Thanks for the comments, everyone! Wonderful to get such lovely response after working on it for so long
I've put some WIP pictures on my website, it's still not completely functional with all the links but you can view the gallery itself here. (I've made a page with a short write-up of the process, but I can't get it to show up yet… working on it)
And yes ideed, Chick is the other person who was tasked with this! The plan was always to make two sets, so we worked in parallell from the beginning, trading WIP photos, ideas, research and techniques. I've seen very little of Chick's globes and am very excited to see the big reveal