Petrol tank before repainting

Here's a few pictures of the tank before it went to the sprayers.


Looking at the underside the paint looked quite good and shiny.
Unfortunately under all the paint was a slight bit of surface rust.

So before going to the sprayers I stripped the paint as below, further after with various abrasives I got the underside gleaming like new, but I forgot to take a picture of that.

Using up the last bit of stripper I took some of the paint off the top.
The top didn't have anywhere near the amount of surface rust on it.

It then went to the spayers the next day to be given a new coat of metalic blue.