varnish will probably take off the paint as well - and may harm resin/plastic minis.