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Re: Celestial globe gores
From: David Pike
Date: 2023 Jan 7, 15:11 -0800
From: David Pike
Date: 2023 Jan 7, 15:11 -0800
Tibor
Your globe looks brilliant. I seem to remember attending a talk, pre-cadcam, from a graphics expert who mentioned pre-stretching his paper by brushing with water before using water colours. Re: the wrinkles along the edges due to flat v spherical surface, diy wallpapering experience suggests you can squash most of the edge wrinkles out using a decorators roller. It's worth a try. DaveP