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!

Thursday, 29 January 2026

Spanish Civil War Plane Painting

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I was going to try and mix and match some paint shades for the Spanish Civil War Republican aircraft models but found this set of base paint...
Wednesday, 28 January 2026

Spanish Civil War Republican Air Force

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The 1/600th scale models for the Spanish Republican air force have now been assessed and just need magnet basing. This is the line up based ...
Tuesday, 27 January 2026

Algy Dogfight Generator Scenario

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  I tried out Algy's Dastardly Dogfight Mission Generator today and came up with this scenario. Here's the process step by step. I...
Monday, 26 January 2026

We Dive At Dawn First Impressions

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I fancied a break from assembling tiny metal aeroplanes in a freezing garage today, so set up a play through of We Dive At Dawn , the roll a...
Sunday, 25 January 2026

Spanish Civil War Republican Air Force Progress

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A long afternoon spent at the workbench and I'm nearly finished with assembling the 1/600th scale aircraft for the Bag the Hun Spanish ...
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Saturday, 24 January 2026

Winter Hammer Soviets

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The land based wargaming project on the workbench is a solo Winter War platoon level scheme using 6mm figures on a three foot square terrain...

Early War Aircraft for Bag the Hun

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I discovered a fantastic range of 3D printed aircraft for interwar and early war scenarios yesterday, as usual while looking for something c...
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Friday, 23 January 2026

We Dive at Dawn

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David Manley of Long Face Games was kind enough to send me earlier this week, a pre-release copy of his new solitaire pen and dice rules for...
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Thursday, 22 January 2026

Algy's Dastardly Dogfight Game Generator

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I had some time over lunch today to draft out the Algernon Pulls It Off! dogfight scenario generator, so that it's is a bit more user f...

Through the Mud and Blood British Platoon

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I eventually found my stash of Peter Pig WW1 British infantry, after a long and frustrating search in the garage,  shifting loads of boxes o...
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