Look back at the Stine drawings and you can see how the diagonal stripes intersect each other. One lays on top of the other to the thickness of one stripe.
I used a piece of 7/32" wide Contact paper for a thickness reference.
Tape the nose cone to the body tube so it won't rotate while placing the diagonal stripes.
Four more reference pieces were set down to line up the diagonal stripes.
Notice how the 3/8" thick stripe is buckling when going around the taper of the nose cone. It only buckles on the upper half of the stripe.
Remember this for later!
Don't burnish down these horizontal (around the body) stripes. They will be lifted later to trim the diagonals.
This picture shows the first diagonal layed down using the reference pieces as a guide.
Look from the rear to be sure it is straight. You can see the curve on this piece of trim tape.
After lifting and re-positioning a few times the line is pretty straight.
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