It’s time to Ruuumble!

The plan is simple. Take some blue foam and turn it into a fantasy Wrestling ring.

I managed to find a 2ft square, 2 in deep piece of high density foam online and chopped it down to size.

Then, using a rolled up piece of tin foil I rolled it acrosss the surfaces to create some texture. Then, using an off cut I made four columns to use as ring posts.

Next I needed to create the ropes. Having previously had a go at making the official HDF kit and using string for the ropes I decided against doing that again. Turns out it’s not only boats that are a pain to rig!

I did think of using chain but as the ring posts are foam I wasn’t convinced tha t running holes though them would be the best thing structurally.

I decided in the end to use dowels as they would be more robust and more likely to support the posts than damage them.

I gave them a white prime and painted them with the excellent Warcolor One Coat range.

Once they were done I created a basic basing mix of Modge podge, sand and black Acrylic paint, splashed it all over and left it to dry for 24 hrs.

then I hit it with a grey rattle can and drybrushed with some Brainmatter Beige (had to!) and some pure white.

Then it was all down to assembly. Using cocktail sticks and PVA I attached the ring posts and measured where the ropes need to go and made some holes for the to slot into. After some light swearing and clamping into position I left it to dry.

Now at this point I wanted to revisit a gameplay point that we’ve wanted to add for a while which was space to play outside the ring.

After a rummage around Hobbcraft I found a large sheet of Black foam board.

using the existing measurements I made it so that I could add a depth of four squares around the ring.

Whilst in hobby craft I also picked up a white paint pen to mark out the squares.

As I thought gridding up the whole board might end up being quite jarring I settled on marking crosses on the corners only.