I was able to apply a second coat of brown to the stress panel today and also cut out another ply section for the offside boot interior lining.

With the red oxide now dry I was able to spray the outer face of the new stress panel with aluminium paint today.  In between coats I manufactured more plywood sections to line the nearside of the boot interior.  This took several attempts to get a good fit.

Yesterday and today were spent in completing the boot stress panel, including deburring the holes and spraying both  both sides with several coats of red oxide primer.  Whilst the paint was drying I cut some 6mm ply for the boot wall lining on the nearside.  I thought this would fit in one piece however on trial fitting it became obvious that it needed to be split horizontally in order to accommodate the complex shape of the body frame in the boot.