3D print Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower)
A free, printable model of Big Ben, the Elizabeth Tower, with the Palace of Westminster, a bridge, the river and the surrounding streets of London, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower)
"Big Ben" is the nickname of the Great Bell inside the clock tower at the Palace of Westminster's northern end, in London, England, and the name is also used for the whole tower. The tower was first called the Clock Tower. In 2012 it was renamed the Elizabeth Tower to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee. The nickname comes from Sir Benjamin Hall, who oversaw the bell's installation.
Augustus Pugin and Sir Charles Barry designed the tower in the Perpendicular Gothic style, and it was completed in 1859 as part of Barry's plan for the new palace built after a fire in 1834 largely destroyed the old one. The tower is 96 m (316 ft) high, and reaching the belfry from the ground takes 334 steps. The base is square, 12 m (40 ft) on each side, and the clock dials are 6.9 m (22.5 ft) across. Its stone carvings include symbols tied to each of the UK's four countries and to the Tudor dynasty.
The clock still uses its original mechanism. When it was completed, it was the biggest and most accurate four-faced clock in the world that both struck and chimed. Edmund Beckett Denison and George Airy designed it, and Edward John Dent and Frederick Dent built it. The tower was renovated between 2017 and 2021, and the bells stayed silent for most of that time.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 26 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 33 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 42 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Slender spire and pinnacles
- The tower ends in a steep spire with small pinnacles at the corners. Print slowly with good cooling, and use 0.12–0.16 mm layers to keep the point crisp.
- Clock dials and pointed windows
- The clock faces and the narrow pointed windows are fine details. A larger print keeps them readable, and Full detail keeps every modeled feature on a bigger print or with a fine nozzle.
- One piece with the ground
- Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower) is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower) takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower) is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower) STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower) grows with the print: about 26 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
