Tom Cockle was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1949. He has been modelling for 26 years and has won several awards at US and Canadian model shows. During this time, he has written articles for several magazines including Military Modeler, Military in Scale, Military Modelcraft International, FineScale Modeler, AFV Modeller and Steelmasters. He has written several books for Concord Publications as well as the Sturmgeschutz III Ausf.G Walk Around book for Squadron/Signal Publications