Once known for its lacemaking factories, Nottingham has reinvented itself as a centre of role-playing games. Games Workshop – maker of Warhammer 40,000 – is a multibillion-pound behemoth, and it sustains a whole ecosystem.

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Design Master Yoel Mazur builds LEGO City racers as he tells Blocks Editor Graham E. Hancock how being persistent led to his dream role, what it is like to create new elements every day and the advantages that come with making concept models