"What do you have displayed in your game room? " Topic

I was looking around today for items that I misplaced (it could happen 🤔). I glanced at a painting hanging on my wall and saw a prescription my Dr wrote for me, tucked into the corner of the frame. I took a picture to share.

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Does anyone else have any odd or humorous things hidden in plain sight in you game room?

Matthew

I wish I remembered how to make the image appear instead of the link.

Matthew

Mounted heads of all the gamers I've defeated.

A bit like this:

A tour of my study: link

Here's one of the pics from that link:

PS: The American flag is co-incidental. It is just one of the flags in my collection. I'm not from America, but live in New Zealand.

Since I moved my game room into a basement I haven't really had any wall deco as it is awkward trying to hang pictures from cement. I do have busts of Alexander, Augustus (wearing a Mongolian crown,) and Napoleon. My study has various edged weapons (some real) hanging on the walls. My foyer has 3-D school maps of Europe, Asia and Africa that came through the 1900 storm in Galveston. TMS!

When I eventually get a dedicated game room, I think I want to decorate it with sci-fi and propaganda posters.

Love the tours of game rooms shared above, thanks for posting.

Wish I had one…

It varies. Battle prints of course. A map of Middle Earth for SF battles, and I need something equivalent for Barsoom and for more generic SF. The pride of the collection are a couple of old maps from MCNW CLS battles of the late sixties or early seventies--the big fall invitational "formal games"--which I colored in and had framed.
Hmmm. Closing in on 50 years since I commanded troops in Leipzig I.

My grandfather's military unit photo from WWI
A poster of Alabama regimental flags from the American Civil War
A picture of the Rough Riders attacking up the hill
Photos of Custer and some of his officers
Photo of George H. Thomas
Print of the Battle of Maiwand
Photo of the Sun in H-alpha wavelength taken by a telescope I used to work with

Grelber

I have pretty small room with limited wall space. But do have some fairly eclectic prints and photos. First I have a couple of nice military prints. The first is the "Fall of Dundee" at Killikrankie. The second is the Thin Red Line at Balaclava.

I also love baseball and have a great print of Sportsman's Park in St.Louis for the 1946 World Series.

Along with my 1970's vintage stereo and 600ish vinyl record I have an awesome photo of the Seattle band Temple of the Dog signed by all its members.

Last I have a display cabinet with some painted figures, as well as some 1/1200 pre-dreadnought ships.

Movie posters (Mad Max, Apoc Now, Blues Brothers, etc), destination posters from Piedmont Airlines, a "Whine Celler" sign, a sworn pledge from one of my opponents in FoW that he would advance rather than camp (reneged upon in the first game after), "Win as Asskicking" contest sign, picture of John Wayne in his Green Beret outfit, and lots of minis.

Alas, the game room is no more.

Used to have a 1/3 or 1/4 scale knight in shining armor in the entryway.

I keep thinking of putting up WWII flags but I keep spending that money on more miniatures and board games.

@Arteis02,

Thank you for the tour of your study. Love all the little touches hidden around. I really love the view from your window. You have a warm, inviting study.

Thank you for sharing it with us.

Matthew

A huge poster of Adrienne Barbeau wearing nothing but a fuscia corset and a come-hither look. It's above the desk I do my writing and game design on.

My muse.

Poster was $3.00 USD back in 1971, framing job was $400 USD,

In another part of the room I have a humorous poster "Naval Battle" also expensively framed.

Recently purchased a professionally framed print of Fragonard's painting "The Swing" for $5 USD at a garage sale. Perhaps the epitome of painting in the Rococo it's wonderful.

I have a collection of colored pen and ink drawings by a little known artist, Brenda Bannon, all of mythological and medieval reatures done in a Renaissance illuminated manuscript style.

Building my new house which will have a huge 32 by 20 ft gaming room. Lots more wall space for other works I have.

Actually I own no battle scenes or military prints.

I find Adrienne much more inspiring.

Gaming room? What gaming room? But ask me again in 6 months if the deal on a new house goes through. It has 1900 sq. feet of unimproved daylight basement just begging to become Gaming Central.

The inevitable "Man Cave" sign greets people at the top of the stairs. Six small prints of horse and musket era battles flank the stairs as you enter the cave. On the walls of the game room are flags of all the major participants in WWII, including an original Nazi flag taken at St. Lo. A watercolor of a P-40 being serviced in Africa I did 45-50 years ago hangs next to the flat-screen TV. Two more signs complete the décor, one says "$5 fine for whining" and the other "Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm." I am blessed.

My gaming room is the room I store most of my minis, so it's just full of minis. We game in the dining room.

I have a display stand of minis (mostly historicals) in my living room.

It's been shuffled around a bit and more cluttered now since this was made but you get the overall idea…..

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No Games room, I have a painting table in the spare room along with a freezer.
On the walls: a picture of my mothers first husband and Canadian who joined the RAF in 1939, became a bomber pilot, killed in 1942. The picture is of him standing on a destroyer heading to Dunkirk for the evacuation. There's a few more of the Mall covered with British soldiers and the return trip of the destroyer packed with them.

Another picture of a Tribal class destroyer.

A framed certificate for being a good Austrian General at the battle of Wagram. One of our big wargames.

A framed flyer that was used to convince German and Italian troops to surrender in the desert, 1942.

Large print of Douglas Bader and Adolf Gallands aircraft by Robert Taylor.

German hunting horn with green leather strapping. I can play it.

In my old game room I used to have replica flags from the Alamo and Germany's WWI Kriegsmarine. Also had framed prints of Rorke's Drift, Isandhlwana, the Russo-Turkish War, US Cavalry circa late 1870's, a portrait of The Duke, a couple photos of my wife, and an original Baltimore Colt Super Bowl poster. In the recent incarnation of the game room, shelving takes up nearly all the wall space so nothing is currently hanging. That'll be rectified late next year when I get a second game room on the main floor. It'll double my gaming area and provide me with a lot more closet space for hideaway storage.

In our 1240 sq ft home, we do not have, we do not have a dedicated wargames room…and that's OK. Instead, we setup a table in the central great room/living room. In it, We have a limited edition print of Victor Adams' "Battle of Wagram". Like Otto's art, the professional framing cost as much or more than the print itself. We also have a lovely print of Vereschagin's print of Napoleon at the gates of Moscow.

I do have a painting space near the window in one of the smaller bedrooms we use as an office. I have a few military prints I've acquired over the years, plus the 1965 issue of LIFE magazine on the battle of Waterloo, given to me by my Dad and framed on the wall. The figures live in boxes in the closet. I know those glass cases look nice, but almost all my gaming is away games, so my little dudes stay ready for travel.

Good subject for a TMP Poll.

Hmmm, let's see -- besides my game table and paint station, and the bookshelves of boardgames, reference books, and other titles, and the drawer units supporting the tabletop that serve as figure storage units, I have:

Repro weapons and helmets/caps (e.g., gladius, claymore, CSA naval cutlass, morning star, Foreign legion kepi, sallet, genuine Zulu assegai, flintlock pistol, Brown Bess, a bow and arrows, a winged Valkyrie helmet (toy)

A statuette of Athena, next to a Persian Immortal, both in front of a model Saturn V moon rocket

Movie poster from The 300 Spartans, with inserted stills

Lobby cards from Zulu, March or Die, Waterloo, and 300 Spartans

Small poster of poker playing dogs

Print of a painting of Marshal Ney

Two original prints by Chris Achilleos of his Amazon paintings

Print of painting of Piper MacKay, Cameron Highlanders, at Waterloo

Autographed pictures of Fess Parker and Richard Egan as Davy Crockett and King Leonidas

Art prints of the battles of Thermopylae, Culloden, the Alamo, the charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo

Art print of Joan of Arc

Wall-mounted display cases of selected minis, plus my piping competition awards

Two large bas-relief plaster busts (vintage Mexican make) of anonymous Greco-Roman generals

Map of Scotland showing clan holdings and the arms of the leading Scottish families and titles of nobility

Misc. military uniform prints, postcards, and occasional cartoons, rotating as the whim strikes.

Years ago, a friend who was a meter reader told me one of the houses he was visiting was no longer occupied and was I interested in a 200 bomb. Response was "Do you really need to ask".

It's a blue practice bomb with fins and all.

An artillery shell from the Boer War.

A large framed print of the 11th Battalion AIF (Australian Imperial Force) on the Pyramids. It was taken shortly before they departed for the Gallipoli landings in 1915.

Every game room needs a poster of Adrienne Barbeau. And then there's Maude.