Back of Beyond Painting Club

[Helen]

Super excellent.

[Orctrader]

Latest editions, just great.   

[Admiral Benbow]

#71 Gruesome find of Admiral Benbow (Pulp Figures)

Oh yes, remember that incident when the Prof and me lead that hilarious expedition through the Gündelbach hinterland ...
Nice photo, old chap!
 

[Driscoles]

oh my....thats really him !

[Hammers]

#72 Enok Nitti, Sami scout



Copplestone, driver converted with näbbstövlar, pukka, kolt och lappmössa.

[Captain Blood]

Brilliant Peder 

[Dr Mathias]

That is really interesting! I wasn't aware of that ethnic group.

[Vagabond]

The huskeys are excellent especially like the glint in their eyes.   

Do you remember where they came from - apart from the artic that is.

[Hammers]

That is really interesting! I wasn't aware of that ethnic group.

Well, like many ethnic minorities they are struggling to maintain and keep alive their traditions. Conflict of interest and cultural imperialism (aggressiv and/or passive) is a constant threat. But in all fairness many sami (or lapps as they were called earlier) attributes, like the boots, reindeer pelts and the knives are part of Swedish common identity. Reindeer meat (reindeer are only herded by sami) is a true common delicacy of our national gastronomy.

There is a sami nation, Sapmi, stretching across Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola peninsula of Russia, but it has no real autonomy. Swedish sami bow to the Swedish king*), etc.

I am not sure the sami as a people belong in the BoB (as it is defined among us), but what the hell, I don't know i any other subforum fits the ticket any better. Story of their lives, I suppose.

*) ...or, like most other Swedish subjects, briefly pause the zapping, should His Majesty appear on the telly.

[Vagabond]

No.73 (Ironclad Miniatures) Chinese Bodyguard

This is a photograph of Chang - bodyguard and general enforcer to the inscrutable Yu Lon Chi the head man of the White Hyacinth Tong based in Ürümqi, in North West China taken here in the Tianshan Mountains 1926. (see entry 65)



Changs mother died of typhus when he was 6 months old and his father of an equally deadly virus, an unpaid gambling debt to the Rickshaw Drivers Union who ran gambling and racetracks on the north side of town. Rickshaw racing was the hottest sport in Xinjiang Province in the 1920’s.

Chang wandered the streets stealing and fighting until he was spotted by Yu Lon Chi one day when he had just beaten a boy twice his age in a fist fight for a stale loaf of bread.
Chi took him in, fed and clothed him and now Chang reveres Chi as the father figure he never really knew.

Everyone knows that to get to Chi, you have to go through Chang, and no one goes through Chang.

[Helen]

Lovely entries. Well done to all.

[tin shed gamer]

Hammers.
Love it,had me feeling very nostalgic ( but then trust a swede to give you a sense of snow).
 Your right back if beyond does seem right. Its what you feel when you see the herds.

Mark.

[Argonor]

Dammit, those last entries once more makes me go shopping.

The Sami sled driver is a fantastic conversion, and the whole 'vignette' is just catching my impressionf of the Sami people (only missing some reindeer!). The Ironclad guy is now just screaming to get included in a sinister Pulp gang (I originally avoided buying him, as I thought the mini looked a bit meh in the bare metal - but painted it suddenly appeals to me, a lot!).

I didn't comment on the Prof.'s 'Admiral Benbow', as it is so obviously great, which does not mean that it did not leave me dribbling with envy, too. I love the pulpy aspects of the Back of Beyond setting, and any Bob Murch sculpt appearing here is just making me plan more future purchases (or set me off digging through my extensive back catalogue of acquired mins).

[Plynkes]

That is really interesting! I wasn't aware of that ethnic group.

In English we call their region Lapland, and some people think that's where Santa Claus lives (in fact they run Christmas short breaks to take your kids there to meet him).


I don't believe in Santa Claus. I'm strictly a Father Christmas kind of chap. Before the sentimental Victorians merged him with Santa and made him all about giving presents to snot-nosed kids, he was the English god of getting shit-faced at Christmas.


Lovely job, Hammers. I'm feeling very Chrissmassy now. I think I shall hit the Amontillado in a spell.

[Argonor]

In English we call their region Lapland, and some people think that's where Santa Claus lives (in fact they run Christmas short breaks to take your kids there to meet him).

That is also the Danish name for the Sami homeland, but everyone knows that Julemanden lives in Greenland!!