How to paint this?

[Monkeybusiness]

The client has just dropped my machines back to my yard from a job down in Reading and my 6 tonner has a nasty chunk out of the counterweight paint (along with a few other chips). I don’t recall doing it but there was a lot of rebar on the job so it’s not impossible that something got dragged over the tracks when I was using it…
Anyway - I have never really had any luck successfully painting this sort of damage in a tidy fashion.
The paint buildup is incredibly thick - how should this be tackled to do a tidy job? I want every tip and trick the communal hive-mind has please!!!

 

[Mogman]

The client has just dropped my machines back to my yard from a job down in Reading and my 6 tonner has a nasty chunk out of the counterweight paint (along with a few other chips). I don’t recall doing it but there was a lot of rebar on the job so it’s not impossible that something got dragged over the tracks when I was using it…
Anyway - I have never really had any luck successfully painting this sort of damage in a tidy fashion.
The paint buildup is incredibly thick - how should this be tackled to do a tidy job? I want every tip and trick the communal hive-mind has please!!! View attachment 80805

Yard brush should sort it

 

[craig]

 

[craig]

Maybe some knifing stopper to fill the damage, then flatten, prime and paint.

 

[Bri963]

Doubt filler would stay in long. I’d flap wheel the edges down, primer undercoat and two or three top coats. Won’t be perfect close up but your eyes won’t be drawn to it.

 

[CPS]

Sand it down and see what it looks like, fill if necessary