Still a few details on the outside to address before the cladding goes on. The checker-plate sheeting needed to be measured and ordered from our local steel supplier, then fitted. We put it on before the sides as we wanted to integrate them and lock them together in a way that would eliminate any future leaks. After the checker-plate was secured, we glued and screwed the moulded aluminium strip as seen in the pics and this would support and seal the sides.
When the rear checker-plate was partly on, we secured the tail lights.
Kelvin and Carl spent quite some time deciding how best to position the cladding with the optimum results. We could have easily just lay the cladding over top of the checker-plate, but we didn't think that was going to look very good and it would certainly look unfinished. Because the cladding was 4mm, as was the moulding, it was never going to fit in nicely. Mercifully Kelvin, with his amazing tool kit, had just the right one (sorry, have forgotten the name of it) to router down the thickness of the cladding, thereby enabling to slot into the aluminium support track. As you can see in the pic below, they did a test on a small piece of the striped aluminium composite. It was a sweet result!
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