Festive Gingerbread Cityscape

You have more than likely built and decorated a gingerbread house around the holidays as a festive tradition. Now let your 3D printer do the decorating! Celebrate the holidays with a fun Gingerbread cityscape kit style model, complete with a myriad a buildings and decorations! All designed with a gingerbread aesthetic!

This is a kit style design, meaning you can print all the parts and then put it all together! A fun project you can do you with your family or friends!

Check out the light show we made with this display! 

Gingerbread City Holiday Light Show! | FULL SHOW | B1G_Jano's 2025 Holiday Project!

PLEASE READ BELOW BEFORE PRINTING!

Part files

All parts are included in the listing, including the .3mf fles on how i broke everything down onto multiple build plates. There is over 40 individual part files to print, which can feel quite daunting. If you have more than one 3D printer, it should be easier to allocate all the files for printing!

All parts, with the exception of some of the base pieces and the central base sidewalk area, can be printed on a printer smaller than 350x350mm. Everything was printed on my Prusa XL, so If you have a Prusa XL, everything will fit on that machine. For parts that wont fit on a machine smaller than 350x350mm, you can split those parts into smaller chunks in your Prusa Slicer or Orca Slicer. 

If you are scaling the parts downward, I recommend scaling the part NO SMALLER THAN 75% as I can't guarantee all of the smaller details will come out clean past that. Please proceed with caution. Tolerances have been dialed in with all parts at current scale, so there is risk if scaled down that tolerances may be affected.

All base pieces have guide pins or designed inset grooves for the parts to fit together easily. I added slightly more tolerance than probably needed but that should accommodate easy fit of the main parts on the base. Each building has a square cutout on its bottom side for it to sit into the square guide pin on the base. Print support in those square openings on affected parts to avoid issues with fitting parts.

All base pieces also have notches that line up with notches in the other base pieces to fit together. These are not a "puzzle piece" friciton fit but rather they slide into each other, more so to prevent the sides from sliding around aimlessly. 

Lastly, almost all parts were designed with a 2 tool Prusa XL, so many of these parts are 2 color models. Feel free to paint the colors in your preferred slicer or if you only have a single color machine, I recommend a 3d printer pen or acrylic paint pens to decorate the parts to your liking afterwards! This is where you can get creative!! Use the 3mf files to see how i painted each part

Filament used in this model: 

Polymaker Starlight Jupiter PLA (for gingerbread style parts)

Polymaker Army Brown Matte PLA (for gingerbread style parts)

Polymaker Cotton White Matte PLA (for frosted detail on all buildings/snow tops on base pieces/billboard)

Polymaker Galaxy Dark Green PLA (for tree/hardware building sign/base colors)

Polymaker Zombiehedgehog Galaxy Red PLA (for tree/base colors/gumdrops/wreath/building atenna/bakery awning/billboard)

Polymaker Marble Limestone PLA (for sidewalks)

Polymaker Metallic Dark Gray PLA Pro (for fountain)

Protopasta Stainless Steel PLA (Also used for fountain, had it lying around and had a bit left to use)

Polyamker HT Black PLA (For snowman buttons/snowman hat)

Printed Solid Golden Winner Glitter PLA (for ribbons on bakery window inserts)

Numakers Light Blue silk PLA (For frozen lake/front left right base pieces)

EPAX Natural Clear PLA (for window inserts)

PRINT SETTINGS (what i used, but feel free to tweak if need be)

Layer height: 0.15-0.2mm (0.15mm was used for all areas with numbers/text/small details) I recommend using 0.2mm layer height for base settings and then using adaptive layer height to account for any small details.

Perimeters: 2-3

Top layers: 5

Bottom Layers: 3

Infill: 15-20% recommended. Cubic or gyroid recommended. 

speed: I used a mix of the .2mm speed and .2mm structural prusa slicer profiles depending on the part. For larger parts, the speed profile is fine. For small parts or details, I recommend structural. 

Supports: minimal supports will be needed on some parts. I only really needed supports on the cafe/hardware/bakery building rectangular door fronts and sign areas, the apartment building door front, the individual roof pieces, the skyscraper door front and the square openings on the buildings with the window inserts. Also, if you print the train station flat on its back, you will need supports on the bottom side of the side staircase as it would sit up in the air a bit.I did not need support on any of the tall model windows or detailed frosted areas, or even on the smaller business building upper windows. Each printer is different, so use supports at your discretion.

FOR ALL MULTI COLOR/TOOL PRINTERS: For best results, please use a purge block or purge between colors, especially anything going from white to dark and vise versa to avoid color bleeding. 

A few additional notes!

• The fountain is 3 pieces: the base, the bath and the topper. The base fits into the larger central base, followed by the bath sitting on top of the flat edge on the elevated center section. Then, take the topper and slide the topper opening into the pin on the base. The bath piece may move around a bit, but as long as the topper is on correctly, it will not fall off. The topper should be free to spin around that pin so do not force it down.

• Some adhesive will be necessary to attach some parts together. I recommend 3DGLOOP or superglue. Please use only small amounts to avoid over gluing or getting adhesive on your self.

• For the bakery building, please assemble the window inserts into place BEFORE adhering the awning to the front. A slight overSight in the design had some issues with fit initially. All is good now but if the awning is applied before the window inserts, you will not be able to fit them in as the awning blocks part of the window insert openings. 

• There are cutouts in the bases for the road pieces and the sidewalks. The cutouts are shared by both and should have enough room for them to fit within the base. Any warping in the base pieces could affect the fit of the roads and sidewalks so use caution (and adhesive and a brim) when printing those parts.

• On the buildings with antennas, I used a filament swap set to stop the print in the slicer to get a 3rd color for the atenna toppers as well as for the bakery building window inserts. If you have a printer with more than 2 color capabilities, ignore this note and paint it in the slicer as normal.

I think that's it. If you enjoy this design and model, please give it a download, and let me know if you print it! I would love to see some makes of this display as well! Please also let me know of any issues or suggestions you may have as I always look to improve my designs!

Stay tuned to my Social media profiles as I attempt to add addressable LED lights to this display and create and audio and light show in a few weeks!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!