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Miniatures Adventure => Back of Beyond => Topic started by: argsilverson on 04 June 2008, 12:05:49 PM

Title: BoB and RCW paintings
Post by: argsilverson on 04 June 2008, 12:05:49 PM
Dear All.

I have found the following message in TMP (thanks to them)

http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=144284

The link of the picture "Storming the gates of Bokhara" leads to some website with lot of paintings with RCW and BoB interest.

Check the link:

http://fullimg.crazys.info/1175315465/1175313985_772.jpg

It sounds promising!
Title: Re: BoB and RCW paintings
Post by: Poliorketes on 04 June 2008, 12:39:11 PM
Some really marvelous stuff!
Title: Re: BoB and RCW paintings
Post by: Hammers on 04 June 2008, 01:37:57 PM
That painting of Bokhara is an inspiration! I'd like to model some thing like that!
Title: Re: BoB and RCW paintings
Post by: Ignatieff on 04 June 2008, 03:20:15 PM
Truely marvellous stuff - well done you for uncovering!  Note on no.15 the British officers skulking at the back of the White execution squad, having done their dirty deed.  This picture is called 'The martyrdom of the Baku commissars', by Isaac Brodsky. Peter Hopkirks 'On Secret Service east of Constantinople' has a lot about this incident, which the Bolsheviks/Soviets used as evidence of a 'foreign plot' against Russia.  There were even monuments in and around Baku blaming 'British interventionists' for the 'murder' of the Commissars.  Wonderful!
Title: Re: BoB and RCW paintings
Post by: PeteMurray on 04 June 2008, 04:41:07 PM
I just love those old Soviet Realism paintings. We should commission our own paintings in that heroic style for the LAF.

"Defeat of the 500 Errors"
"Judging the LPL"
"Plynkes Files a Battle Report"
"At the Lead Adventure Meeting"
"Grimm and the Professor Build a Board"
"Death of the Never-Victorious Army"
"You Have New Personal Messages!"
"No, Comrade, You Have These Figures I No Longer Want"
Title: Re: BoB and RCW paintings
Post by: Ignatieff on 04 June 2008, 05:10:53 PM
Pete,

Brilliant. lol

You mean something like this perhaps?? (The League after our very first outing in Turin, 2003)

(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh164/defoix/RoadtoKashgar077.jpg)
Title: Re: BoB and RCW paintings
Post by: PeteMurray on 04 June 2008, 05:17:45 PM
Yes! Just like that!
Title: Re: BoB and RCW paintings
Post by: Westfalia Chris on 04 June 2008, 06:08:36 PM
Quote from: PeteMurray on 04 June 2008, 04:41:07 PM
I just love those old Soviet Realism paintings. We should commission our own paintings in that heroic style for the LAF.

That would be great. Until then:

"At the Lead Adventure Meeting"

(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg236/Christian_S_1979/Artworks%20etc/LAFMEET.jpg)

Of course, Comrade Maik´s abode is far more accomodating, but it captures the cheerful atmosphere perfectly. Or we´ll have the artists count trees.

"You Have New Personal Messages!"

(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg236/Christian_S_1979/Artworks%20etc/NEW_PMs.jpg)
Title: Re: BoB and RCW paintings
Post by: PeteMurray on 04 June 2008, 06:22:07 PM
Chris, your works demonstrate proper progressive spirit and revolutionary consciousness! I love the "New Messages" flag.
Title: Re: BoB and RCW paintings
Post by: Boggler on 04 June 2008, 07:34:14 PM
That's where TMP gets you when you post one of those 'I wonder if anyone knows...' sort of messages  ;)

I was trying to find the painting for use in the campaign I'm going to start in the Autumn at my club. We've been to Kashgar on a previous campaign so I thought it would be nice to end up somewhere else...then I remembered Bukhara and that reminded me of the painting.

Who knows maybe I will make a 28mm version of the gates of the Ark for the grand finale?  lol

Title: Re: BoB and RCW paintings
Post by: Wirelizard on 04 June 2008, 07:36:16 PM
Quote from: Westfalia Chris on 04 June 2008, 06:08:36 PM
"You Have New Personal Messages!"

(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg236/Christian_S_1979/Artworks%20etc/NEW_PMs.jpg)

You know, if you resized that just a bit, it would fit perfectly in the current sidebar of this forum!  :D
Title: Re: BoB and RCW paintings
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on 04 June 2008, 07:42:42 PM
Quote from: Ignatieff on 04 June 2008, 05:10:53 PM
Pete,

Brilliant. lol

You mean something like this perhaps?? (The League after our very first outing in Turin, 2003)

(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh164/defoix/RoadtoKashgar077.jpg)

that's very cool, Steve, I love that pic  lol
Title: Re: BoB and RCW paintings
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on 04 June 2008, 07:45:04 PM
Quote from: Westfalia Chris on 04 June 2008, 06:08:36 PM
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg236/Christian_S_1979/Artworks%20etc/LAFMEET.jpg)

Of course, Comrade Maik´s abode is far more accomodating, but it captures the cheerful atmosphere perfectly. Or we´ll have the artists count trees.

"You Have New Personal Messages!"

(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg236/Christian_S_1979/Artworks%20etc/NEW_PMs.jpg)

brilliant, Chris  lol have to think about of possible using of that PM pic, a stroke of genius, mate!
Title: Re: BoB and RCW paintings
Post by: Admiral Benbow on 04 June 2008, 08:29:11 PM
Ahh, Pete, now I understand too. You mean something like this:

(http://www.picolodia.com/store/medium_s80ipu.jpg)

 :)

Yes, I can understand that nobody here imagined our club and ourselves being THAT old, but that's the price you'll have to pay when continuously living in other worlds and times ...  lol  lol
Title: Re: BoB and RCW paintings
Post by: Burnin Coal on 08 June 2014, 05:45:08 PM
What an excellent find - thanks for sharing