Patching Up A Painted Panel? *Update: Figured it Out*

[Vulgar Soul]

Been priming my cab soon to be painted, and let's just say I noticed a small air bubble on one of my panels. Tried to remove the bubble and jus made it worse. Now it has a noticable scratch/dent on the surface.

So I rolled a bit more prime over it, but it's still pretty noticable. It's not a severely DEEP scratch but it is fairly visible beneath the primer at this moment. I think it can be either painted over or patched up, and painted over.

Any suggestions on this? I was thinkin I can either heavily spot prime over the scratch, let it dry, and then sand away the thick excess till its level and smooth. Or maybe I put wood filler over the dented area, sand it smooth and level and paint over it.

Good ideas or no?

!!!EDIT!!! : Nevermind y'all, I did exactly the second method. Patched up the scratch with wood filler, lightly sanded and smoothed it level with the rest of the surface, reapplied paint. Good as new. I asked in the first place because I was a little worried about the color of the wood filler bleeding onto the surface or some sort of effect of the dry woodfiller beneath the wet paint, but I gave it a try it and it came out fine.

I guess a mod can delete this thread, or leave it here for any other newbie's reference.

[Ond]

Been priming my cab soon to be painted, and let's just say I noticed a small air bubble on one of my panels. Tried to remove the bubble and jus made it worse. Now it has a noticable scratch/dent on the surface.

So I rolled a bit more prime over it, but it's still pretty noticable. It's not a severely DEEP scratch but it is fairly visible beneath the primer at this moment. I think it can be either painted over or patched up, and painted over.

Any suggestions on this? I was thinkin I can either heavily spot prime over the scratch, let it dry, and then sand away the thick excess till its level and smooth. Or maybe I put wood filler over the dented area, sand it smooth and level and paint over it.

Good ideas or no?

A small dob of Bondo on the scratch/pit/pinhole smoothed over with a blade Exacto / craft blade or similar so that just a thin film sits above the surface.  sand back flush, and then overspray with primer.  Problem solved.  Wood filler will work too, just not as well.

[Vulgar Soul]

Been priming my cab soon to be painted, and let's just say I noticed a small air bubble on one of my panels. Tried to remove the bubble and jus made it worse. Now it has a noticable scratch/dent on the surface.

So I rolled a bit more prime over it, but it's still pretty noticable. It's not a severely DEEP scratch but it is fairly visible beneath the primer at this moment. I think it can be either painted over or patched up, and painted over.

Any suggestions on this? I was thinkin I can either heavily spot prime over the scratch, let it dry, and then sand away the thick excess till its level and smooth. Or maybe I put wood filler over the dented area, sand it smooth and level and paint over it.

Good ideas or no?

A small dob of Bondo on the scratch/pit/pinhole smoothed over with a blade Exacto / craft blade or similar so that just a thin film sits above the surface.  sand back flush, and then overspray with primer.  Problem solved.  Wood filler will work too, just not as well.

I only have wood filler right now, but it worked fine for patching up the scratch. It wasn't that deep anyway just kinda put me off looking at it. Painted it over and it looks and feels solid.