3D print the Weeksville Steel Dirigible Hangar
A free, printable model of the Weeksville Steel Dirigible Hangar, a vast curved steel barrel with rounded ends and two rooftop control towers, among surrounding buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 15 mm
- Scale
- 1:4,688
15 mm tall on a 160 mm print
Make this print opens the generator on a 750 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Orange-peel end doors
Rounded orange-peel doors with raised perimeter rims close both ends of the barrel. Print friendly adapts the narrow rims; Full detail and a larger print keep the door seams and rims clean.
- Rooftop towers and aerials
Two small control towers with projecting cabs and thin aerials rise from the crown. Use 0.12–0.16 mm layers and print slowly so these tall, slender parts stay crisp.
- One piece with the ground
The Weeksville Steel Dirigible Hangar 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 Weeksville Steel Dirigible Hangar 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 Weeksville Steel Dirigible Hangar
The Weeksville steel hangar was one of only two large steel hangars built; work at South Weymouth and Weeksville started in 1941. Weeksville was the second new station serving the Cape Hatteras area, and construction there began in October, one of the only new stations begun before Pearl Harbor. The hangar rested on piles, and its steel arch members were raised with false-work and two large derricks mounted on travelers. Luther Lashmit was the architect, and the building dates from 1941–1942.
TCOM says the 1,000-foot-long hangar handles nearly all manufacturing and testing for its aerostat balloon line. Its orange-peel doors hinge at the hangar peak and run on rails, moved by built-in electric trucks. A timber hangar was also built. The hangar stands at 190 TCOM Drive in Elizabeth City.
About this model
The Weeksville Steel Dirigible Hangar is one of more than 4,400 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.
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