Paper models of Telescopes

[Swampfox]

I was just looking around and came across this site.

Paper models of several Radio, Optical and Orbiting telescopes. No color, for the most part, but still interesting to some.

Like maybe Yogi.

| ALMA | Kids | Paper Models |

Swampfox

[SCEtoAUX]

I built a couple of those dish antennas a few years ago. They turned out good. You could build a bunch and make a VLA to talk to the ET's.

[Zakopious]

I printed the Peru radio telescope at 55% on light gray cardstock to give it some color.

It made a clean little model about 2 inches high.

I plan on using it to represent a Wurzburg mobile radar station in a 1/72 scale game to represent the British Airborne raid on Bruneval in 1942.

[Retired_for_now]

Thanks - link isn't cranking for me but I'm pretty sure I know what you've found. On the list if someone asks for one for display, but probably not otherwise (shelf space, dust collector, and "SHE who does not dust such things" likely precludes making any keepers).

Yogi

Next up I need to do a 1:48 enlargement of the JWST (the one I posted is 1:60) to better match the other space telescopes on display - i.e. Hubble - at the Planetarium (the existing small one goes to the Emerald Coast Science Center as a replacement - little hands with a strong grip ...); then maybe do the Bell Labs Holmdel radio telescope for the historic interest.