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Title: Whats on your wall?
Post by: Silent bob on 16 August 2020, 11:49:19 AM
As gamers post photographs of their games in various forums – in the background is normally print of  a famous battle.....so what is the focal point of your games room/living room/study?....

No need to wax lyrical....mine is Fripps ‘Isandlwana’.......
Title: Re: Whats on your wall?
Post by: Cubs on 16 August 2020, 12:18:12 PM
I have that Fripps painting on the landing, along with a bunch of original 'London Illustrated News' Zulu War prints (they're not that expensive to buy to be honest). In the painting studio there are some WW2 British propaganda prints (not original) of the 'Dig for Victory' and 'Keep Mum, She's Not So Dumb' variety. But most of the walls have now been covered by my daughter's drawings over the years. 
Title: Re: Whats on your wall?
Post by: gweirda on 16 August 2020, 12:37:25 PM
In the gaming area:

(https://brawlfactory.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/gameroom.jpg?resize=219%2C219)

At the painting/workbench nook:

(https://brawlfactory.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/workarea.jpg?resize=219%2C219)
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Post by: Mad Lord Snapcase on 16 August 2020, 01:47:20 PM
The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras by Elizabeth Thompson

London Illustrated News drawing of Garnet Wolseley

Hero of Trafalgar by W. H. Overrend

Scotland Forever by Lady Butler

Last Stand of the 44th by W. B. Wollen

The Thin Red Line by Robert Gibb

The Defence of Rorke's Drift by Alphonse de Neuville

The Last Farewell by Keith Woodcock

All the classics, really.
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Post by: majorsmith on 16 August 2020, 03:06:10 PM
In the process of getting my gaming room up and running, but these two will be going up!
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Post by: OSHIROmodels on 16 August 2020, 03:08:19 PM
Nothing. Too many shelves.
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Post by: FierceKitty on 16 August 2020, 03:10:45 PM
I display Japanese woodblock prints in the bedroom and sitting room on a rotating basis; numerous battle pix. But I game in a different part of the house.
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Post by: has.been on 16 August 2020, 03:35:14 PM
Like Oshiro, too many shelves.
However I hope (if clear out continues apace)to free up some wall space.
The dream would be to display something linked to that weeks game, be
it flag or picture.
Title: Re: Whats on your wall?
Post by: Ray Rivers on 16 August 2020, 03:54:08 PM
A painting of a naked lady drying herself after a bath.  :)

A painting of the sea.

A painting of my wife when she was young.  ;D

The place is packed with paintings and looks like an art museum. Most of them I would like to throw but they belong to my wife... so there you go.
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Post by: VSF Gamer on 16 August 2020, 04:35:22 PM
I have various nation's naval flags, display swords, pith helmets, (white & kaki), a WW1 German helmet, and posters and pictures.
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Post by: Sinewgrab on 16 August 2020, 04:37:45 PM
Quote from: Ray Rivers on 16 August 2020, 03:54:08 PM
A painting of a naked lady drying herself after a bath.  :)

A painting of the sea.

A painting of my wife when she was young.  ;D


Are these all the same picture?   ;D

Myself, I have too many shelves to hang pictures, though I do have the heraldic banner from when I was in a medieval reenactment group that I made myself on the wall - I pin all of my miniature/gaming awards to it now.
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Post by: Ray Rivers on 16 August 2020, 04:52:30 PM
Quote from: Sinewgrab on 16 August 2020, 04:37:45 PM
Are these all the same picture?   ;D

I wish...

From my painting area I can also see...

- A painting of a woman in traditional Spanish dress glancing at a mirror

- A mounted Spaniard conversing with a few other folks standing on the ground

- A girl picking flowers

- A lady with an umbrella

Like I say, I live in an art museum.  o_o

There is also this one, a painting of cavalrymen fighting. Here is a poor picture of it due to the lighting, but I haven't a clue what it depicts:

(https://i.imgur.com/P4tB4rX.jpg)

Anybody have a clue? Spanish Civil War?
Title: Re: Whats on your wall?
Post by: tin shed gamer on 16 August 2020, 05:43:20 PM
Silent Bob,
I work in a leaky old caravan. There's alway weird stuff on the walls often it's technically alive..
I did a workbench thread back in March ' Concept sketches from my notebooks.' Which had few pictures of my workshop walls.
 Like this one.
The News paper is on the wall going up the stairs (the Mrs bought that . other than the gun cabinet it's only militaria in the house.)
Title: Re: Whats on your wall?
Post by: Bearwoodman on 16 August 2020, 06:35:30 PM
I have this:
(https://myalbum.com/photo/ndu8wsdj2JsN/360.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on your wall?
Post by: FramFramson on 16 August 2020, 08:18:09 PM
Quote from: Cubs on 16 August 2020, 12:18:12 PM
'Keep Mum, She's Not So Dumb'
I always read this the other way without the image.  ;) :D lol
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Post by: syrinx0 on 16 August 2020, 09:54:56 PM
A mounted LOTR map from the ICE game long ago, a Cthulhu cultist painting, three pointillism black & white prints of USAF aircraft from a Major I worked with back in the late 80's.  There are no blank walls or spaces over the desks and shelving units to add more.
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Post by: Sir_Theo on 16 August 2020, 11:33:44 PM
Nothing at present but once I have finally sorted my spacious I have a (signed) portrait of Admiral Beatty that my dad saved from destruction at a school he worked at a long time ago.

Ive always fancied getting a John Blanche print as well.
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Post by: Onebigriver on 16 August 2020, 11:42:50 PM
Splashes of paint, much to my wife's delight (I paint in a corner of the front room), interspersed with our offspring's works of art.
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Post by: Dan55 on 17 August 2020, 03:12:13 AM
A couple of home made banners from long ago when the club (sadly now gone) was playing a huge Baron's Wars campaign.
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Post by: Rick F on 17 August 2020, 12:54:54 PM
The two views of Hougomont by Chris Collingwood are the main pictures, with random military ones around the rest of the shed.
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Post by: Mindenbrush on 17 August 2020, 01:21:52 PM
Mine is somewhat different, I have the whole basement which is split into two areas.
Nearest the stairs and additional storeroom, I have a Liverpool FC flag behind my painting desk and beside the bookcase I have pictures of my son on his various deployments plus a list of those 18 deployments in 13 years.
In the gaming area I have some battle flags and national flags on the walls.

I keep meaning to get some battle scenes but am wary of gaming friends bumping into them.
Title: Re: Whats on your wall?
Post by: Emir of Askaristan on 17 August 2020, 11:44:14 PM
Nothing gamey. It's where I relax in a comfy chair with some good music and single malts too.

Walls - Pete McKee rockers print, two Robert Plant tour poster prints.
Title: Re: Whats on your wall?
Post by: Padrissimus on 18 August 2020, 01:31:57 PM
Wall? What wall? I suppose there is a wall behind all this stuff, but as to what is 'on' it, who knows?

(https://i.imgur.com/67xp9z8.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on your wall?
Post by: has.been on 18 August 2020, 05:28:38 PM
Padrissimus, that is very much like my room, only mine
isn't as neat & tidy as that.
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Post by: Eric the Shed on 18 August 2020, 05:45:44 PM
Heres my man cave....

on the main wall I have three frames of my old mans cigarette card collections - Regimental badges, Colonial uniforms and British Army through the Ages

(https://i.imgur.com/9H32el0.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/tMiK8cp.jpg)

On the far wall we have a picture of Waterloo, and some prints from the Zulu War, Assegais adorn the window frames and a couple of pith helmets in the rafters.

In the eaves of the main game room I have a fake martini henry

(https://i.imgur.com/tOwfPEs.jpg)

on the outside walls I have my pub sign

(https://i.imgur.com/qd3McGT.jpg)

which is reversible

(https://i.imgur.com/lLud7Oy.jpg)

The rest is shelving.

Should add that its taken 20 years to get to this point...
Title: Re: Whats on your wall?
Post by: AKULA on 18 August 2020, 06:22:44 PM
“Daybreak of destiny” - attack on Pearl Harbour, from a trip to Hawaii

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/hh72/AKULADEEP/B379DBC8_91D9_47AB_90B9_8CC4E803FBFA.jpeg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/hh72/AKULADEEP/9C2391ED_8ED7_4CE4_A3C5_878FBD554E52.jpeg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/hh72/AKULADEEP/A634FCDA_DAF3_4AAD_BD30_1DE23455A343.jpeg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/hh72/AKULADEEP/D7A18F25_5071_4A96_99D6_F3FB9B839872.jpeg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/hh72/AKULADEEP/E4A8806B_DC3F_4CBF_AFB4_F7D08049ECE5.jpeg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/hh72/AKULADEEP/ABC1CB9A_D8AE_488A_88C2_F19A57A90079.jpeg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)

The Uzi, AK, Nagant Carbine, Pulse Rifle, and axes are all legal before anyone phones crime stoppers  ;)

Title: Re: Whats on your wall?
Post by: Eric the Shed on 18 August 2020, 07:23:29 PM
very cool room
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Post by: armchairgeneral on 18 August 2020, 07:59:36 PM
Moved house over a year ago and managed to lay claim to one of the bedrooms as my permanent games room/study though currently it is where I am working from home. As part of the decor I managed to reuse some old picture frames with some newly acquired prints.

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Post by: Eric the Shed on 18 August 2020, 08:35:55 PM
love the hoplite print
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Post by: Emir of Askaristan on 18 August 2020, 09:00:11 PM
Nice crown Eric!

Love that hoplite print!
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Post by: Dags on 18 August 2020, 09:10:44 PM
Painted by my daughter.....

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50241311903_860bde2a82_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jxDRDz)
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Post by: Sir_Theo on 18 August 2020, 09:22:03 PM
Quote from: Dags on 18 August 2020, 09:10:44 PM
Painted by my daughter.....

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50241311903_860bde2a82_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jxDRDz)

Oh I love that
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Post by: armchairgeneral on 18 August 2020, 09:24:03 PM
Quote from: Eric the Shed on 18 August 2020, 08:35:55 PM
love the hoplite print

Got it from this guy

https://www.artstation.com/lacedemon
Title: Re: Whats on your wall?
Post by: Codsticker on 19 August 2020, 06:55:53 AM
This is not my place but it is a private war museum that we get together and play games in a half dozen times per year (pre-COVID  ::)):
(https://i.imgur.com/SAuX1Vf.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/YmTWumA.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/EBwytW9.jpg)

It contains memorabilia and items form WW1, WW2, and the Korean War.
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Post by: AKULA on 19 August 2020, 01:24:05 PM
Nice rack  :-*
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Post by: Codsticker on 20 August 2020, 02:30:51 AM
I think the rifle collection is impressive; he's gone for one from all the nations.
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Post by: syrinx0 on 20 August 2020, 04:33:58 AM
Nice gaming space!
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Post by: Harry Faversham on 20 August 2020, 05:29:48 AM
The wargaming, diecast, aircraft prints and airborne stuff used to be in separate departments in the old emporium. In the New Emporium by the Seaside everything is in one auditorium...

(https://www.thewargameswebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/hm_bbpui/118646/fh99po7kp48epn5b5ynstwlulpyc7m0b.jpg)

(https://www.thewargameswebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/hm_bbpui/116389/tmrg1j671z09mn4gjzk1uvsj7h589pqd.jpg)

(https://www.thewargameswebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/hm_bbpui/116389/rlbcb5kl18z4l05he0rrtlbcemjafta1.jpg)

(https://www.thewargameswebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/hm_bbpui/116389/yaayqxv3xywe1u76vqh08a2jffmqqqjv.jpg)

:)
Title: Re: Whats on your wall?
Post by: Atheling on 20 August 2020, 09:43:21 AM
Not very wargames related as such and definitely not the original (I don't have a cool 2.7 million to fork out for such things!):

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Post by: Daeothar on 20 August 2020, 01:20:04 PM
As my gaming room is being (sloooowly ::) ) redecorated, right now, there is nothing on the walls at all.

But I do have stuff to put up, once the heavy work is out of the way. Some of these I've had for many decades, and will finally see their time to shine.

An original 1977 Star Wars film poster (which will be framed and go on the door), the full set of Ralph McQuary portfolios (SW, ESB and RotJ); I've reserved a stretch of wall for a small selection of these (can't and won't put all of them up ;) ), so probably somewhere between 1 to 4 per movie, each one framed.

Back in highschool I copied the LotR fold out map from my copy of the book on parchment paper in coloured inks, added an actual wax seal to it and framed it. It has been on the wall in every place I've lived since then, so it will be put up too (even though I am sorely tempted to create a much better version, with my vastly improved skill set of today...).

Then there are 4 technical blueprints of original (unseen) mechs from Battletech; I'll have to choose one of them to put up, since they're rather big.

Right now, there are also a couple of non-wargaming related artworks stored in the room, which may or may not be put up permanently: several small impressionist paintings by an uncle of my ex, on canvas,  and a rather old framed print copy of an Anton Pieck work for the Efteling (a local fairy tale theme park), depicting Little Red Riding Hood. I like Pieck's work (he did some really dark stuff too), so who knows?

I also have a plethora of wargames posters, which I might reserve one frame for, and change them out every now and then. Think mostly Warhammer (40K), but also Infinity, Warmachine, Battletech, Bolt Action, Gates of Antares, and many more.

A copy of the famous Times Magazine (Man of the Year) mirror from The Big Lebowski.

A reproduction of a huge Out of Africa painting from a Spanish museum on pre-history we visited last year; it's a skull, but also Africa, representing the Out of Africa theory. Hey; I liked it.

And finally, back in the day I framed all certificates I received for winning tournaments and/or painting competitions in the GW circuit. They're all way in the past now, so I might do away with them, but if I have to keep one, it'll probably be the triple finalist nomination from Games Day 2006. That was the very first time I entered a Golden Daemon, and went through to the finals with all three of my entries. So that one's a bit special I suppose.

Oh, and I just remembered having some limited artworks of Fokker planes of WW2 lying around too; I certainly have the G-1, and then the D-VII and one of the biplanes. They might make an appearance too.

So, phew; that's quite a bit of wall surface already reserved, and there is only so much real estate to go around. I might have to make choices... ::)
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Post by: Mammoth miniatures on 20 August 2020, 05:11:22 PM
Quote from: Atheling on 20 August 2020, 09:43:21 AM
Not very wargames related as such and definitely not the original (I don't have a cool 2.7 million to fork out for such things!):

Good taste!


I have a small Grayson perry drawing that he made for me after a lecture.again not wargame related.
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Post by: armchairgeneral on 20 August 2020, 10:13:28 PM
Quote from: Atheling on 20 August 2020, 09:43:21 AM
Not very wargames related as such and definitely not the original (I don't have a cool 2.7 million to fork out for such things!):

It does kind of remind me of those woods on WW1 battlefields after a few bombardments!

If you did have 2.7 million, I would like to hope you would spend it more wisely on lots of toy soldiers and a custom built gaming hall in which to house and game with them in  lol
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Post by: Blackwolf on 20 August 2020, 10:46:38 PM
Atheling,I like your print :)
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Post by: Atheling on 21 August 2020, 09:45:23 AM
Quote from: Blackwolf on 20 August 2020, 10:46:38 PM
Atheling,I like your print :)

Anselm Kiefer's probably one of the most interesting artists of the 20th Century. Still very much relevant today IMHO. Gerhard Richter's another artist who broke down the walls. His Baader Meinhof series is mind blowing. And very subtle.