BoB and RCW paintings

[argsilverson]

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!

[Poliorketes]

Some really marvelous stuff!

[Hammers]

That painting of Bokhara is an inspiration! I'd like to model some thing like that!

[Ignatieff]

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!

[PeteMurray]

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"

[Ignatieff]

Pete,

Brilliant.

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

[PeteMurray]

Yes! Just like that!

[Westfalia Chris]

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"



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!"

[PeteMurray]

Chris, your works demonstrate proper progressive spirit and revolutionary consciousness! I love the "New Messages" flag.

[Boggler]

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? 

[Wirelizard]

"You Have New Personal Messages!"

You know, if you resized that just a bit, it would fit perfectly in the current sidebar of this forum! 

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Pete,

Brilliant.

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

that's very cool, Steve, I love that pic 

[Prof.Witchheimer]

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!"

brilliant, Chris  have to think about of possible using of that PM pic, a stroke of genius, mate!

[Admiral Benbow]

Ahh, Pete, now I understand too. You mean something like this:



 

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 ...   

[Burnin Coal]

What an excellent find - thanks for sharing