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

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...

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....

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...

The first iteration of the model is compete and it's time to start printing... Unfortunately my printer is has broken under the strain of...

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...

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...

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...