3D print World War II Aeroplane Hangar, Tocumwal
A free, printable model of Tocumwal's World War II hangar, a long gabled hangar with blocky corners, and the open grassland around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About World War II Aeroplane Hangar, Tocumwal
Tocumwal's hangar, in New South Wales, Australia, within Berrigan Shire, is a heritage-listed building that once served the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as an aircraft hangar. The Allied Works Council built it in 1942 as part of RAAF Station Tocumwal, for housing and servicing B-24 Liberator bombers at McIntyre Field. In 2021 it joined the State Heritage Register of New South Wales.
A design from the Commonwealth Government's Works and Services Branch answered the steel shortage of the war with a local solution: timber. It was adapted for unseasoned hardwoods grown in Australia. Its gable-shaped trusses were built with shear connectors and joints of steel plate. Modified Type 3A hangars like this one have a clear span of 39.6 meters (130 ft).
McIntyre Field was a temporary air force base, built by the Allied Works Council amid fears of invasion. The United States Army Air Force used it, and the RAAF later took over and renamed it Tocumwal Airfield. In 1942 it was the biggest air base in Australia, and in the whole Southern Hemisphere. It was the first designated Liberator training center in the South-West Pacific.
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 | 4 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 5 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 7 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Broad, low gabled roof
- One broad gabled roof covers the whole hangar. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep the ridge crisp, and printing slowly keeps the long surfaces even.
- Blocky corners and bracing lines
- Squared pillars stand at the corners, and thin diagonal lines mark the long walls. A larger print size or Full detail keeps the lines readable.
- One piece with the ground
- World War II Aeroplane Hangar, Tocumwal 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. World War II Aeroplane Hangar, Tocumwal 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
World War II Aeroplane Hangar, Tocumwal 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 World War II Aeroplane Hangar, Tocumwal 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. World War II Aeroplane Hangar, Tocumwal grows with the print: about 4 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.
