Per some good advice from DaveS, I made some changes to the fairing I was working on which really improved the overall look (attached).

I placed it in Orbiter atop glider's Falcon 9 rocket and it looks ok. I have some cleanup work to do on the inner edges but otherwise it doesn't look half bad to me. One thing I did notice though, when launching the rocket, the minute I jettison the fairing I get a CTD. Not sure what is causing that but I'm going to keep digging.

*Update...

After many months (years, actually) of wanting to get into addon development, I finally set aside some time today to begin work on a mesh for my own personal use as a learning tool for developing better addons in the future. I've chosen for my first project the SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher. I know there are already at least two other addons available for this launcher, but I wanted to create my own addon start to finish and felt this one was as good a place as any.

I decided the fairing...