3D print Blackpool Tower
A free, printable model of Blackpool Tower, its lattice shaft and domed base, with the nearby streets and the sea's edge, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Blackpool Tower
Blackpool Tower, in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, opened to the public on May 14, 1894. At that time it was the British Empire's tallest man-made structure. It takes its inspiration from the Eiffel Tower in Paris and reaches 158 m (518 ft). The name also commonly refers to the Tower Buildings, an entertainment complex housed in a three-story red-brick block, which holds the Tower Ballroom, Tower Circus, roof gardens and the tower itself. That complex received Grade I listed status in 1973.
The tower was designed by James Maxwell and Charles Tuke, architects from Lancashire, who oversaw the foundation stone being laid on September 29, 1891, but both had died by the time it opened. Heenan & Froude were the structural engineers, and the builders used a new hydraulic riveting system. Construction took 3,534 t (3,478 long tons) of steel, 358 t (352 long tons) of cast iron and five million Accrington bricks. The Tower Circus building hides the tower's base.
The tower was not painted properly in its first thirty years and corroded, which led to talk of demolition. It was rebuilt instead, with all the steelwork replaced between 1920 and 1924. In 1940 the crow's nest was removed so the structure could serve as a radar station for the Royal Air Force, called RAF Tower; the scheme did not succeed. Frank Matcham designed the Tower Ballroom, which opened in 1899, and mahogany, oak and walnut blocks, 30,602 in all, make up its sprung floor.
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 | 43 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 54 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 69 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A thin lattice shaft
- The tower is an open lattice of slender struts under a tall spire. Print friendly adapts the thinnest parts; Full detail keeps every strut on a larger print. Print slowly with good cooling.
- Domes on the base building
- Small domes sit at the corners of the wide base. A larger print size keeps them distinct, and layers of 0.12–0.16 mm help the curves stay crisp.
- 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. Blackpool 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
Blackpool 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 Blackpool 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. Blackpool Tower grows with the print: about 43 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.
