TIP: Here's how to make a four fin marking guide with a scrap piece of paper.


- Cut a strip of rectagular paper not quite a tall as the fin root edge. Be sure the edges and sides are square. Make it long enough to overlap when wrapped around the tube.
 - Wrap the strip tightly around the tube.
 - Where the start point met the wrap, I ran my fingernail down the joint making a slight crease. A pencil line was drawn down the crease. (Picture on left)
 - Remove the wrap from the body tube. The wrapped area (between the start and pencil line) was folded in half and a pencil line was drawn down that crease. (In the second picture, the overlap is to the left.)
 - Fold the outside ends into that middle pencil mark and crease the paper.
 - Draw pencil lines on those two new creases. (Picture on right)
 - Wrap the pencil marked guide around the tube and mark the top and bottom at the pencil marks.

 
Here I'm using the fin root edge and a wrap of tape as a length guide to make sure I don't scrape off too long a line.
The trailing root of the upper fins was glued right on the forward edge of the blue trim line.
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