☀️ Arselia and Akonia

- Hey, take a look, maybe there are round maps in the atlas. And high accuracy isn't really needed; he probably won't be traveling with this globe.

-- It doesn't matter if there are round maps in the atlas. Well, let's say... Wait, no, I almost started showing it, but then I'd ruin the atlas by crumpling the pages. Anyway, trust me, when transferring from a plane to a sphere, the image always gets distorted. But that's okay, we have parallels and meridians; we'll use them for orientation. And then we'll cover everything in foil, one color for land, another for the sea, yeah. And yes, accuracy is important! 😤 Just doing it haphazardly isn't interesting.

- Um, oops, - she giggled. - I think I got carried away.

-- Super! That's exactly what I needed from you. Now, come here. Here's a good piece of wood, and here's a milling cutter. Take it in your hand, and I'll take your hand in mine. Press the pedal, gently...

After a while, they created a perfectly round base, saving them the trouble of using a knife.

-- Great, now let's add the patterns; this doesn't require the milling machine.

Fyr herself polishes the hemispheres with the same milling cutter, but it takes her much, much longer because she has to work on the entire surface of the hemispheres. At the same time, she makes molds for the bronze parts, melts the bronze, and pours it... There were also steel inserts in some places for strength, in the form of thin sheets that still needed to be forged and bent. Probably, during all these procedures, Bea finished with the patterns.

-- Bea, let's move on to the map... I've marked it out; we need to transfer the relief with a pencil, and then we'll use foil and other tools... Let's do it in a ratio of two-thirds for me, one-third for you.