Bending acrylic
Heat bending the acrylic for the case
Loaned my mums paint stripper heat gun and using utube as a guide, bent my acrylic to make the "hood" of the card reader. Hardest part was making card angle guides to help me bend the acrylic to the right angle before letting it cool off to set. However for a first attempt it all went as good I could have hoped for. Not perfect but not a disaster. Most importantly the angles all came out just right.
After routing the slots in the MDF I now just need to cut out the display rectangle to mount the LCD in the acrylic.