Battle Arena

So tonight I started my battle arena, the board was lying around begging to be used and I folded lol and i thought i would share the journey.

I started by drawing a circle 44cm in diameter (just so it will fit the board that i had). this was then sectioned into quarters, eighths and so on till their were enough points that it would suit a post and rope fence.

Note to anyone who has to drill or cut MDF wear a dust mask and put on some goggles the dust is killer.

Before fitting all the posts to the board i had to fit the rope to the posts harder than it sounds trust me!, I didn’t drill the hole for them at the right size but with some clear tape made into a type of needle i could thread though all the posts.

Using some masking tape to cover the holes on the underside of the board, I used PVA to put the posts into the board

For the next stage of the Build I began to paint the posts with citadel Devlan mud wash just to give a old wood look. I’ve not done any highlighting on the posts yet I think I’m just gonna wait and see how it looks.

I  removed the rope and mixed devlan mud, PVA and some snakebite leather (yep found at the bottom of the the paint box lol) and slowly started to paint and re -threading the rope as i go, i put a sag into the rope again so when the paint dried it becomes solid,when it was completely dry i went round again touching up ant missed spots.

Been on a holiday for a week so the build has been slowed a little, but I found a great model train shop Digitrains in Lincoln  and bought some more supplies so the build will continue.

I liked the idea of the “big bad” in the game having the higher ground so i thought about using a podium and after getting some cork i gave it a go.

I’d broke the cork into more bit and started gluing them down on some balsa the plan was to make it look as if a wizard had pulled this up from the earth to be his podium.

I had to use some PVA and toilet tissue to fill in the larger voids.  after all the cork had been used i washed the whole thing with a PVA water mix approximately 50/50

(I also watched all of Mel’s Videos the terrain tutor on rock out crops).

I decided that i’d need to have something on there to stand a mini on so the coffee sticks came in handy.

I roughed them up with a blade and sand paper and used PVA to glue them, while I was cutting them to size I roughly cut them to fit the top of the out cropping.

I started off with mat black rattle can.

Next was dry-brushing, working from grey to white.

I did try to follow  The Terrain Tutor in building and painting this.