This project began back in March when the world and the UK where I live was thrown into COVID-19 lockdown.

On more than a few occasions I have wanted to build the internal structure of my models in a similar way to the Vickers Wellington bomber.

Several years ago, my day job was flying corporate jets around. For a few years I sat in the left hand seat of a Learjet 45. It was a gl...

I have recently shared a few new or ongoing projects and I thought I would share another. I started this one back in December. It took a ...

With the easing of the UK lockdown restrictions I had an opportunity to try and take the Skymaster for its maiden flight. I had some conc...

Ever get an idea and feel so excited about it that you simply have to stop what you're doing and flesh it out a bit? This often happens t...

With the Cessna 337 finished but lockdown continuing its time for a new project. I have a couple of other projects going on in the backgr...

After a frantic start where I could achieve a lot in a short space of time the design process slowed to a halt due to running out of PLA....

Making Test Parts and Some Early Print Troubles

The tiny part for my printer I needed finally arrived and I have set off on the first print of our prototype. I started with the aft firew...

Ever since I was a kid with a window seat I have been fascinated but the mechanical goings on of the wings. Even now as an airline pilot,...

Ok, my printer is still broken, despite attempting a short-term epoxy fix. My replacement parts are still are not here but due in the nex...

We are nearly there. It's almost time to start printing our aeroplane. One of the reasons I enjoy modelling, be it with a 3D printer and ...

Today is time to add in some elevator controls. Although it's always worth leaving this kind of thing until the majority of the modelling...

I have built the cooling scoop for the aft engine and also made some extrude cuts in the fwd firewall to allow some cooling air into the ...

This part of the design is a bit tedious I'm afraid. We need to section the boom into parts that can be printed. The screen cast is aroun...

In the last post of this week I have sectioned the fuselage. You can follow along with the screen cast to see how I have gone about it an...

I'm going to start sectioning the fuselage. I’ll start with the motor mounts, known sometimes as firewalls (so named because in a real ae...

A few final things to do before we are ready to mirror the left side of the model. First, since there will be a servo in each wing for th...

There are so many different ways to create hinges for the control surfaces. Some of them are obviously better than others. I guess the co...