Imperial steam punk....what? this time e is really dead, bones?

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**SagesStone**

Those bases fit in perfectly.

**Viktor von Domm**

thank you sir!

**inmygravenimage**

Columns look very natural - they almost vanish. The tiled floor based are grand too.

**monkeytroll**

Arena's looking smart, and good job with those bases

**Viktor von Domm**

thanks mates...now i need to figure out some design to do the upper section... black wont be the last repartee for sure here... but what to do i am at my wits end atm...

i am open to suggestions...

i think a more darker theme would be nice... the fighters in a boxing championship wouldn´t like to see the audience in mid fight too so they have a darker background... but how to achieve that?

**cormadepanda**

vik the bases and the pillars came out great for the arena, job well done!

**Viktor von Domm**

thank you sir... a valid entry to the comp?

**storag**

Good job on bases mate, they look very fitting. But I don't like the pillars. The look like stacks of flat plates on sides while they should look like a monolith imo. Maybe you can make them as boxes so the sides were flat?

**Viktor von Domm**

actually the roughness should help carry the force feel of the pillars... but i am rather unsatisfied with them too... guess i have to redo them then

monoliths that is actually the right image!!! thanks mate!

**storag**

Always welcome pal!

I see them as greenish energon cubes from old transformers g1 series. You know, like when they came out from Soundwave's chest

. force field yes, but strait edges. The painting style should be enough to make the field statics.

**Viktor von Domm**

like so...

yes i can see that this would be a great improvement...

shame about all the earlier work :(

any ideas for the upper sections too... i am all ears!!!

**storag**

Yeah, that's what I meant!

Do not worry for the work done! It's the process that gives most of the joy not the result!

Nothing wasted!

As for the upper section... What you like it to be& Is it a fragment of a visitor lodge? Simple or VIP? Or a place for judges?

Some ideas that might help:
- A big score board on the wall
- If it's a regular balcony for crowd some anti-vandal themed details might fit. Like force field barriers between rows. You can make them from pieces of green plastic bottle or a X-box DVD pack (nice greenish plastic) You can ask for false-boxes at any game store, they should have plenty.
- If it's a VIP lodge then there should be some luxury elements: tables, chairs etc.
- A judge or a commentator might vivid up the place. It could be anything and anywhere: From a hovering dics or a small balcony near the score board to a place on the end of a flexible arm attached somewhere. A flexible USB flash light might be a good material, they are cheap and useless

BTW are the wall panels removable somehow? I just got the idea: You can place sheets of can tin behind them and then glue a small magnet to the base of the pillars so you can place them not only on the flor but on walls as well. Walls have the same pattern after all and supposedly the same mechanics. That would be a great LOS breaker in game terms. Any chance?

**Lone Cat**

monkeytroll wrote:

You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!!

Whose tank is this?

the vehicle appears to be Baneblade. but a pair of additional laser weaons doesn't make this vehicle being so. mew!

**Viktor von Domm**

at lonbecat... its from Klaus, not santa... local scratchbuilder god around this board!!!

storag wrote:
Yeah, that's what I meant!

Do not worry for the work done! It's the process that gives most of the joy not the result! Nothing wasted!

you are right... also i offered the sandwich columns already to my son... he wants to play/meddle with them... he is a bit like his father... always collecting junk^^

As for the upper section... What you like it to be& Is it a fragment of a visitor lodge? Simple or VIP? Or a place for judges?

Some ideas that might help:
- A big score board on the wall you´ve read my mind?
already done^^ i got a small giveaway tv set that is able to show you klickable photos... you know those cheap toys you scroll through...mostly done as cams and stuff? will show you later on...

- If it's a regular balcony for crowd some anti-vandal themed details might fit. Like force field barriers between rows. You can make them from pieces of green plastic bottle or a X-box DVD pack (nice greenish plastic) You can ask for false-boxes at any game store, they should have plenty.
actually i have different colored clear CD cases already i could use... what a very cool idea!!! i love that!!! consider yourself bearhugged!!!

- If it's a VIP lodge then there should be some luxury elements: tables, chairs etc.
would have loved to do this but in the concept phase i couldn´t come up with this idea... so i kind of ruined that posibility as it would need major rebuilding then...

- A judge or a commentator might vivid up the place. It could be anything and anywhere: From a hovering dics or a small balcony near the score board to a place on the end of a flexible arm attached somewhere. A flexible USB flash light might be a good material, they are cheap and useless
i´ve thought about something like that... hmmm... i need to see if i have suitable junk and bitz around... for this setup it needend to be a human judge...?

BTW are the wall panels removable somehow? I just got the idea: You can place sheets of can tin behind them and then glue a small magnet to the base of the pillars so you can place them not only on the flor but on walls as well. Walls have the same pattern after all and supposedly the same mechanics. That would be a great LOS breaker in game terms. Any chance?

awesome idea... really... and i could kick myself in the rear for not thinking about that... also... i see no way around that now... the panels are glued to the foamwalls with pva... would ruin everything now... but with magnets... that would have been grande... to say the least...

**storag**

Now I'm going to kick myself for not thinking about all that before =( But I was going through some trainings at work and that stuff kinda pushes everything else from your head =(

The judge can be whatever you like =) I can picture something like the robotic eye at Hutt's palace from Return of the Jedi if you don't want the human one.

**shasolenzabi**

I like it Vik!

**Viktor von Domm**

thanks shaso!!

at storag... that eye idea... will see to that!!!

**cormadepanda**

can i see the progress vik?

**Viktor von Domm**

not today mate... busy day... tomorrow later on i might be able to show you some progress hopefully...

**shasolenzabi**

Looking forwards to it Vik!

**neil101**

love what your doing with those glow y affects and the bases are fantastic camouflage on it .

**mars2024**

Ah ha! I've found you now Vik!

Love the pit. Are you making more of those stacks? I think it will be a great diorama. Did you use glow in the dark for the green? That would be a great pic.

**nerdfest09**

Vik, wow man, the pit looks amazing! :-) seriously cool and the pillars rising from the floor is a stroke of genius that you pulled off superbly! I love it! such a great idea that all came together just so well with the painting and colours you chose makes for one hell of an awesome diorama!

just so, so cool!

**Viktor von Domm**

thanks mates!!!

the stacks you see will be redone completly... hopefully i get around this tomorrow...

and...glow in the dark color...now there is a thought...

why didn´t i have thought of that...??? i have glow in the dark window colors... iirc green and a yellow one... if i add these on the existing paint (which is just diluted scorpion green by the way... rather simple if i say so myself...) then this would make a nice effect when doing dark pics... thanks mars!

today i´ve worked on storags suggestion of making a refferee or judge like device... it will be hovering on an energy beam... totaly scatchbuilt and i even made a new base fo this too... primed the upper part today too... so i hopefully can show you some pics ´morrow...i think this might up the coolness of the dio a level too

thanks for watching!

cheers, vik

**shasolenzabi**

Nice touch adding the referee drone or judgebot

**dsteingass**

Please say the Referee will be wearing stripes?

**shasolenzabi**

dsteingass wrote:
Please say the Referee will be wearing stripes?

One can only hope

**SagesStone**

Hazard stripes, he is a robot after all.

**Viktor von Domm**

erm.... hazard stripes? hmmm.... there are certain areas i could do these... hmmm... since you asked for these... but don´t blame me later on

**inmygravenimage**

I somehow imagined EVA from Wall•E...