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I was installing a bracket on the front end body bracket and slipped with my drill and put a small 3/16th clean whole right between my headlights on the front body.Is there a easy way to repair this? I do have a bottle of touch paint #26 Metallic Blue.
I would clean any loose paint flakes. skim on tight some evercoat poly glaze/metal glaze to fill. maybe dip it a lil with my finger or let dry to shrink a bit for paint applicatin. use a micro brush to dot on a 2k primer, another microbrush to dab on paint a few times. wetsand 2ooo polish.
I don't think there is an easy way to make this invisible.
You might first want to consider chamfering the edges to smooth the transition. You will want any filler to be slightly below the surface of the paint and likely it will shrink down a bit anyway. Hobby shops will have small fine brushes to build up the paint layer , but you might want to consider an airbrush for the final coats to avoid any brush strokes. Spray lightly through an aperture off the surface a bit to limit overspray and practice on something else. Don't experiment on the job itself and don't rush it. If you do any sanding make up some very small sanding blocks not much bigger that the fix so you don't spread the fix very far.
I am sure you are kicking yourself, I dropped a perfectly finished t-top on the front corner myself.
Agreed but my addition is to overfill slightly and as advised, very limit the sanding to just around the repair until you get to a very high sandpaper/polish and blend it in. It will look better, perfect match, no, don't look too closely!!!. Sorry to hear. The price we all pay for working on our own cars!! Ike
i would try short strand fiberglass from underneath. If you use a putty knife with enough pressure it will come up thru hole. Then use some sidecutters to cut fiberglass poking thru level. Bit of spot and glaze putty and sand very small area. then you can use your touch up paint. A match torn out of matchbook works excellent for a brush. Use enough to cover and then try buffing.
Good Luck
i would try short strand fiberglass from underneath. If you use a putty knife with enough pressure it will come up thru hole. Then use some sidecutters to cut fiberglass poking thru level. Bit of spot and glaze putty and sand very small area. then you can use your touch up paint. A match torn out of matchbook works excellent for a brush. Use enough to cover and then try buffing.
Good Luck
One of the little tricks that I have found is take some good 3-m tape and put a piece over the hole but you press it down tight on it and don't be afraid to put a second piece right on top of that !
Don't know if you know what gorilla hair or tiger hair is another name for it ! This stuff is fiberglass that is basically pulled apart and then added to resin ! It mixes up like bondo but has the strength of fiberglass!
So you mix it and put it in from underneath! Might need someone to make sure it doesn't push the tape up !
What you want is the hole filled with it just slightly concave on top if the tape is held down or flat even with the top !
After it sets up you pull the tape ! Then you need to rough the surface of the filler and then you can tape around the hole to fill with evercoat ! Once that is smooth then use a brush to apply primer and touch up !
It doable it's just not easy ! I make repairs like this all the time but I do normally repaint !
i would try short strand fiberglass from underneath. If you use a putty knife with enough pressure it will come up thru hole. Then use some sidecutters to cut fiberglass poking thru level. Bit of spot and glaze putty and sand very small area. then you can use your touch up paint. A match torn out of matchbook works excellent for a brush. Use enough to cover and then try buffing.
Good Luck
Good advice. I use an airbrush for touch-ups....from a pencil point to a small spray, works great.
No matter how it turns out, your eyes will always go to that spot.
Good luck.
The hardest part In my very limited experience is getting the paint to match. Depending on who, how long ago and with what your car was painted with matching can be tricky. I had a bunch of nicks, chips etc. especially by the t tops. Sloppy handling by the PO. But I got lucky and I took the t tops to a old school body shop paint supplier to match. It was mid day so I guess that a slow time for them. He spent about 40 minutes after using a analyzer to match the paint tweaking it by added different colors. I got a spray can and touch up paint for $30. Best $$ I ever spent on the Vette.
Bottom line it will always be visible to you and someone who knows what to look at, but to the majority of the people looking it’s fairly invisible.
Very slow process building up layers and polishing it in. My mistake was that I didn’t let it sit long enough for shrinkage of the fill and about 3 months later I have a ghost of were one of the larger repairs were. So be patient. Ike.
Slipped with my drill
now that's another whole problem. Which one do I choose! 
