: I transferred all the co-ordinates for the guillemot in the book
: onto graph paper and this was the shape of all the forms. The
: flat top ones did not have any top parts to remove. Unless I
: have made a mistake somewhere with tranferring the data, as it
: was two years ago that I drew the templates.

Interesting. I'm using the pre-printed pattern Nick sells. Apparently the specs in the book don't include the cutoff parts that are on the pattern. Here's a picture of my form 8 looking from the bow.