Richard Windrow, born in 1938, has pursued military hobbies, including modeling, since childhood. He served in the 1st Battalion Queen's Royal Regiment from 1957 to 1959, before becoming an amateur rally driver. He has restored and showed a number of wartime US military vehicles, but has now returned to his first love, 1/35th scale military vehicles and the building of dioramas in which to display them. The author lives in Kent, UK.