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You might think that in the age of video games and iPads, miniature gaming would be on the way out. The hobby (or, loosely-connected web of hobbies, I should say) is about as analog as it gets—with thick rulebooks, brick and mortar stores, and real, physical miniatures. And yet, you probably have a hobby shop somewhere in your town where people are pushing around tiny, pewter armies at this very second. They could be at home playing Starcraft right now—what gives? I think miniature gaming survives specifically because it’s so analog. It’s a hobby that celebrates the physicality of things, where a practitioner might spend $50 on a single, intricately detailed model, and a dozen hours of his life painting it with painstaking precision. They like the social scene and the physical space of the game shop.

They might not be earning new converts like they did 30 years ago, but their games and the industries they support have been insulated from the disruption that’s wiped out other hobbies. However, with the rising accessibility of 3D printing--especially for the home--the line between the digital and the physical is getting blurred. Is the delicate economy that keeps the hobby alive ready to collapse?

I don’t think so, but I do think the hobby is on the brink of enormous change. I’ll explain how things got to this point, and where I think they’re going in the future. From Pb to Polymers: A Brief History of Miniature Gaming Wargaming as we know it now began in 1904—the year that well-known science fiction author H.G. Wells published a book called Small Wars: a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys’ games and books. The book described a formal set of rules for simulating a battle using hollow-cast lead toy soldiers and artillery. The book was the first of its type, but didn’t create the modern hobby of miniature gaming whole-cloth—it wasn’t until 1955 that Jack Scruby would start casting the first wargaming-specific miniatures out of type metal, creating the wargaming hobby industry.

Early on, miniature casting switched over to a white metal alloy of equal parts tin and lead, which remained the industry standard until the nineties, along with hard plastic and resin for larger or cheaper miniatures. New avenues for wargaming opened up in the 1970s, when Gary Gygax created Chainmail, a medieval war game which included a fantasy supplement with rules governing magic spells and fantastical creatures. In 1974, Gygax expanded his work on Chainmail into a game called Dungeons & Dragons, with which you might be familiar. D&D was incredibly popular, of course, and the rise of roleplaying games created another market for miniatures, as did the concurrent rise of fantasy wargaming.