Hi Kevin, it would probably help quite a lot if you could post some pictures over in that thread (especially close-ups of the canopy) of the real shape.

Otherwise it is just hard for me to understand exactly what you mean by "flatness" or make it look right from the front, etc...

It sounds a bit like you may want to focus more on adjusting the shape of that centerline scaling rail curve to fine tune the shape that is generated.

Definitely though just drawing contours of irregular topology and trying to surface directly to all of them as exact edges of sweeps or networks usually does not tend to give the best results.

- Michael