Just for fun

Chess sets and backgammon boards are a familiar sight on drawing-room tables, but one expert Highland woodworker is refashioning their forms in beautiful new ways, writes Mary Miers

For my entire lifetime, the undisputed titan of miniatures wargaming has been Games Workshop. Its key titles Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 involve tabletops filled with tiny plastic warriors; specifi

There’s been a glut of popular media featuring fight-to-the-death style scenarios in recent years. Alice in Borderland, The Hunger Games, Squid Game – stories of normal people being thrust into life-o

Wargaming as a genre can seem inaccessible. The need for miniatures, the dense rulesets, the never-ending expansions that add to an already complex world – it’s all just too much for many potential pl

For miniature gamers of a certain age, it’s likely their first experience of miniature gaming was receiving a copy of HeroQuest under the Christmas tree in the early 1990s. HeroQuest’s thrilling tale

Rob Jenkins on making side-saddles, and balancing antique with innovation