Well after more than 10 hours of filling, sanding, filling, sanding, filling, sanding.....
undercoat, spot putty, sand, spot putty, sand....

She finally has some undercoat.

The body was fairly good had a few nicks and scratches, but the head had serious planking, both sides and top, very deep, had to spend heaps of time on it, after I thought it was ok I got the first undercoat on it, it was still bad, I spot filled the whole surface of both sides and sanded back, spot putty again lots more sanding, then 3 coats of primer, smoooth!