Models and modelmaking

This title provides a delightful, entertaining, and illuminating investigation into our peculiar fascination with making things small, and what small things tell us about the world at large. Simon Garfield reveals the secret histories of tiny Eiffel Towers, the truth about the flea circus, a doll...

Written by renowned modelling expert and TV visual effects designer Mat Irvine - perhaps best-known for his work as Visual Effects Designer for Dr. Who and Blake's 7 during the 1970s and 1980s, and particularly his work on the K9 mechanical dog from Dr. Who, and the Blake's 7 spacecraft Liberator...

Although the rise in computerized wargaming has transformed some aspects of the hobby, the traditional table-based wargame continues to go from strength to strength. Thomas offers advice on how to collect and paint wargames armies, together with the information and rules needed to fight wargames ...