model sail making

OK, sailors, tell me how to make a sail for a model sailboat. I have an old childhood toy, a little solid-wood hull that had been dismasted over the years. The hull form was pretty close to a Star, so I used the Star's rig dimensions scaled to the model's hull length and made a wood mast and boom.. Now I need to make a sail. To get the shape into the main, some draft into it, I assume that I need to take some short skinny v-shaped snippets out of the luff, and some longer skinnier v-shaped snippets out of the leech. Has anybody ever done this? Chris Campbell