Lovely "rescue"!
I agree that a lot of the bendy Clix models are (were?) great sculpts that are frequently let down by the poor material. For example, I know James Van Schaik sculpts a lot of figures for WizKids that end up in this plastic, and seeing his originals always makes me lament what gets lost in the process... However, he and others
do nonetheless try to plan/allow for this in their work, and I suspect that it's these models that look best when re-painted.