# Stonehenge in detail **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 26, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge-in-detail/366115 "2006-07-26T17:26:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge-in-detail/366115/1 "2006-07-26T17:26:44Z")
I have to make a higly detailed, realistic 3D model of Stonehenge; I already have a whole bunch of image references, but I was wondering if there´s any source for dimensional drawings from the site. My Christams wish would be drawings for each individual stone, but maybe that´s too much to ask for. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge-in-detail/366115/2 "2006-07-26T18:12:23Z")
Here’s a site (without a lot of the usual pseudoscientific mummery) that has some rough dimensions for a scale model. [http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~scdiroff/lds/AstronomyAstrophysics/Stonehenge/Stonehenge.html](http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~scdiroff/lds/AstronomyAstrophysics/Stonehenge/Stonehenge.html) ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge-in-detail/366115/3 "2006-07-26T18:50:10Z")
[http://www.greatbuildings.com/models/Stonehenge\_mod.html](http://www.greatbuildings.com/models/Stonehenge_mod.html) > **[Stonehenge - Paper Model Kit for Intermediate Skill Level](https://paperlandmarks.com/collections/architectural-models/products/stonehenge-paper-model)** > > Make a 3D PAPER model of the STONEHENGE from PaperLandmarks worksheets, follow instructions, cut, fold, glue and imagine how the monumental circular setting of the large standing stones near Salisbury, England, might have looked like in ancient druid... HTH ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge-in-detail/366115/4 "2006-07-26T23:13:34Z")
Thanks for the links, the one with the dimensions for a scale model is the most useful so far. However the drawings and models lack the detail I need (it´s for a photorealistic CG scene on a movie). Today at work I muscled my way through 100 hundred different pictures of the stones and I managed to extract a front, rear and top view for most of the stones. I´ll have to look for more references still, so any other contributions are gladly accepted! ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge-in-detail/366115/5 "2006-07-26T23:25:35Z")
Just a small word of advice… I know that the dimension given for the height of the model says 18", but the band really wants it to be 18’. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge-in-detail/366115/6 "2006-07-26T23:39:10Z")
If you want to be lazy, there are a few models already done available for purchase on [Turbo Squid](http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Index.cfm?FuseAction=ProcessSearch&intStartRow=1&intMediaType=2&istSearchKey=stonehenge). ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge-in-detail/366115/7 "2006-07-27T13:10:49Z")
[You mean like this?](http://www.stonehengelaserscan.org/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge-in-detail/366115/8 "2006-07-27T13:17:11Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] If you want to be lazy, there are a few models already done available for purchase on [Turbo Squid](http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Index.cfm?FuseAction=ProcessSearch&intStartRow=1&intMediaType=2&istSearchKey=stonehenge). [/QUOTE] One of those 3D models looks good, but I´ll have to check with the studio director; my hunch is that he´ll want it done in-house, hey! we have quality standards here… 😃 **APB** , I had already visited that site, it´s very useful (specially the 360 degrees scan of the interior of the circle)