Well I decided to just go ahead and go down that rabbit hole of painting. The nose piece was originally red and it’s been a pain to remove all paint because it was just chipping off.Left front fender has holes under side trim so I filled those with soldering method because I can’t weld worth a crap.
The body man who painted my Dodge, used a 60 grit ( or maybe it was a 40 grit) on his " bondo buster" and made taking off the old paint look pretty easy...