My name is Brett Green and I was born in Sydney Australia in 1960.
My modelling history would probably sound familiar to many of my generation. I started building Series 1 bagged Airfix kits when I was a youngster. The 1:76 scale tanks with their rubber band tracks were amongst my favourites, but I also recall graduating to exciting new kits from Nichimo and Tamiya in the emerging large scale of 1:35.

Other priorities pushed modelling to the background by the time I was finishing high school. 1979 saw the beginning of a 25 year career in the telecommunications industry where I was fortunate to be part of the introduction of a number of important new voice and data networking technologies.

I was seduced back into the world of plastic models after seeing some beautifully finished kits at a local hobby shop. This was the late 1980s, when Dragon and Gunze burst onto the scene with their sophisticated new releases. A whole new world of tools and technology became more readily available too – airbrushes, motor tools, acrylic paints and more.

By the mid-1990s, Tamiya had again upped the ante with a reinvigorated Military Miniatures series. The Internet started to become accessible to the general public around this time too. It did not take long for modellers to make their presence felt in this online world, so I started contributing armour articles and reviews to the Track-Link website. I was also editing my local IPMS NSW Club magazine, “News and Views”, at the same time.

I launched my own modelling website, HyperScale, in early 1998 and in 2006 I took over the military model website Missing-Lynx from Osprey Publishing.
During this period I have also written a number of books for Eagle Editions, Classic Publications and in the Osprey Modelling series.

With Spud Murphy moving on after three years of stewardship, I was delighted to be offered the role of Editor of Model Military International magazine. It is a pleasure and a privilege to step into a publication that has demonstrated such a consistently high standard.

I would like to thank Spud for all his hard work since Issue 1, and I wish him all the best in his future endeavours.
Please be assured that I will be working hard to maintain the calibre that has been established over the years, and ensuring that the magazine is both informative and entertaining to our readers.

Brett