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Great work guys some cool things being turned out, I watch in awe as your creative images become reality.

However once again I will not be entering this comp as I cant finish my master piece, due to constraints beyond my control.

The reason is I order some stuff to build it and the order has gone a fray as I wanted to do this project anyway I cannot complete it in a substandard way.

The vision needs to be the final piece therefore I must bow out now ……. Sorry once again for not finishing a third project

Good luck to you all

next time we have to device a smaller project...(no pun intended...)

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
next time we have to device a smaller project...(no pun intended...)

It's not so much the size it's the time scale, if it had till november I could get it done ………… probably

Was it extended till the 20th? If so i'll be able to finish WITH bar, otherwise without..., but finish it I will!!!

For all my good intentions, I doubt I can get a finished piece done by the deadline either. I think it's hilarious that this competition has spurred me to get stuff going and keep on it, but I didn't start early enough to make it. i'm with LDD: November is possible, next week is not.

That said, I'm going to keep working on it. Vik is this what you're thinking? I'm not sure I'm sold on it, but I like it more than I thought I would.



And here's what I did last night. Can anyone suggest a good filler for insulation sheet?

@ Mars: I like the blue and white scheme, but would personally only paint the lower bar in blue. Although, considering eldar, they would probably do one colour only on such a gate...

As for a decent filler... have you tried either plaster of Paris, or maybe wall filler? I'd use wall filler myself, and then use a very wet knife to smooth it all out again...

Looking good so far...


How would the first of november be for everyone, deadline wise? (Not at all influencing our judge hehehe)

I like this design the best , plus I agree with maus wall filler is my go to guy

Shall I extend it again? I'll probably be busy around the 20th anyway, so we might as well make it Nov. 1.... if that's allright with everyone?

I shall do my best to be ready!

Thanks everyone for all the feedback. I'm a terrible procrastinator with this sort of thing (12 hour days at work really suck it out of me). You guys are definitely keeping me on task. I love it!

Id honestly say Red for the cross pieces would look good. kinda like a shinto gate.

http://www.mostphotos.com/259653/shinto-gate-torii

wiki link for torii
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torii

Well seeing as I'm back to modelling at the minute and it looks like there's now an extended deadline I might have an idea or two I could give a quick try, so much for getting my forces ready for apoc on the 28th!

 Galorn wrote:
Id honestly say Red for the cross pieces would look good. kinda like a shinto gate.

http://www.mostphotos.com/259653/shinto-gate-torii

wiki link for torii
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torii

I think this just reinforces my reluctance: these gates are all one color (the little roof being different). Now that it's all carved out of one piece I just don't know where to make it look like it's pieced together and I like the idea that it was quarried it as a single piece.

I think one colour is the way to go. I do like the look of the runes up the legs, works well I think - you could then pick out the recesses in the crossbeams in the same colour as the text.

I think I prefered your earlier suggestion about the eye - having just an eye shape, hanging between the cross beams.

All good though

I'm still drawn to the blue gate. I think the cool of the blue will work well to set it off from the brown of the landscape, but I do like the white more than I thought I would. I'm thinking of trying a blue marble with white veins with red glyphs (although now that I type this I think I'd like to avoid a red/white/blue scheme). Maybe white with red glyphs would be better? I'll have to look through my concept options again.

That space between the cross beams is just so small, the eye would also be really small. I think that the medallion makes it a bit more prominent. I don't know, I also thought I'd carve the eye into the stone in the center of the platform. I'll have to look through my glyphs to see if something else would work.

well i think your latest mock up pic works for me... but i seem to be the only one here^^

and...mr merlin... i am with the rest on the extended deadline... november the first...

there is still so much to do for my own arena...i have today worked on a sort of refferee/ counter device... will show pics of primed model tomorrow...

 Ignatius-Grulgor wrote:
Well seeing as I'm back to modelling at the minute and it looks like there's now an extended deadline I might have an idea or two I could give a quick try, so much for getting my forces ready for apoc on the 28th!

That would be great! I'm already curios about what you'll come up with!

So, just to make the 1st Nov official :

The new and improved official -=]_=- Contest-deadline: November 1st -=]_=-



keep building guys, you are awesome!

Merlin you star I will do my damnedest to get this done in time you have my word Now I need to sculpt and wait for this dam order to turn up

That's great to hear, LDD!!

Now.... where's dem wipz, boyz?

 MrMerlin wrote:
That's great to hear, LDD!!

Now.... where's dem wipz, boyz?

Ooooo Kinky !!!!!

Oh god LDD, what goes on inside your head?! lol
I have to watch every word I type when you're around.... *sigh*



So.... WIPs anyone?

 MrMerlin wrote:
Oh god LDD, what goes on inside your head?! lol
I have to watch every word I type when you're around.... *sigh*



So.... WIPs anyone?

You really don't want to know what goes on in my head it scares me at times LOL

I have WIP pics but I don't want to post them yet, kind of keeping it low key at the moment

I like what mars is doing so far. He really sort of stepped out of the "fighting pit" definition making an absolutely playable piece of terrain. Fresh, elegant and practical just as I like

Update: I think I might actually make this one happen. I've decided on a treatment for the shrine and am very close to making a decision on the platform. All the terrain is sanded and painted (I'm really happy with how it turned out). I'll post pics next week after I get the shrine started - gotta wait till monday though. All in all it will be close, but I think I can finish within the (new) deadline.

Thanks again for doing this everyone. Who knows how long this would have sat on my desk before I finished it. I guess next I'll need to get into an army painting competition so I can bring a finished army to my now-terrained table.

Death company killing arena? challenge accepted!


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Or a 40k all stars fightin' arena!

i'll try to make something too

well i did something


update time:

yesterday and today i did the detail work on the audience part... added a tiles for the walls, and added doors...

also i finsihed the columns that got a total redo from scratch...but see for yourself:










cheers, vik

I like these columns much better. I was also thinking that they feel small. Or maybe walls should be jutting out to the hex-walls. Something like 3D chess or something. Maybe just bigger blocks. I don't know.

I really like it regardless. Who's going to be spectating?

That neon is looking good.

-j

Who's going to be spectating

HA! wont tell you! but it will be worth a laugh.... thats for sure rest assured it will be crowded i tend to be rather inventive for my dioramas!!!

as for your other suggestions... all very good ideas... but time is in short suply... work is eating up most of my energy...and thus i have to cut short of new things to add... so the lower part...the fighting pit as such... will stay as seen above...

i am as sorry as the next guy because of this... to be frank... i envisioned it as a complete set of two of these dios to make a true playable field... but time ...well time is ticking away... and i NEEEEEED to make something else soon...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:

Who's going to be spectating

HA! wont tell you! but it will be worth a laugh.... thats for sure rest assured it will be crowded i tend to be rather inventive for my dioramas!!!

as for your other suggestions... all very good ideas... but time is in short suply... work is eating up most of my energy...and thus i have to cut short of new things to add... so the lower part...the fighting pit as such... will stay as seen above...

i am as sorry as the next guy because of this... to be frank... i envisioned it as a complete set of two of these dios to make a true playable field... but time ...well time is ticking away... and i NEEEEEED to make something else soon...

That was exactly what I thought when I was making those suggestions - there's no way there's time to do it. At this point, it is what it is.

And this is where I am at the moment:



I'm hopefully going to paint tonight and tomorrow. Maybe I can get it in under the wire.

-j

Vik..... great work again, your arena is shaping up very nicely. Can't wait to see what surprises you have in store for us!

and mars.... I LOVE it! The runes are beautiful, man!

Now, where's everyone else? There's only a bit more than a week left....