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More progress already!
Isn't the Internet wonderful! I was able to find some YouTube videos on how to cut up wire mesh in Sketchup. It turned out to be really simple. So I was able to cut this single-piece fender into three sections: Rear Fender, Running Board, and Front Fender.
Now that I have the front fender isolated I can start cutting it up into the sections that I'll actually make. This way I'll have drawings for each section. I can also draw up the wooden bucks using this Sketchup fender as a guide.
I can make my wooden bucks customized to the seven individual panels that I'll be making for the full fender. This is going to be GREAT!
If all I ever do is successfully make a front fender I'll consider that to be a major accomplishment.
Anyway, here's some more pictures of how I cut the fender up in Sketchup and showing how you can then view the fender from any perspective you like. It's all drawn in actual 3-D. And you can scale it however you like.