Battle of the Bulge Part 2

This past weekend was the annual Turkey Run here in Daytona Beach.

 Back to square (or triangle) one

The show's organizers allow owners of cars built before 1979 to purchase a show pass to drive into the event. The only classic I have to drive right now is my son's "66 Mustang (http://1966mustangresto.blogspot.com) so I made the drive on Saturday and took my place between a '71 Chevelle SS and a '72 Dodge Challenger. Parked in front of me was a '55 Belair with a nice paint job, so I spent a good amount of time admiring it while I sat and took a break between swap meet forays.
The thing I focused on was the finished look of the fenders, and realized that what I was doing with my bulging fender wasn't acceptable. There was still a good hump there, albeit smooth to the touch. I knew that once I got a good shiny coat of paint on the car it would stand out like a sore (bulging) thumb, so today I sucked it up and took all of the body filler off again.
This time, instead of simply cutting a line that I would try to pull together, I decided to cut a whole triangle section

Welded in, and hopefully a better contour to work with

out and put a new flatter piece in. This was also due to the metal around the old welds getting thin from so much grinding of the old weld.
The replacement piece went in really well, and a preliminary run of the hand seems to indicate that I might have resolved most of the problem. I didn't have time to apply any filler this afternoon, so the true test will come tomorrow after I apply a couple of layers and sand it down. Fingers crossed.