Repairing Particle Board Edges on a Donkey Kong Cab

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I have a Nintendo Cabinet that has a missing chunk out of the front left corner and a lot of erosion at the bottom of the kick plate.

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I'm wondering what the best approach is to repairing this. At one point, previous owner tried using bondo which didn't hold and looked like a mess.

The way I see it, I could take one of two paths:
  1. Use acrylic strips to reshape the rounded corner on the front with Bondo. Apply Bondo to the kick plate, but ensure that it forms a nice edge.
  2. Cut the corner off a few inches back and join it to a new piece of particle board with biscuits and wood glue or 5 minute epoxy. Similarly, cut a few inches off of the bottom of the kick plate and join to new particle board.
I have little experience with Bondo or joinery, but I'm open to learn. If anyone has a better suggestion, I'm open to that, as well. Thanks.
 
Do joinery for the corner. Big chunk of bondo like that won't hold if someone even slightly kicks it. If you lookup John's arcade Pac-Man cabaret restore on YouTube I think during the process he joined on a new corner. Will show you what to do at least if you've never seen it or done it. You're going to need some wood hardner too, your particle board looks like it's seen water. Also not sure if you know this but donkey Kongs sit on a base, your cab looks like it's been taken off. Could explain the corner damage or you may have taken it off for this restore. Not sure. Bondo is better for chunks taken out the side of the cab, smoothing over a joined section to make it invisible, and cracks that are the bottom toward the center not whole corners. Bondo would work well to fill in the bottom of the front of cab after you throw some wood hardener on it.
 
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