Creating shadow in Illustrator

Hi,
Hope this finds you well.
I am trying to trace the attached photo of a military canteen but am having some trouble with creating:
-the shadows on the ridges of the cap
-the shadows in the beveled edge of main circular body area.
-creating the bloat on the main circular body area. The bloat effect doesn't accomplish that and the extrude tool doesn't either.
Your guidance and help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

-the shadows on the ridges of the cap
Just trace shapes and fill them with black
-the shadows in the beveled edge of main circular body area.
Make a gradient, put a compound shape on top sue as a mask
-creating the bloat on the main circular body area. The bloat effect doesn't accomplish that and the extrude tool doesn't either.
Draw an outer shape and you can stroke it with none (mine is a stroked circle so you can see this, it acts as a bounding box and is very important for the distortion). Use Inflate, you reference image looks like it has about 5% horizontal distortion also.

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