Apollo 15 Moon landing site

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Apollo 15 Landing Site — Hexagon Moon Terrain Art. 

Land at Hadley–Apennine right on your desk! This is the real lunar surface where Apollo 15 touched down, built from NASA elevation data and dropped into a two-tone hexagon frame with the mission name embossed on the edge. 

Key Features

• Real NASA elevation data — the mountains, mare and craters are Apollo 15's actual landing region, not a sculpted texture

• Two-tone hexagon frame — matte black tray, mission name standing 1 mm proud in grey

• 100% support-free design — both plates print flat, no supports anywhere

• 0.12 mm layers — fine enough that the elevation steps read as contour lines instead of print lines

• No glue, no fasteners — the terrain tile drops straight into the frame

• Optimized for matte PLA — matte kills the shine, so the surface reads like regolith instead of plastic

Specifications

• Terrain tile: 150.0 × 129.9 × 14.2 mm

• Frame: 166.2 × 143.9 × 4.0 mm (lettering adds 1 mm on top)

• Assembled footprint: 166.2 × 143.9 mm

• Parts: 2, on 2 plates

Dimensions are at 100% scale — resize in your slicer to fit your needs.

Print Profiles Included

• Plate 1 — Terrain tile: single filament, matte grey. No colour changes at all.

• Plate 2 — Frame + lettering: two filaments, matte black frame with grey "APOLLO 15". 

Recommended Print Settings

• Layer Height: 0.12mm or 0.16mm — this is what the included profile uses, and the terrain detail is the reason

• Supports: None required

• Infill: 15% (Gyroid)

• Wall Loops: 2

• Top / Bottom Layers: 5 / 5

• Nozzle: 0.4 mm — profiled for any FDM printer, the biggest part is 166 mm across

• Material: PLA recommended, matte if you have it

• Colors: matte grey for the terrain, matte black for the frame (that's the combination in the photos)

• Build Plate: textured PEI, brim on

• Clean Print Bed (Crucial): the frame is a wide, flat, thin part. A degreased plate is the difference between a flat frame and one lifted corner you can't unsee.

Assembly

• Print both plates — order doesn't matter.

• Drop the tile in — the terrain seats into the frame recess on its own. No glue needed.

• Want it permanent? A dab of glue in the recess, or an adhesive strip on the back if it's going on a wall.