Captain America Shield from used satellite dish

Step 2 Draw circle

The satellite dish was an oval shape, and Captain America's shield is a round concave disk.

I was worried that a circle cut from the oval-shaped dish would look warped. But once it was cut out, the circle looked perfectly fine.

I eyeballed where the center of the dish was and put down three or four pieces of masking tape, which provided a place for the needle of my homemade compass to bite. I then drew as large a circle as would fit within the back lip of the dish.

Comments

[Hellwolve]

When someone else reading this and for future projects...There's a neat little trick for getting the centre of a perfect(ish) circle some may not know. You need a machinist square or try square for it, ideally one with a 45 degree notch at the corner, plus a length of something straight, such as a ruler.

Push the circle into the corner made by your machinist/try square, add the straight length of whatever on top of your square, making sure it's at a 45 degree angle to the square, draw a line.

Turn the square/length contraption roughly 90 degrees, repeat. The crossing of the two lines will be the centre of your circle.

Basically you're creating a virtual square with sides that are equal to the diameter of the circle.

[seamster]

That's a good trick. Thanks!