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SavannahLion:
You know what? Let me do this. Here is what I want to form. (Ignore the blue band, It's intended to be one solid piece).

The width measures 25" at the widest point, 5 1/2" from top to bottom. The compound curves (the white portion) is based on a 4" radius which makes the corner pieces 8"D 1/8 spheres.

There are two identical finished pieces, one w/ the cutout and one without. The cutout is the "back" to a control panel. The hole is the mounting area and a way for the electronics to be threaded through into the cab.

Initially, I intended to have this be segmented into four pieces using a prefabricated aluminum bowl that was cut into 1/4's and simple bends in a sheet of aluminum. But after a lot of searching, I found that the bowl shape alone cost as much or more as the materials for the rest of the shape!!

If I go with the 1100 aluminum, it might be too soft. So the idea might be to "bond" a layer of shaped wood with a flexible adhesive so the CP and the acrylic (above and behind the blue band) has a place to attach to properly.

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