About this collection
STL Files
This collection is for people with their own printer: our designs as digital files, ready to slice and print at home. You buy the model once and print it as many times as your own shelf needs — the licence terms on each listing say exactly what is and is not allowed.
They are prepared by people who print for a living: sensible orientation, tested geometry, no surprises half a spool in. Each product page lists what the download contains and any printing notes worth knowing before you start.
Files are delivered digitally, so there is no shipping, no courier and no parcel at all.
Two honest slicing notes before your first print: check each file's notes for the intended orientation before trusting auto-orient, and run the small test piece first when a listing includes one — ten minutes of test print has saved more spools than any slicer setting ever will. If your printer and our geometry disagree anyway, that is what the next paragraph is for.
If you print one of our models and something about the file fights your printer, write to us. We would rather fix a file than know it is failing quietly on someone's print bed.
One example of what lives here: a vintage pantry for a 1:12 dollhouse, sold as STL files — groceries and food packaging, the small things that make a miniature kitchen look stocked rather than staged. Once printed they fill a pantry shelf, and they sit naturally beside the jars and tableware in our 1:12 accessories collection.
The files are prepared for resin (SLA) or PLA filament, at layer heights between 0.05 and 0.12 mm, with supports placed to suit the orientation noted in each file. Resin holds the finest detail; a well-tuned FDM printer is perfectly adequate for pieces you plan to paint. Keep the arithmetic of the scale in mind as well: at 1:12 a 30 cm item on a real shelf becomes 2.5 cm on yours, so packaging this small rewards the thinnest layer your printer can manage.
The licence is a personal home-print one: print the files for your own houses and shelves, within the terms written on each listing. Whatever comes off your printer is a collectible for ages 14 and up rather than a toy, and it will contain small parts, so store finished pieces accordingly. If you would rather someone else did the printing, our custom printing calculator accepts STL and OBJ files and prices them as you adjust the settings.
The pantry pack earns its keep inside furniture: printed groceries can fill the cabinets and the worktop of a 1:12 kitchen set, stand on a pantry shelf beside our jars, or crowd a market stall in a diorama. Painting packaging this small is mostly about restraint — a light primer, flat base colours, then one or two label colours picked out with the finest brush you own, and a thin coat of matt varnish to keep fingerprints off the tiny labels whenever the pantry gets rearranged. Remember too that a print's safety depends on the material it is printed in: follow the handling instructions of your resin or filament, wear gloves around uncured resin, and treat the finished pieces like any other collectible with small parts.