About Me

I’m a Radio Control plane, FPV and all things CNC enthusiast. This is where I share my projects. Some have taken me nearly 3 years to complete, like the Vickers Super VC-10 airliner, others have been a bit quicker. I enjoy building my own airplanes, drone or multi-copters which has taken me down the CNC path. My first CNC machine was a Hot Wire CNC foam cutter.

Inspiration

I got inspired to build my Hot Wire CNC machine after making many foam templates for my VC-10 airliner. Since then I’ve built an OX CNC Router and am now on my second 3d-printer. I managed to retire early from work which has allowed me to spend more time doing the things I enjoy.

I started out as a motor mechanic and drifted into IT which may sound like a strange path to take but has proved a very interesting one. Let me try and explain. You need good analytical skills as a motor mechanic to diagnose problems and that works equally as well in IT.

Projects

My projects have included Vickers Super VC10 depron airliner, Avro Lancaster Bomber, CNC hot wire foam cutter. I built CNC foam Hawker Hurricane using Profili2 Pro and DevFus software to generate the g-code. This was my first CNC project using the foam cutter for the fuselage. The OX CNC Router from OpenBuilds design supplied by Ooznest has been a great addition to my CNC tools but I seem to be using my Creality CR10-V2 more and more now.

The last couple of years have been focused on the CNC foam cutter on this site. I made a new design and then updated the Arduino firmware for it. The CNC controller software has been extensively rewritten over several releases and will only have bug fixes now if there are any.

I’m also a motorcycle fan and managed to achieve one of my bucket list items in 2014. I visited the Isle of Man for the Isle of Man Senior TT.

I’ve created this site to share some of my builds and video’s and give something back as I’ve had some great help and advice from the internet community.

Photography

I’ve become a keen photographer which was probably the result of this website.

One thing I quickly noticed when creating content was that my pictures were quite poor and so I decided to get a Digital SLR camera to improve them. Well, the pictures weren’t much better; the problem was me and I didn’t really understand photography or how to use my Digital SLR camera.

One of my lifelong ambitions was to go to the Isle of Man TT races and in 2014 I finally made it and was blown away by the spectacle. But before going I needed to learn how to use my Digital SLR camera. We booked the trip almost 12 months in advance, so I had time, no excuses. Read more here

So what’s next?

I have several airplanes on my wish list to build as most RC modellers do. The T45 Goshawk being one of them. I have made one already but made a few mistakes in the design, it only flew for about 30 seconds.

Generating g-code for the foam cutter can be challenging so I’ve worked out a way to use Fusion 360. This will be for parallel cuts only, which is still quite useful. Details here

Thanks for taking the time to read about me if you have any questions then just drop me line through the contact page.