Filmdeg Miniatures is a YouTube channel dedicated to recording interviews with key figures from the 1970s-2000s British wargaming and hobby scene. Notably, they have interviewed John Blanche, who defined the design and art language of the various Warhammer lines; Tuomas Pirinen, designer of Mordheim; and Trish Carden, designer of many iconic miniatures. Filmdeg Miniatures is swiftly amounting to an invaluable oral history of the hobby.

Johnson created Blood Bowl, and co-created games like Necromunda and Epic 40,000. He is one of the most recognizable and beloved White Dwarf writers, whose J-Files articles cultivated a hobby community. He won an Origin Award for Best Miniature Rules. Recently, he has worked on Valour & Fortitude, Black Powder Epic Battles’ Waterloo Campaign, and the forthcoming Heroes of Might and Magic: Battles. At Games Workshop, he kickstarted tournaments—with a focus on friendliness and all aspects of the hobby—and global campaigns.

“It was a worthwhile thing to do,” Johnson said of his time writing the J-Files in White Dwarf, “because it started to talk about things to do with the hobby that couldn’t really be addressed anywhere else. I think if I look around the hobby at the moment, one of the things I think is a little bit sad is that there aren’t more things like that going on. Rather than doing a battle report, doing ‘Here’s how to win with this army’ or something like that, if they talked about something like a gamer’s love-hate relationship with dice, or how to cope with losing games, or the social contract that goes on there. All different kind of aspects of the hobby.”

You can watch the full interview on YouTube.

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