One human landmark stands or” flies” above the rest, the international space station or ISS. Being one of the greatest human achievements that can be spotted in the night sky many times during the day. This model attempts to symbolize this by having the ISS flying above some of the famous landmarks from some continents.

The complete model consists of 2 main parts:

• The plate with different landmarks, “rivers” and an arm for hanging the ISS
• The ISS model that further consist of 4 parts.

The entire assembly requires only a m2 or m3 nut and screw.

Important information:

!!!ALL MY PRINTS FOR THE ISS IS DONE AT 70% SCALE FOR THE m2 FASTNING!!!

My design of the ISS is based on the model found on NASA’s website for reference:

https://science.nasa.gov/resource/international-space-station-3d-model/

The design has been heavily simplified and has been made as easy to print as possible but will still require some support for some of the parts. All the tests performed by me has been in single color PLA, especially the solar cell “wings” can be tricky, but adding brim helped me a lot.

All the ISS parts are very fragile, even after thickening them all I could without ruining the design.

The landmarks on the plate are:

• Great wall of China – Asia
• The pyramids – Africa
• Big Ben – Europe
• One World Trade Center – North America
• Chichen Itza – Also North America….

Parts:

• M2 or M3 screw at least M2 : 22mm, M3 : 16mm.
• M2 or M3 nut

Printables:

• ISS (print at 70% size for M2.)
  • 1x Centerv2 – 0.12mm – supports needed
  • 1x issbottom_easyprint - 0.12mm (fine) - supports needed
  • 1x solar wing – 0.12mm (fine) – no supports – brim recommended
  • 1x (mirrored) solar wing – 0.12mm l (fine) – no supports – brim recommende
• Plate
  • 1x world_landmarks_with_iss_pillar - 0.20mm
  • 1x iss_hangar (long or short) - 0.20mm

Assembly:

• Insert the nut into it corresponding hole in the iss_hanger
• Put the screw through the hole of the Centerv2 and issbottom_easyprint and screw it into the nut.
• Attach the solar wings as you see fit, it’s a press fit… get it?..
• Finaly slot the iss_hangar into the slot of the large pillar behind the Great wall of China.

The full assembled ISS is also included but print at your own risk, there is A LOT of supports needed, I havent tried printing it, so good luck if you decide to try.

If you have a long enough screw you can hang the ISS from the hangar instead.

I might create a version with space for LED inserts or just upload the plate itself without the large pillar.

updates:

• better Great Wall of China
• easier print of pillar