3D print the Parafield Airport Air Traffic Control Tower
A free, printable model of the Parafield Airport Air Traffic Control Tower, a stepped building with a curved bay and an octagonal cabin, on open ground, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Parafield Airport Air Traffic Control Tower
Heritage listing came on January 22, 2016, when the Parafield Airport Air Traffic Control Tower, on Kittyhawk Lane in Parafield, South Australia, joined the Australian Commonwealth Heritage List. It sits where an L-shaped row of hangars turns a corner on Parafield Airport. Its cabin faces directly south, looking over a wide apron on both its west and east sides, and the cabin's roof is about 25 m above the ground.
A temporary tower built at Parafield in 1937 had a two-storey base framed in timber, carrying a pyramid-roofed cabin with an external balcony. Between 1939 and 1941, integrated Operations and Administration buildings went up at Archerfield (Brisbane), Mascot (Sydney) and Parafield (Adelaide). Each was a symmetrical, stepped, three-storey building in the Moderne style, with streamlined styling, round porthole windows and horizontal lines cut into the render. Draughtsmen of the Department of Civil Aviation in Canberra designed this common plan around 1936.
In 1981 a larger octagonal cabin took the place of the original control cabin, sitting on an amenities level, square in plan, clad in profiled Colorbond, with a steel walkway around it. The north, road-side elevation is rendered and plain, with the Department of Civil Aviation's winged logo above the central entry, while the south elevation adds a central curved portico across all three levels.
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 | 9 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 11 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 14 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Antenna masts and railings
- Thin antenna masts and fine railings surround the control cabin. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print. Printing slowly helps the thin tips.
- Curved bay and stepped base
- A curved bay and stepped levels form the base of the tower. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the curves smooth.
- One piece with the ground
- The Parafield Airport Air Traffic Control 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. The Parafield Airport Air Traffic Control 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
The Parafield Airport Air Traffic Control 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 Parafield Airport Air Traffic Control 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. The Parafield Airport Air Traffic Control Tower grows with the print: about 9 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.
