Teen starts 3D printing business at 15, now earns £17,000 yearly from models

A teenage 3D printing business that began with skyscraper models has grown into a small enterprise earning about £17,000 a year. Reece, a 17-year-old from Worksop in Nottinghamshire, launched the venture at 15, and today his products reach customers across the United Kingdom and overseas. He now runs four printers at home, day and night, to keep up with orders, and his promotional work has made him well known locally. For a teenager who is still in education, that makes the enterprise remarkably well established, turning a personal passion into paid work with real customers and a varied product range.A printer from his family and a love of skyscrapers set the business in motion at 15Reece told the BBC that his family gave him a printer to support his love of model skyscrapers, an interest he has had for a few years. His idea was simple, print models of tall buildings so that he could compare their sizes. His favourite buildings are the Burj Khalifa and The Shard.Selling came soon after. He began to sell his work so that he could afford better printing equipment. As sales grew, he started to move away from skyscrapers to concentrate on improving his 3D printing skills.Hearing aid ac...