The Hobby

The Games Workshop Hobby provides hours of enjoyment and a healthy amount of good plain fun! Like all good hobbies it requires specialist knowledge and a commitment to building expertise and relationships with fellow hobbyists.

Collecting

As soon as you buy your first model soldier you’re a collector.  Some hobbyists like owning a wide variety of miniatures to paint and display, but most assemble them into a mighty army of warriors to defeat their friends in tabletop battles. A constant stream of new product releases means there’s always something else for the hobbyist to add to his army.

Painting

Painting miniatures is an intrinsic part of the Games Workshop Hobby. Our hobbyists invest a significant amount of time and effort personalising their models, which goes some way to explain why there is only a relatively small second hand market in our miniatures. Practice makes perfect and many hobbyists become highly skilled painters. By following one of our painting guides even a beginner can produce a miniature he can be proud of.

Modelling

The look of the battlefield is almost as important as the miniatures themselves. Scenery plays a huge part in any tabletop battle game, both tactically and visually. Modelling includes everything from making simple hills, to constructing lavishly detailed centrepieces for commanders to fight battles over.

Gaming

Tabletop gaming can be anything from small scale skirmishes between opposing warbands, to epic conflicts involving huge armies of hundreds of Citadel Miniatures. New gamers can begin playing straight away. Painting miniatures needn’t hold a beginner up. The important thing is to get those troops on the battlefield and start learning. After a few games hobbyists soon want to expand and paint their collection to fight larger and more varied battles.