A downloadable Map/Skybox Prop/Brush

I have merged 3 iconic European monuments into something that many would enjoy. It is the "4-SIDE Eiffel Tower Bud Vase" by MakeALot on Thingiverse, as the body "The Monument", also by him, as part of Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower's roof, and his "Solid Big Ben" also by him as the clock face.

Back in the day when I first made the model at 12yo (I'm presently 19), I wrote this on the olden Thingiverse page for it.


I made this model on December 5, 2014 before the movie Big Hero 6 came out in my local "cheap theatre" (It plays movies just before their DVD release dates), and before I had seen it or a trailer for it. The movie featured a San Francisco/ Tokyo hybrid city, with an Asian Gate/ Torii-inspired Golden Gate Bridge. I technically had created the joke in a different form (my version is Paris and London, while their version is Tokyo and San Francisco) before I knew of the film's existence aka I made the joke before they did in some case???.



I since had to do many fixes to it, and it was a roller-coaster. Importing it into your games like in the screenshots (Garry's Mod with Australium texture) from this fully-printable form is trivial to do. I plan on selling physical representations of this model as merch at some point and I ultimately aim for this model to be made into the same types of products as the original buildings. It's a lucrative design, and it is uploaded to itch.io so that you can use it in your skyboxes and maps. In theory I could make this a donate-if-you-want entry, but I won't paywall the model file, nor will I ever bother to stop you printing it out on your own 3D printers.

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Eiffel Tower + Big Ben + London Monument Mashup 14 MB

Install instructions

You will need to apply a gold texture or shader or material onto this at the bare minimum (if you do this you have no need to worry about UVs. [The Eiffel Tower was painted gold for the 2022 Paris Olympics to honor the original intent for it to be gold, and recently Big Ben received significant gold painting for a very similar reason that has nothing to do with the Olympics. The London Monument top is golden, and the part of the London Monument visible in this model IS the top, so using a simple gold texture or material or shader with it is not outlandish, AND it means you have absolutely nothing to worry about regarding UVs.]), and potentially simplify depending on engine.

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