The company has 523 shops worldwide, where fans can learn to create and paint models, or play the game.Ĭollectors build large forces of miniature plastic gaming models, which can cost more than £100 each. The first Games Workshop store opened in Hammersmith in 1978 and began producing miniature wargaming models before, in 1983, creating Warhammer, which stages bloodthirsty battles between orcs and elves.įrom those updated toy “soldiers” based on a mix of science-fiction and the fantasy world of elves and orcs, Warhammer is now a global brand behind books, video games, a magazine, animations and a planned TV show.
They found their feet when the American creator of Dungeons & Dragons asked them to become the role playing game’s first UK distributor. The company was founded more than four decades ago when friends John Peake, Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson began making their own wooden board games and creating a gaming newsletter.
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