Ok, I can speak to this. You have no idea how much work it is!!!! I decided to polish just the stripes on my car thinking I could whip them out in no time and see how I liked it. My plan was to start there and then finish the whole body, and you know what? You have to be seriously insane (see Pat Buckley for reference
) or you have waaaaay too much time on your hands. It's a whole hell of a lot of work.
I have spent approximately 50 hours on the stripes and I am not done. I have probably 8 more hours, plus a few more cuz it always takes longer than I think.
Also, if you like to be clean, this is NOT the job for you. You'll be covered from head to toe in charcoal colored dust and grime. Even if you do all wet sanding you'll find you get dirty, and then when you start hitting the thing with your polisher, forget about staying clean period. My whole face outside the goggles and resperator was darg grey. Nice.
I guess what I am saying is that no matter what you THINK you are capable of, you need lots of time and strong mental state to make it work.
I think Pat said it took him 200 or more hours to do his whole body, and I have no doubt it's that long or longer for someone with good skills/sense.
I've been broken, and the stripes are it for me.