chop chop

as you can see the area to be chopped was expertly and very accurately marked out, yeah yeah get on with the cutting.

 

voila...

 

the repair piece needed some more 'expert' trimming to get it to sort of line up

 

hmmmm, getting the curve to match the wheel arch is going to be tricky, i should really shrink the metal to for the curve, but i don't have time to get myself a lifetimes worth of panel beating experience in a couple of hours play time so out came the tin snips again.