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... Give the body of the panel a bit of rough curvature, and then give it a test fit. Unfortunately, here, I screwed up.
To bend the patch to match the body curve, I clamped a chunk of big pipe in the vise and hand bent the panel over that.
The radius was too small, however, and I wound up with a set of vague flat bends rather than a smooth curve.

This panel will eventually need a lot of massaging before final paint, so it's not a huge issue, but it was
kind of a dumb mistake. I eventually worked most of the lines out, but they still annoyed me.





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