Jim's Wargames Workbench

Welcome to my blog. I have upwards of 100 projects in various stages of incompletion or total abandonment, so you may well find something of interest if you rummage about a bit. I concentrate on solo air and naval wargaming but other 'skirmishy' things quite often pop up out of nowhere, only to disappear again after something else grabs my attention. I even finish the occasional project now and again!

Monday, 4 May 2026

May the Fourth Be With You

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Haven't played X-Wing in ages....gave my collection to the sprog, who is now living back home with us, so should really dig it out for s...
Sunday, 3 May 2026

Chilean Pre-dreadnought Painting Progress

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Some decent progress on the blocking in today, with the matt white basecoat applied to the models, ready for a Vallejo Medium Fleshtone top ...

Strafing in Algernon Pulls It Off!

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I've been farting about with some ideas for strafing in Algy , as it is conspicuously absent from the rules yet very much an aspect of a...
Saturday, 2 May 2026

Algernon Pulls It Off! Facebook Four Hundred

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After a little over one year, the Algernon Pulls It Off! Facebook group has hit the four hundred member mark, which is quite an impressive ...

1/600th WW1 Tumbling Dice French Aircraft

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As Paul Sulley put a lot of time and effort into expanding the 1/600th scale French range, it is only fair that I order some of the models a...
Wednesday, 29 April 2026

Renaissance Naval Windfall

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I spotted this lot on eBay a couple of days ago and put in a speculative bid. Lo and behold, I now have fifty quids worth of 1/2400th scale ...
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Tuesday, 28 April 2026

Blanco Encalada

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Blanco Encalada  Blanco Encalada Yoshino As part of my Chilean Pre-dreadnought fleet expansion, as it is a bit under equipped, I'm going...
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Monday, 27 April 2026

Chilean Pre-dreadnought Progress

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I've re-booted the South American pre-dreadnought project today with the Chilean 'What If?' battleships, Libertad and Constituci...
Sunday, 26 April 2026

Tying Up Some Nautical Loose Ends

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I was on a long road trip yesterday down to Plymouth and back, so had time to reflect on my lack of progress this far this year. I've st...
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Friday, 24 April 2026

Baer's Really Bad Day

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  I unearthed a scenario that I wrote fur the Rabens Ravens Lard Mag article today, one that didn't make it into the selection as I didn...
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