3D print the Tower of London
A free, printable model of the White Tower at the Tower of London and the lawns, walls and streets around it beside the Thames, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Tower of London
The Tower of London is a castle and citadel on the River Thames's north bank in London, England, in the borough of Tower Hamlets. Its origins go back to the end of 1066 and the Norman Conquest. William the Conqueror built the White Tower, the keep that gives the castle its name, in 1078. The complex has several buildings inside two concentric rings of defensive walls, with a moat. Edward I finished rebuilding it in 1285, and the general layout has stayed the same since.
Over the centuries it has served as an armory, a treasury, a menagerie, a mint, a record office and a home for the Crown Jewels of England. It was used most heavily as a prison in the 16th and 17th centuries, holding people who had fallen out of favor, among them Elizabeth I before she became queen and Sir Walter Raleigh. The phrase sent to the Tower comes from that use. Monarchs also spent several nights here before leading a procession to Westminster Abbey for their coronation, a custom from the early 14th century to Charles II's time.
The White Tower measures 36 m by 32 m (118 ft by 105 ft) at its base, not counting the projecting corner towers, and reaches 27 m (90 ft) at the southern battlements. It is built mainly of Kentish ragstone, with Caen stone originally used for details in the facing. After damage from the Blitz was repaired, the castle reopened to the public. The charity Historic Royal Palaces cares for it, and it is a World Heritage Site.
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 | 10 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 13 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 16 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Corner turrets and battlements
- Four small turrets with pointed caps sit at the corners, and the roofline carries a row of battlements. Print friendly adapts these small parts to the print scale; Full detail keeps them for a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- Shallow arches in the walls
- The walls carry shallow arch outlines and narrow windows. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep them readable, and a bigger print size gives them more depth to catch the light.
- One piece with the ground
- The Tower of London 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 Tower of London 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 Tower of London 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 Tower of London 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 Tower of London grows with the print: about 10 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.
