3D print Larnach Castle
A free, printable model of Larnach Castle, its towers and long wing on a green hilltop, with the winding roads and nearby buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Larnach Castle
Larnach Castle is a mock castle standing along the Otago Peninsula's ridge, inside the Dunedin city limits in New Zealand, near the little settlement of Pukehiki. Few houses in the country match its scale. William Larnach, a prominent entrepreneur and politician, built it as his private residence. He simply called it "The Camp", and local press first dubbed it a "castle" on December 8, 1874, a few days after he and his wife Eliza moved in.
Land for the castle was bought in 1870, and Dunedin architect R.A. Lawson was chosen to design the Gothic Revival mansion. Construction began in 1871 once the site was cleared and leveled. About 200 workmen finished the main structure with materials from around the world, though much of the stone came from a nearby basalt quarry. Glass was imported from Venice in 1875. In 1887 a 3000-square-foot ballroom was finished, a gift for the 21st birthday of Larnach's eldest daughter, Kate. The complex eventually had 43 rooms and a staff of 46 servants.
In 1906 the family sold the house. Across the twentieth century it changed owners and uses constantly and fell into disrepair, until Barry and Margaret Barker bought it in 1967; the Barker family has since carried out significant restoration. It is open as a tourist attraction billed as "New Zealand's only castle", and its gardens are among only five in the country that the New Zealand Gardens Trust has rated "Garden of International Significance". Heritage New Zealand designated it a New Zealand Landmark in 2018, and it is reputed to be among the country's most haunted buildings.
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 | 11 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Towers and battlements
- The castle has several small towers and battlemented parapets. Print friendly adapts these small parts to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print with a fine nozzle.
- Small on a big hillside
- The castle is small compared with the hillside around it, so a larger print size keeps the towers readable. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm help the fine detail.
- One piece with the ground
- Larnach Castle 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. Larnach Castle 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
Larnach Castle 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 Larnach Castle 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. Larnach Castle 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.
