As the body panels came off

I began to see what needed attention and how much. 90% of the dents and dings were about the size of a quarter. the only severe one was on the drivers side quarter panel(no pre repair picture is availiable sorry). in addition to the major dent there was a fair sized rott hole near the wheel well. When the cash is available Ill replace at least part of the quarter panel . The fenders on the other hand were just mildly dinged and required a few taps with a hammer and a skim of body filler. In the included photo above you can see the small dents as white areas and the high spots as bare metal. the gray colored area in between is realativly even. the way you would go about hammering a dent such as those is by placing the dolley(a concaved or convexed peice of steel made to the shape of the body curve) on a low spot and hammering on a high spot. the dolley recoils and beats the low spot upward(from the back) and the hammer moves the high spot inward. rinse and repeat until they are as close as possiable, idealy 1/16th is the magic number when it comes to body filler, 1/8th will work but any thicker then that and you run into problems later on after you have painted. the ideal is to over fill the dent 1 inch past in ethier direction and cut the excess filler off with a body file or sanding block. usually you would cut in flat with 80 or 120 grit sand paper and apply a high build primer then re-sand with 320 grit paper.