NOT A PAINTER
A lot of good advice and ideas, thanks. I'm going with a complete do-over. Like my ol' man said "The road to success is paved with failure". I do no not think there was an adhesion issue, as I'm having to be verry meticulous as I blast them to get complete removal.

I believe my downfall was using a DA to sand the tops. I am going with the wet hand sanding on this attempt. I'm pretty sure that will give me the results I'm looking for. I like the idea of from
@harrisonm of sanding primer from the raised areas before moving on to the color.

Thank again for all the advice.