That front lip is a birch to repair, it has always been common for these to get punched in the nose.
As long as you have no floppy metal surrounding, or "false stretch", the repaired front lips could be a candidate for lead fill, the rest looks like it will block out with maybe some light putty or a couple coats of high-build primer.
Lead is only really warranted when blending into a previously leaded area, or on the edge of a door jamb or somewhere where it's liable to get nicked/chipped.
When I have all of my metalwork done I do a light guide coat and vixen file the area, and my rule of thumb is that, as a minimum, repaired areas have to file to at least 50% clean metal, and no filled low spots over .050 thou thick.
If you're going to lead it, spend a few hours doing test pieces first, and yes lead has gotten stupid $$ nowadays.
You can save the runoff & excess drippings and pour it into sticks and reuse, that's where a cast iron lead pot comes in handy, but don't be tempted to used wheel weights, fishing sinkers, etc cuz the tin/lead ratio is unknown.
Glen
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