3D print the RAF Elvington control tower
A free, printable 3D model of the RAF Elvington control tower in Yorkshire, shown with the surrounding airfield area and generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
RAF Elvington control tower 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.
- On a 160 mm print
- 2 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
2 mm tall on a 160 mm print
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.
- A small tower on a big airfield
A control tower is a compact building with small windows and rails. A larger print size or Full detail keeps them, while Print friendly simplifies thin parts for small prints.
- One piece with the ground
The RAF Elvington 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 RAF Elvington 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 the RAF Elvington control tower
RAF Elvington was a Royal Air Force airfield at Elvington, Yorkshire, England, in operation from the start of the Second World War to 1992. The station began as a grass airfield, and in the early 1940s it was rebuilt with three hardened runways. It reopened in October 1942 as home to 77 Squadron RAF. In May 1944 two French squadrons, 346 "Guyenne" and 347 "Tunisie", took over from 77 Squadron. No other airfield in the United Kingdom was used by what remained of the Free French Forces.
In 1952 the airfield was greatly enlarged to serve the United States Air Force, which built a runway of 3,094 m (10,151 ft), the longest of any in the north of England, plus a rectangular hardstanding apron and a new control tower. The aim was a "Basic Operation Platform" that would have served as a Strategic Air Command dispersal airfield. After £4 million was spent, it was never operational as a SAC base, and the USAF abandoned it in 1958.
The airfield finally closed in March 1992. The runway later hosted speed record attempts. In 1970 Tony Densham took the outright wheel-driven record there, officially, in a dragster, averaging 334.1 km/h (207.6 mph). The tower and neighboring buildings were restored and house the Yorkshire Air Museum, whose collection includes a complete Halifax bomber.
About this model
The RAF Elvington control tower is one of more than 5,500 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Each model is written as code from public descriptions, plans, photographs and aerial views used only as references; no image or third-party model is copied into it. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. Rights in the building itself, its name and any brands on it are not granted by Mini Skyline; clear them separately before you sell prints. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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