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If he did he's found the right way of doing it.

thanks monkey... will remeber the golden rule of weathering for sure the next time i will weather something (now that i tasted the sweet rotting taste this will happen way quicker too )

i worked by the way for some raised hexes today... work progresses and hopefully i can show you my testings...

for bigger stuff to weather i will soon start using a big makeup sponge my wife gave me... nice textures i tell ye!

and graven... thanks mate... if you have a referrence pic i would love to see that... this will be my next move soon... to see how i can achieve that look...

and yes...

my makeup may be flaking but my smile still stays on

Well, there's a dance club in Tron Uprising:

That was vaguely affecting my brain, I think.

And then there's the battle floor in Tron: Evolution:


That help?

Graven... for your Tron reference, you get a gazillion bajillion cool points

the last pic was what i had in mind too... i guess when i get around to do those raised bitz it will look that way... having had some difficulties to get the pieces done in a suitable way... have to do some more try and error stages before i can show you...

and the first pic well despite the mass of peeps standing everywhere around^^ i guess the look is very fitting... i guess i have to do now some research for tron tabletop ideas^^

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
the last pic was what i had in mind too... i guess when i get around to do those raised bitz it will look that way... having had some difficulties to get the pieces done in a suitable way... have to do some more try and error stages before i can show you...

and the first pic well despite the mass of peeps standing everywhere around^^ i guess the look is very fitting... i guess i have to do now some research for tron tabletop ideas^^

for that, watch Tron: Uprising, its an animated story set between the two films done by disney and with a brilliant voice cast too!!

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Graven... for your Tron reference, you get a gazillion bajillion cool points

*Takes a bow*

Viktor von Domm wrote:the last pic was what i had in mind too... i guess when i get around to do those raised bitz it will look that way... having had some difficulties to get the pieces done in a suitable way... have to do some more try and error stages before i can show you...

and the first pic well despite the mass of peeps standing everywhere around^^ i guess the look is very fitting... i guess i have to do now some research for tron tabletop ideas^^

Well I live to give. It's more the light show and colour palette that got me thinking, really.

i am more and more thinking about watching all of that ^^

i am a bit feeling disapointed in myself that didn´t see the tron possibilities myself early on... would have been a cool way to paint those robots in a tron like vision...

well... no point in grumbling over spilled milk, eh?

You mean spilled derezzed pixels?

Could be insane and quickly strip them and redo it. But, I would suggest just making it a different project for the arena later.

Still might be able to get a few more ideas for the arena from this video as well.


I'd be both awesome and somewhat insane if you managed for make the platforms adjustable.

so here comes the big update!

i did some more research and try and error dry fitting with some more hex shaped tiles of games we have at home...




which made me think anew about the shape of the tiles for the floor... i didn´t want to do million hex shaped tiles to cut a long story short... so i then went for rectangle shaped tiles...

first try... way too boring...



then my wife suggested mixing larger tiles with only a querter of the size tiles... which was the winner for me...

also you see the raised platforms... did them from tiles in a sandwich manner... this will give the columns some nice texture i can play with...drybrushing for instance...







then the empty walls gave me some trouble... but i thought better and then the obvious solution bite me... why not do the walls in the same fashion as the floor? exactly!

as seen here :


















every detail is done with cardboard... the walls with thin cardboard... the floor with rather thick card...

the grainy pics i added as i wanted to show you the depth and feel of the whole scene... the ligt was only bulb light so please be patient with me^^

now i need to work on the upper section...

and i have made a most grave decision... there won´t be any rivets for this arena involved... as this high tech feel dio wont look suitable for rivtes... it is supposed to be sleek and glowy... hopefully i can pull that off...

thanks for watching... vik

That looks more awesome! Nicely done.

Tron style colour scheme maybe? Dark colours for the centre of the tiles with a bright colour on the edge might look like a holo-training centre.

exactly... that is the plan... how to achive that... well^^

for now i want to do the whole setup in a green going to yellow scheme...with some bright white higlights in the middle... the gaps in the tiles will be kind of bright light areas... dunno if you can follow me here...

for now i am a bit at a loss for ideas for the upper sections tho... should i repeat the floor tiles idea there too? or do you have another idea for me?

Looks groovy. If you repeat the floor pattern on the ceiling you clearly need someone walking on it, as if each side is gravity plates. Also, for that matter, someone on a wall too.

And I want a pony.

Looking good vik!

I'd add a couple more of the raised areas - lower than the tallest ones, and just maybe one or two coming out of the wall? Added danger/obstruction.

I think the spectator's area should be done slightly differently - leave the square sections for the actual arena, just to differentiate between the areas.

at monkey... yeah i think you are right... there needs to be a different style for the spectators area... i like the wall raised tiles idea...

i actually have already two sizes of columns shown in the pics...




you think i need even more and with more variation too?

as for the columns from the wall... surley not that big? more like the look of the thing?

will see about that... tho these might be difficult to handle as i dunno what the glue and material mix can take...

at garven... thanks mate! and see above... a mini walking on the walls... very matrix style^^ i like that... tho i dunno what i could do to make these stick to the wall long enough even to take a pic^^

Yeah, I think one, possibly two more raised sections on the floor would work.

For the wall I was thinking of some of the smaller tiles, it just had a bit more of a feel of the danger room if there were obstacles coming from a variety of directions. You could even have one protuding enough to have a figure perched on it.

hmmm... good ideas... i see what you mean...


by the way... the smaller tiles on the floor are ment to be given smaller lights... like so:



only that i use small holepunched disks around 5mm in diameter two disks thick... what do you think about that?

and i agree... the smaller tiles on the wall would look cool as obstacles coming from the walls


and if i do a bigger tiles as a raised hoizontal platform... that woould look cool to be used as a new vantage point for a shooter...

That is looking really good Vik. Could find a place on most any table.

thanks mate! atm that project is a lot of fun to do... if i play my card right i might be able to prime / basecoat it even tomorrow...

of course no spray primer

Spray primer = poor man's airbrush

Spray primer = poor man's airbrush

I know this isn't what you mean exactly but I just want to say that when making my scenery I must have spent a small fortune on spray primer but a cheap airbrush or spraygun with a compressor and a single £10 pot of vallejo black primer would have saved me £££s. Never buying spray primer again!

I cant believe I am going to say this but I prefer the hex flooring it had a more futuristic feel to it and the new floor is like paving plus the same pattern on the walls looks odd to me as well.

I kind of saw them more as large sections in a brick pattern but metal sheeting, that on the wall would have looked pretty dam cool and shiny …….. sorry Vik but on this occasion I think the direction you have taken is the wrong one.

i have to agree with him the hexing was much cooler.

don´t feel bad about it mates... i know that hex tiles would be cool... but i couldn´t have done that in the manner to get columns and all those tiles in the right shape... one must face his skills...getting out of the comfy zone is one thing... hopefully i can catch you still with the look i try to achieve...

tho LDD and comradepanda... i apreciate the honesty of yours...

at bruticus... i got a nice (really nice) AB pistol... but i still have no compressor... until then brushes are my tools... and i can´t use spray primer atm as too much bare foam is used on this model... would ruin everything...

Wild battle arena Vik!

You would have to watch Tenchi to understand it,,sort of.

But I have the same female minis that had the wing devices.

That is awesome Vik! The staggered square tiles really take the win! I like them on the walls too!
Reminds me a bit of the Cobra Sportatorium!

Maybe try to smooth the edges though for the sandwiched columns. Lights I suppose could be on the corners if you go with them.

I guess as an idea, you could have some of them sort of raised as a group as well. I also quite like the staggered look of the different square sizes.

Hey Vik,
usually I don't really criticize my peers work, especially when it's such an awesome idea, but ...

...the hexes are so much cooler, that you're really giving away so much of the potential result, that I must raise my concern.
Please re-think the issue!
Work with the hexes, but don't stack them for the elevated platforms, rather use (for example)
a plastic rod in the center (maybe painted like some Tron neon pipe) and then do the "walls" of the elevated platform in clear plastic - like form a blister pack, or anything else packed in clear plastic (recycling for the win!).
I think this would look very cool and unique.
If you don't want to go for the clear look, please still go for the hexes, don't stack, rather build sides - maybe with indentions, which you can paint ala Tron.
The square tiles are great for the walls, but for the floor and elevated platform, hexes rule.
This is really a cool project!
Cheers
Klaus

Sorry Vik, you'll not like me for this... but I much prefer the hexagonal tiles... it's much more TRON like, and lends itself to the futuristic idea of an arena tbh...

but thats my opinion...

BUT Klaus says the same, so are you going to ignore him as well?