Sounds like the prop is apart of the figure. Thats all right though. You can get it anyway. Export the figure as an obj. In the export option dont check weld anything. Also a good Ideal to preserve object names as it'll help you find what your looking for. Now reimport the obj. Select the figure and then use the grouping tool to spawn prop. This will break the whole thing in to it's component objects. Then just delete the parts you don't want. If the prop your after is broken into multiple parts just re-export. Again don't weld anything. This will leave you with a prop that has sub groups of objects that can be selected and textured differently. Hope this helps

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