This is common for me aswell to end up with stuck models. My only way has been to delete everything in the model manually. Machines etc. Not sure exactly how.
I wrote a post about this the other day actually and it seems you experience the same situation.
@timClicks I think this is worth noticing since people end up with stuck models and the juju messages will not help us to resolve it. I think the - - force flag needs to get more muscles or assist resolving stuck models.