Singh you are my boy absolutely no hard feelings man. You and i both are 100% honest people, and i will never fault someone I respect for telling me I fucked up, becasue that right there is hella respect taken and given.
First off, on the quotes. This has been the downfall for me for YEARS. Just about everyone here who has had me do anything for them knows I undercut the living hell out of myself… And here is why.
I dont have all the money in the world either. When I look at a job, I look at it as if I myself were paying for it.
Case and point, I took a GTI big turbo kit’s intake tube and charge pipe tube for a member here this past weekend that didnt fit for shit, and made it in his words “Better than I could have ever expected”. (Grey GTI that works at Langan)… I made about 6 welds, and used 95% of the materials he had already, and welded in a section off the downpipe to meet the cat back for him. I had 8 hours time in making them perfect, and even powdercoating the tubes under the hood. I didnt charge him for my materials used and only charged him for 4 hours time. $260. I looked at the end results and said if I charged him $540 for those 2 tubes and 6" of exhaust work I would be a rapist. He said that was way less than he figured it would take (260) and he was prepaired to spend alot more. Call that a mistake on my end??? NO. Because now he wants us to tune the car and do alot more.
My point is, I would rather under charge and over accomplish than over charge and under accomplish… ESPECIALLY when its friends, people on here and friends of friends as in the case with Dave. In the case of the blasted hood, I will tell you I was more upset with the quality of my work than you were. 
I hate, hate, hate under accomplishing. I then find my self re-doing it and I have a hard time blocking out the mistakes and sometimes they lead to more mistakes, as in the hood. Stress managment, yep I need it.
Never the less, everything you stated Dave is 100% true. The flaws you pointed out are not something I would tuck tail and deny. I forgot the hood was purple, my mistake… I knew it was a dark ass color to start though. The hood is easily 6-7 feet tall I bet! and I am only 5’11" LOL. The hood is shot standing up on a stand. And you can exactly put the leading edge of the hood on the ground!.. so shooting the top edge you mentioned was accidentally showing black/purple through was sprayed blind, KK on his tippy toes arm fully extended… SAME with the peel, IRC the peel I couldnt get out was up top there too at the edges. I physically had a hard time doing it! Not excuses, becasue I am not asking for forgiveness for my mistakes… they are explanations so you and others dont think it was a case of “dont give a shit” work ethic.
If you have any pics of the hood, can you post them? I have NO problem showing people the truth.
BMW hood. Absolutely the worst example of me shooting myself in the foot taking on a job EVER. I dont know how else to say it, without being disrespectful to the owner so I will again play the straight up honesty card. The car was trailered to me, becasue the trans wouldnt hardly drive the car. While it was on the lot its the worst condition car we had there, next to a burned up RAM pickup. It had 4 different wheels, steering wheel with no airbag and nothing holding it on the shaft (comes right off in your hands), interior pieces missing, dash exposed, dirty, parts everywhere, every panel has scratches, dents and rust, rather sure it has a blown headgasket, battery was dead and I had to jump it 4 times to move it… Looking at it people asked my why would I even bother painting the hood and bumper? I was asked to was my reply. When I saw it show up, reffered through another friend, I couldnt just tell him to take it away, and i couldnt charge him more than the car was worth to do the job… I was stuck in a hard spot. I initially said get another bumper becasue it was cracked 8" long on one side, then he couldnt find one so we plastic welded it and repaired it, 3 hours of work+. The paint code that came back off the vin was wrong, and when I shot the color it was retarded off… but was still the best part of the car! Never the less, its not right, and re-sprayed it with the right color thankfully the second time and took money off for the time he took to come get it and wasnt happy with the color initially. The end result was BETTER than the entire car, by far… but not perfect. Would i take that hood and put it on a $30K bmw? nope. Would I put it on a $4K bmw, yes thats realistic. Being on a $1500 (after about 1000$ in repairs to get it even drivable) its more than acceptable.
Bottom line is, the Jag hood, and the BMW hood… spawned my “how paint jobs are done” thread… I am NEVER taking on work like that again. Like that Skidplate kid asking me to paint his truck after he does the body work, and I can tell by the kids “I know how to do the work” reply’s which are way off… it would look like shit… and people would only assume “KK painted it”… NO FUCKING WAY is it worth the money to get the half ass results.
Sorry for the book, but I needed to explain myself