I should probably start with my affiliations. I was a very early member of AMPS, the armor, modeling and preservation Society. Shortly after it started, I became the New England/Northeast membership coordinator, helped out at almost all the shows in Maryland until the show started moving around the country. In the 1980s I joined IPMS for a while then lapsed until I rejoined a few years ago - joining IPMS USA and IPMS Canada. Ive been a member of the New Hampshire IPMS club, Granite State Modelers for 20 years or so…10 years ago I also became a member of NMMA, New England Military Modelers Association.

Right… I’ve been a modeller since age 6, when my neighbor gave me a car to build. Those days (the late ‘60’s and 70’s, saw me building everything. My parents joined the modelers club with monogram, where you got a kit a month, And my tools were nail clippers, sandpaper and an X-Acto knife. Brush painted models using Testor’s square bottle paints!

In the 80s, I became a kick collector, and by the late 80s head focused on British subjects alone. I have 2 degrees in British History, and while mainly interested in uniforms, armor and aircraft, I have several ships in the stash. I’ve also collected some sizeable volume of sci-fi and SF3D kits.

I actually started selling models in the 90s as Empire Models, and then reference books as Boomers Books. I sold mostly it shows here in the US and was known for bringing in hard to find kits from Europe as well as detail parts like Grandt Line, nuts, and bolts in MV Lenses.

I took a hiatus, but in the last 12 years have upped my inventory to the line of DSPIAE Tools, as well as focusing on selling British subjects for models and continuing with the reference books.

I collect British militaria from all eras, my model collection has grown exponentially. I recently started taking an evaluation and slowly whittling down that collection to a more manageable size. That probably means only 2000 models and figures instead of much higher number!

Since Covid my building has increased, and our local IPMS club, Granite State Modelers, started Zoom build sessions to help people connect during Covid. We still do that three days a week, and anyone is invited! We even zoom our monthly meeting so members who can’t get there can tune in.

I’ve been published in the British Military Modelling, modeling magazine three times, recently did a chapter for a book coming out from Pen and Sword
entitled British and Commonwealth WW2 Model Making.