My rims actually turned out fairly decent.
Before:

After:


The texture hid the *many many many* flaws in the metal and I wet-sanded the outer ring to get a faux-chrome appearance. I was gonna clear coat just the outer ring but turns out the clear coat reacts with the hammered paint =P.

Also, just put the first layer of paint on my car.
After sanding and bondo:

After second coat of primer:

After wetsanding with 400 grit and more bondo patching and dent pulling. First color coat:


Didn't achieve full coverage but I rolled it on pretty thin (1:1 ration paint to thinner). Any thoughts/comments? Thanks!