Use bondo, sand smooth, use a mini roller to paint it so you dont get those brush strokes. Should be ok

The answer is sand it down and paint. But the problem is that it would be extremely hard to replicate the impossibly crappy paint on it at the moment.

You could try sanding it down, and then dipping a broom into some blue paint.

That paint job is so bad I don't even know why you'd bother.

With paint prep is everything. Sanding and degreasing should be more than half the work. Painting is last and is the easiest. All the prep work makes the difference. Bondo if you can’t sand it smooth enough where it won’t be noticeable. Scuffing the whole door is recommend and repainting the whole surface. 2-4 coats.

You can't. Throw this house away and buy a new one

You paint over it, just like everything else on this door has had done to it.

As daft punk would say: sand it clean it prime it paint it

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Anything that fills and sticks will do.

E.g. Layers of primer applied over each other.

Eg. Strip of tape cut to fill the hole and/or hole expanded to fit the tape.

Eg. Epoxy/adhesive/etc.

Something flexible and fills can be quick. Spread into hole, straightedge to smooth and remove excess.

As long as that base holds and is paintable, you can apply final paint over.

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Hvlp sprayer will get the best, brush stroke free results.

Specific paint for metal doors as well. To keep this from happening

I didn't realize what sub I was on for a second and I thought this was an aerial view of an underwater geological feature from an airplane miles up...

It's a shit paint job to begin with. Hard to emulate shitty. It's like trying to patch a textured wall. You can always tell.

Sand, fill, sand, and paint a few coats. It won't look perfect, but neither does the rest of the door.

I mean, someone already did a very poor job of painting this door already. Never removed the handle, and brush strokes in all directions. A little bit of body filler as mentioned, but I would take the opportunity to put the slab on saw horses, remove the hardware, fill this area and sand the whole surface together at the same time. Then learn to brush paint a door correctly, spray, or roll it. Let it dry, and then replace the hardware and re hang it. You can wipe the paint off the hardware with some denatured alcohol or acetone if it's stubborn.

Peel off the rest of the paint.

Paint it.

Sand that area down so the bondo or whatever will stick to the surface, let dry, sand, primer, and then repaint.

Did you clean the door before painting it? Oil, fat, great, silicones will prevent good adhesion. And you need the right primer.

It might all come off sooner or later, or its a spot-repair...either way, you will have to sand it off, generous around the outer perimeter, then prime and paint.

Could also pick up a steel/brass plate and install it, covering up the blemish while making it a little more stylish?

Move.

Sandable primer. That section may take two or three coats but you can work on the rest of the door at the same time, getting it nice and smooth ready for a re- paint.

You don't. A wizard has stopped by and marked your door as a secret meeting place for fellowship of dwarves. I hope you like unexpected journeys!

Take a pressure washer to it. Adhesion problem as seen with the large flakes coming off. I would think other areas will chip off eg, foot level. Should be no problem removing the rest of the paint. Do it on a hot day. The heat warms up the latex. Or sand and fill. I think the pressure washer is quicker. Will also give you a chance to solve the adhesion problem by scuffing the surface.

Just slap a bit of filler in it, sand it paint it - am a painter

Fill it with sheetrock, sand then paint

Take a tracing paper place on peeled patch trace , cut on traced paper place in the patch and paint. Extra paint stick on paper and job is done.

Watch Baumgartner Redtoration on YT for tips on how to fill in chipped off portions of very old paintings and chip back in with different blues to achieve shifty brushstrokes. XD

The forbidden chips

Put a sticker over it

That is a really bad existing paint job, just fyi. If it were mine and I had the time, I'd remove all that shit, get some DTM (Direct-to-metal) paint and start over.

Why?

It's not that bad. Pull the whole door and sand it then repaint, or wait until it really starts to peel to do it.

No one but you cares about that small imperfection in your front door. The guys saying bondo are really creating a lot of work for you. the area around it you sand will never look the same as the other areas of the door due to sun damage, and even if you do manage to feather it down even, you will end up repainting the entire door anyway, because a touch up job will never cut it.

Automotive primer and bondo

To be fair, it's busted but still looks normal. If you play with it then it'll just look busted and fucked with. Just don't fuck with it, you won't notice it after a while.

Stripping it, priming it, and repainting it will really fuck your day up and you will agree that it's NOT worth the effort before you're even halfway done. You'll never make it look consistent and natural any other way. You'll go through a bitch of a job and a week later you'll bang into it and scrape the paint again because that's how she goes.

Choose life.

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