3D print Government House, Wellington
A free, printable model of Government House in Wellington, its many gables and chimneys, and the lawns, green slopes and streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Government House, Wellington
Government House in Wellington is the principal residence of New Zealand's governor-general, who represents the head of state. The present building is the third Government House in Wellington. Completed in 1910, it stands in the suburb of Newtown. Besides serving as a home and workplace, it is where the governor-general entertains the public, receives visiting heads of state and the credentials of ambassadors, and where ministers are sworn in.
After a 1907 fire at the wooden Parliament Buildings, the government commissioned a new Government House. The first governor-general to occupy it was John Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington, who lived there from 1910 to 1912. In October 2008 it closed for a conservation and rebuilding project worth NZ$44 million, and it reopened in March 2011.
The residence has an eclectic design that imitates a half-timbered Tudor mansion, meant to recall a large English country house, with rooms ranging from Elizabethan and Tudor to Georgian and Regency. The house itself spans 4,200 m2 (about 45,000 sq ft), and its grounds total 12 hectares (30 acres), bordering Alexandra Park, plus the Mt Victoria Town Belt.
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 | 7 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 9 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 12 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Chimneys and gables
- Many small gables, tall chimneys and a little cupola crowd the rooflines. Print friendly adapts the thinnest ones to your scale; a bigger print or Full detail keeps more.
- Hilly, sloping grounds
- The house sits on rising ground with wide lawns. Print the base flat on the bed, and use 0.12–0.16 mm layers so roof edges stay crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- Government House, Wellington 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. Government House, Wellington 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
Government House, Wellington 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 Government House, Wellington 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. Government House, Wellington grows with the print: about 7 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.
