New hood alignment fun. Any advice?

And sometimes you gotta align/adjust the fenders too.
I know what you're going thru as it's exactly what I'm doing as we speak. I'm finding that the trick is to lay the hood where you want it with the fenders loose and align the hood in reference to the fenders. I'm prolly doing what not to do but it's working for me so far. Agreed it's frustrating as I've already chipped my brand new paint.:mad: