Originally Posted by Fantom

But to put it back together, I would hazard a guess that you will need to once again boil it. So if you paint the figure while its apart, the boiling process, like RR says, will boil off the paint.

So I think the best thing to do is boil the figure, take it apart, gather the pieces you want to put back together, then boil them and assemble the figure. At this point you can paint it.

RR may want to confirm this as the correct process.