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scratch built satellite dishes
Klaus-Adler
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Posted: Sunday, January 21, 2018 - 03:51 AM UTC
there was a post on here where someone showed how they made their own satellite dishes but for the love of me i can't find it. I think it was part of a middle east diorama but i can't find it can anyone help me please.
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Posted: Sunday, January 21, 2018 - 04:29 AM UTC
Have you tried doing a search using the function at the top of the page?

I just did a search for satellite dish and got a butt-ton of hits.
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Posted: Sunday, January 21, 2018 - 04:54 AM UTC

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Have you tried doing a search using the function at the top of the page?

I just did a search for satellite dish and got a butt-ton of hits.

yeah i did and i got a lot of links but none to the article/thread i saw them in.
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Posted: Sunday, January 21, 2018 - 01:37 PM UTC
I did a few dishes for a 1/87 (H0) railroad some years ago.
I cut them from table tennis balls. Looks OK for sizes up to almost 1/2-inch. In H0 this works for smallish dishes on houses.
In 1/35 it could work for the small portable communication sets.
The shape isn't totally perfect since they come from a sphere when they should be parabolical.
/ Robin
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Posted: Sunday, January 21, 2018 - 04:00 PM UTC
Ditto Robins comment



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Posted: Monday, January 29, 2018 - 12:13 AM UTC
The inside safety caps of milk cartons are good for a dish.

Tom
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