Since the nose of the aircraft is rounded all around, the designer chose a petal design for the nose.
Since I am not a fan of this method, I decided to make a test copy and build it to see how it looks before I sacrifice the kit parts.
Here is a picture ( on the left ) of the actual nose and the kit parts ( on the right )
parts are cut and ready to assemble
and the nose section being assembled
the final test nose section done.
For the paper purist, this is the final product. As for me, this will not do!
more soon......
Isaac