3D print the Broch of Mousa
A free, printable model of the Broch of Mousa on its Shetland island, with its round dry-stone tower and the surrounding shoreline, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Broch of Mousa in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- Real height
- 13 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 4 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
13 m of the Broch of Mousa, 4 mm on your shelf
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.
- Dry-stone courses
The tower's surface is modeled as thin, irregular stone courses, and the top is an uneven wall walk around an open court. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm help keep the stone relief readable at small sizes.
- Narrow entrance and stair
The single western doorway and the intramural stair are small spaces cut through thick walls. Print friendly adapts these fine openings at small scales; a larger print keeps the passage and stair clearer.
- One piece with the ground
The Broch of Mousa 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. The Broch of Mousa 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 the Broch of Mousa
The Broch of Mousa is an Iron Age round tower that survives on Mousa, an island in Shetland, Scotland. No other broch still stands as tall, and it ranks among Europe's best-preserved prehistoric buildings. It is thought to date from around 300 BC, and it belongs to a group of more than 500 brochs raised across Scotland.
The tower stands on the island's western shore, overlooking Mousa Sound, the narrow channel between the island and the South Mainland of Shetland. Its base rests on flat rock at the tip of a low promontory by the shore, next to the tidal Loch of Mousa. Boats reach the island from Sandwick, which lies 14 miles (23 kilometers) south of Lerwick.
The tower reaches 13.3 meters (44 ft), and its only doorway is a passage at ground level on the west side. Inside, a stair climbs within the thickness of the wall to the top, and six galleries run between the inner and outer walls. The tower uses dry stone throughout, without mortar, and it is the only broch complete nearly to the top, including its original intramural stair.
About this model
The Broch of Mousa is one of more than 4,900 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.
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