Today's post is a continuation of drawing out the remaining planetary discs on sheets of birch plywood.
With the most difficult one, Saturn, completed, I proceeded to render the patterns for the remaining outer planets - Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune. The latter two were drawn as regular circles, with no attempt to duplicate any type of elongation.
For the inner planets, I went with a much different size scale. I couldn't stay with the same scale as the large outer planets, else they would be insanely tiny!
Using a five- inch diameter Earth, the other planets were quite easy to scale. I even included a small Moon to scale, which came out to roughly 1-1/2 inches in diameter.
Here are the ply sheets, all ready to take to the scroll saw:
Stay tuned...
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