Step 24 says to draw it with a pencil and paint it with gloss black paint.
I didn't think that would give a smooth enough surface.
I took a gamble and it worked very well.
Dwayne Surdu-Miller came up with a great way to mark the circular canopy on the ball nose cone. Trace around some body tube ends!
The inset picture shows the faint initial base line. This straight line is just below the mid point of the ball. The straight base line gives you something to attach the right and left side curves onto.
The right side of the picture shows the body tube you trace around for the round right and left sides of the canopy. I used a BT-20 tube.
The midpoint of the tube touches the penciled base line. Draw around the tube with a pencil.
The smaller arc at the top was simply drawn by hand.
Before filling in the canopy with black, double check to be sure the baseline is straight and the sides are evenly drawn.
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