As early as I can remember I've always been into some form of model making. Whether it was making an Airfix kit or building the latest Blue Peter hospital beds for my six action men. As a child I was fuelled by thunderbirds, captain scarlet and Joe 90 and my uncle with his Hornsby trains and that's something I've never owned or got into.

When I moved to Northumberland as a child, is when I came into contact with 15mm Napoleonic Figures at school. Years later I joined the army where I came across a colour Sergeant painting orcs from games workshop back in the 80’s from there on I was hooked.

I like to do a lot of research before I begin any project, starting with the scale figure first, then following some few golden rules, what I mean is you have to combine the figure with the model terrain your making.

I prefer to use AutoCAD to build 3D models. This technique helps me see how the model fits together with the scale of the figure and the materials I use. This then enables me to make any alterations before I start the actual modelling, there’s an old saying “always measure twice - cut once".

My main expertise lies in timber framing and miniature hand thatching in all scales. At some point in the future I will be putting lessons on miniature thatching on YouTube.

I’m not a gamer of such I very seldom get the time to play any games because most of my time is taking up making terrain. I've never been in the right place and if I was it was short lived. I here you say “why do it”, well that’s easy I love it, you could say that this is the type of wargaming I do knowing that somewhere in the world someone is using my terrain to battle over.