Thanks to everyone for their support on this!!!
Small update. I got the side panels mounted.
Here you can see all the clamps I used to hold everything together.
And here is a shot of the bottom brackets.
I decided to check the fit of the top panel with the shape of the octagon.
It came out pretty good. with the exception of a few sides that I had to make frome that sligtly thicker CF that I ordered.
The thicker sides also caused a few joints to not align perfectly.
YOu can see how the thickness makes the one panel stick out form the other on in these shots.
I'll have to figure some way to clean these up.
Now that the sides are done, I can proced to mount the top panel. cut and mount the bottom panel. I still have a lot of work to do on the side panels cutting holes for the radiator exhaust, holes for the Raptor Hard drives. etc.
FUN, FUN!!!