My new "Dipped" Stadium
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:35 am
Hey guys, thought I'd share my new board. It debuted at CanCon 2011 where it won Best Board. It's based around the concept of a full stadium where people seeing the game could walk around the edges while the game is in progress (a call back to my days in Hong Kong seeing the Rugby 7s).
I measured it up and the box clocks in at 88cm long, 49cm high and 22cm wide. It weighs an eye watering 32.7kg... I finally gave in and bought a fold up trolley to help move it around
It still needs a lot of work, eventually I want to populate it with spectators and put full signage on it. But it's at a stage now where it's ready to play and I'll add extra stuff in as I go.
Also, I want to point out that this may be a hobby wide record for the single largest "dipped" item! That's right, this is off white, heavy terracotta drybrush and then painted with new baltic pine wood stain and varnish
I was aiming for a sandstone-ish look, to go with the custom desert sand mat made for me by Impact.
Hope you all like it
Box closed
Box half opened (the sideline towers in boxes in the centre)
Box fully open. As you can see the field was off-centre, partly to hide the "Impact Miniatures" sign (sorry tom), and partly to give the extra space needed for the catchment area of the dice tower. I spent a long time debating it, but ultimately decided it'd look better this way.
Dugout. It's supposed to be locker rooms (reserves) with a smaller spot for the coach's office (sin bin). Above those are the observation decks (ko's and cas). Next to that is the VIP seating (scatter). These are a work in progress, I haven't done proper signage on them yet and will probably do a small amount of furniture in the upper decks.
The Stands/Tracks. Obviously these are supposed to be the general admission stands. I was tempted to do just Turns/Rerolls with the lowest track for spectator miniatures, but ultimately decided against it because I didn't want people to get confused over what was a turn/reroll marker and what was decoration.
One of the endzone stands... I picture these being private boxes for major sponsors. I'm going to put food vendors between the two stands, hotdog sellers etc.
The first tower, a combo score and dice tower. This needs a bit of work, the dice had a tendency to rebound into the inside of the tower a bit... I know how to fix it, just need the time. The numbers are held on using velcro dots.
And the second tower, the weather goblins (rotating setup stolen shamelessly from Frank). The top section is removable, and inside there is space for a speaker and remote to play BB sounds during the match. It's held on with rare earth magnets.
And here you can see how the parts of the towers come apart so that it can be packed into a box. If not for this, the box wouldn't close.
I measured it up and the box clocks in at 88cm long, 49cm high and 22cm wide. It weighs an eye watering 32.7kg... I finally gave in and bought a fold up trolley to help move it around
It still needs a lot of work, eventually I want to populate it with spectators and put full signage on it. But it's at a stage now where it's ready to play and I'll add extra stuff in as I go.
Also, I want to point out that this may be a hobby wide record for the single largest "dipped" item! That's right, this is off white, heavy terracotta drybrush and then painted with new baltic pine wood stain and varnish
I was aiming for a sandstone-ish look, to go with the custom desert sand mat made for me by Impact.Hope you all like it
Box closed
Box half opened (the sideline towers in boxes in the centre)
Box fully open. As you can see the field was off-centre, partly to hide the "Impact Miniatures" sign (sorry tom), and partly to give the extra space needed for the catchment area of the dice tower. I spent a long time debating it, but ultimately decided it'd look better this way.
Dugout. It's supposed to be locker rooms (reserves) with a smaller spot for the coach's office (sin bin). Above those are the observation decks (ko's and cas). Next to that is the VIP seating (scatter). These are a work in progress, I haven't done proper signage on them yet and will probably do a small amount of furniture in the upper decks.
The Stands/Tracks. Obviously these are supposed to be the general admission stands. I was tempted to do just Turns/Rerolls with the lowest track for spectator miniatures, but ultimately decided against it because I didn't want people to get confused over what was a turn/reroll marker and what was decoration.
One of the endzone stands... I picture these being private boxes for major sponsors. I'm going to put food vendors between the two stands, hotdog sellers etc.
The first tower, a combo score and dice tower. This needs a bit of work, the dice had a tendency to rebound into the inside of the tower a bit... I know how to fix it, just need the time. The numbers are held on using velcro dots.
And the second tower, the weather goblins (rotating setup stolen shamelessly from Frank). The top section is removable, and inside there is space for a speaker and remote to play BB sounds during the match. It's held on with rare earth magnets.
And here you can see how the parts of the towers come apart so that it can be packed into a box. If not for this, the box wouldn't close.
