Cliff,

Er, I wrote "creative", not "procreative"...

Back to the windscreen. If you are thinking of blind rivets like Pop rivets, they would stand proud of the surface quite a bit - outside surface most likely, since you want this conformal to the pot. Tiny little eyelets like miniature grommets - possibly found in your wife's sewing junk box - could be set like cold rivets and even hammered flatter, and there are dozens of other improvised methods that could work OK.. Next time you're on a jobsite, ask the HVAC sub / sheetmetal sub for a scrap of whatever will work for you - assume that 16 ga is too heavy to mess with and that 28 ga is too light (store bought DiY flashing is usually 28 ga more or less). They might even seam it for you if you ask nicely... a sheetmetal shop could roll a locking seam for you in a few seconds - which gives me an idea.

What is the perimeter of the kit you want this to work with? I have a cheap and easy idea that may get close to what you're after: Use one of the standard diameter steel stove pipes (e.g. 6" diameter). A little careful repousse work with a cut-off section of stovepipe might do nicely or there are other methods to convince a bit of sheet metal to assume the shape you want. I could go look at the links you posted and guess, but I'm too laz... I mean tired.

I've had an MSR XGK for an embarassingly long time and now that I stop to think about it, I have never used anything other than a particular 2 liter pot with it, which is a close fit to the windscreen - it can't very readily blow away. The original wind screen not only soldiers on, it does daily duty in my ready pack (sorta like a mini-BoB) along with an Esbit stove. Since I'm rarely on glaciers or vast snowfields these days, the XGK doesn't get a workout very often anymore... what I'm getting at is that a custom-sized soft aluminum windscreen still might work well... and I should make one that's the right size for the pot in my ready kit and put the MSR screen back with the XGK.

Tom