So I've spent two days rubbing down, filling, stoppering, puttying and yet more rubbing. Its getting there now, I guess I'm about half done. The car has one repaint on the factory paint and I'm rubbing most of that right out as it has some bad "orange peel" effect in the finish.
The photo above should show the orange peel in all its gory glory. Getting back down to perfectly smooth is the big deal here so that when the new paint goes on it will look sharp and shiny. The new colour is going to be a slightly lighter shade of blue in a slightly pearlescent finish. This will be topped off with a clear lacquer rather than the paint on there now which is a single stage paint.
