Building the porch back on the house

The first project was removing the pediment over the door and concrete steps. We built the porch across the front of the house. It is 10 feet wide and 61 feet long. John & I along with a friend we hired built the whole thing. Ed Zimmer, the historic planner in the planning department told me he thought the pediment was original to the house. So when we removed it, we saved it. I did find that it had been cut down, so it was indeed original to the house. I removed all the paint I could from it but found I wasn't getting it as clean as I wanted, so I had it stripped.
When it came back, John mounted it on a piece of plywood for me. Then by calculating the angles, I drew on the plywood the original dimentions. John cut the plywood on the lines I had drawn. Then he mounted a 1x1 along the edges. The pediment is mounted on the plywood and then around 2 edges there is a gap between the pediment and the edge of the plywood. I used bondo that is used for filling dents in cars and filled the gap between the pediment and the edges of the plywood.
After it dried and hardened, I took the roto tool and the ends of the starburst that had been cut off in the remodel, I was able to replicate the carving.
Once the cutting was done, I primed the whole surface. Then painted the whole surface white with several coats of paint. Then I started painting the starburst with a small artists brush with burgandy paint. It took 6 coats of paint to make the starburst stand out like it should.
The pediment was mounted in the dormer like roof over the entrance.
We bought a transformer and put low voltage lighting around the pediment and on the stairs of the porch. We keep both lit in the evenings. to show off the pediment and light the stairs.