Where to Find Free Printable Buildings

This series of 1:144 printable houses has everything from a cemetery to a vampire castle. You can combine these buildings with the traditional glitter village buildings to make an even larger Halloween village.

Several traditional style glitter or coconut houses (sometimes called Putz houses) can be made in miniature for scale villages, as Christmas tree decorations, or for special gift boxes or table favors. The sets of printable buildings include:

• Traditional Houses

• City Halls, Castles, ​and Towers
• Church and Bungalows
• Garage and Store

There are also a set of Miniature Halloween buildings in this glitter house style. All of these little buildings can be made with or without glitter.

1:144 (N scale or micro mini enthusiasts) have the choice of several scale miniatures of real buildings, some finished interiors that can be decorated. These are all made from photographs of real buildings. There are

• a set of three village shops
• a 1780's house
• The Store Street Emporium and Castle Hill House
• Village Church
• Printable Miniature Bank

The Online Theatre Collections of the V&A museum in London has two antique paper toys available from downloadable files.

One is a revolving circus, which could be scaled to at least 1:48 scale, with O scale train figures substituted for the circus animals and made into a carousel.

The second featured toy is an antique toy theater, originally published by Pollocks Toys complete with figures for a Cinderella pantomime. The Theatre is designed to be colored, so there is lots of scope for turning it into a dolls house scale toy, or the front stage of a model building.

All Gauge Trains have two separate sections of their website devoted to printable scale buildings. For N to G scales, they have a New England Seaside town, Yule City buildings suitable for a Christmas railroad, a Western Town, Farm and Country buildings, and industrial buildings.

They also have a range of O, O27 and S scale buildings in basic styles.

ScaleScenes specialize in printable railroad buildings.

Fiddler's Green, famous for their airplane models, also produces scale models for an English village and a Frontier Town. The models are sold for a reasonable price and can be downloaded and used multiple times. They are available singly or in collections.

Zippy's Models have free printable models of a British watermill, a Stone Age Hut, and an English Timber Framed cottage in OO or HO Scale.

Ray Keim's Paper Model Purgatory pages contain free detailed printable models of Disney's Haunted Mansion Rides, including Liberty Square and New Orlean's Square approximately 1:66 scale. There are also details for entrance gates, tombstones, coffins, and the tower from Pirates of the Caribbean The buildings can be resized to be made in several different scales.

Paper Toys produce free printable miniatures of several famous buildings, including the Chrysler Building, the Eiffel Tower, Dubai clock tower, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Neuschwanstein castle, and Frank Lloyd Wright 's Falling Water. These are not listed at any particular scale.

Shadowulf's western town is designed for 25-28 mm scale wargaming. This isn't the same as the old Shadowolf set from Australia but has a lot of similarities. There isn't much information about this set, but it appears you can either print the buildings yourself from the 'download original' link visible when you click on a building, or you can order them as printed buildings or sets.

Canon Creative Park is the motherload of free printable miniatures. Their Buildings of the World section has everything from famous Japanese Temples to the Roman Colosseum and Mont Saint Michel. The seasonal section contains a complete Santa Claus House.

This page contains free downloadable kits for paper models of a plains tipi, an Iroquois longhouse, a set of various styles of houses from prehistoric Ohio, and a Northwest Coast Cedar House.

Crechemania has a number of free downloads for paper creches and Nativity scenes To find them on their site, do a search for free downloads, or search their downloadable creches for the free versions. The free Svetava Creche #5 includes a full Nativity to print and assemble from three letter-sized sheets of paper.