how to turn a nerf side cover into an asphalt one

The individual picture on the left is a "before" I fiberglassed the cover. the picture on the right is the "after" actually i re made the drivers side one after it de laminated and the right one just needs a some more sanding and a bondo smoothing. after it was fiberglassed it felt, looked and kinda smelled like asphalt. the weird thing is its really strong but pretty flexible. i put it on the bike and the top conformed to the sides. drivers side will get glassed tomorrow and sanded on Saturday. should have them finished and installed by Monday

side covers made by nerf

so I'm fiberglassing my side covers right now. they have been splashed with resin/hardner mixture and are sitting out side drying now. good thing to know. if the resin/hardner mixture is mixed a certain way it generates it own heat. and alot of it. instead of covering them with glass mat i just wrapped them in this carpet and coated them. i'll bring them in in the morning and see if they are even any good. i torched my lungs, burnt my fingers and have resin on my arm hair... but it beats the shit out of spending 50 bucks per side for a set of new ones at the junk yard...
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update; 7/7: after letting them dry all last night and this morning after lunch at work i started checking them out. turns out the resin/hardener or the 110+ heat caused the mat to seperate from the aluminum. it still hardened but a good thress inches from the original form. it only did it on one of the covers. one turned out damn near perfect.i'll post a picture tonight. i have already sanded it and will bondo it in the morning.

Ghetto Fab-ulous

a few months ago i made some side covers and planned to fiberglass them... turns out i don't know shit about fiberglass. in my attempt to learn to fiberglass i ruined my forms. I had long gotten rid of my templates for them and had to start from scratch and make some new ones. I took some paper thin aluminum to reform new side covers. now i'll either retry my hand at fiberglassing or ask a friend at work to do it for me. heres what the right side looks like. hence the title "Ghetto Fab-ulous"