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Hello everyone !

First of all, let me introduce myself : I'm an old french gamer always interested in finding new games, especially the ones with beautiful models I discovered Arena Rex a few month ago, played a few games with proxys and realised it is a really good game ! So I ordered a few models (which I may show you when I'll start painting them ) and imagined the Arena i could build to go with it. This forum is full of bright ideas and I hope you'll like mine... Here are the first steps :

First layer of the arena, with "cracks in the ground" that are also supposed to help put hasards symetricaly :


Second layer of the arena, which is basicaly a 30" circle with "stone marks" :


And finally third and fourth layer to bring some depth and make the thing look cool :p :


The next steps are gonna be sanding, painting, varnishing, adding a few accessories, and well... you'll see if you come back on this thread !

Insanely badass.

Incredibly simple but absolutely fantastic idea! Amazing. I am really looking forward to the progress.

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Sheijtan's ARENA REX Experience

Hi there,

Thank you guys for the first feed back!

Here is now a quick post on the progess made during the week-end :

After all the layers have been glued together, the arena have been completely sanded to get a nice texture :


I had in mind that the floor has to be as flat as possible for future terrain, hasards and models. I'm pretty happy with the result :


And finally, I got to air brush the all surface with a thin layer of ocre paint :


I'm gonna try to work on the arena in the next days, hopefully finishing the table before the end of the week... Stay tuned !

Still like it alot! Looks simple in the making, but the effect you create is really great .

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Sheijtan's ARENA REX Experience

Hello, your arena is amazing ! Dividing the ground is a great idea : I had the same one !

PS : je suis également un joueur français, de l'agglo orléanaise. Nous serons prochainement 2/3 joueurs à avoir des figurines d'arena rex, nous ferons une commande lors des soldes de la gencon.

Fantastic! Love the style, post some pics with your gladiators battling it out!

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"To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."

Time for an update... with no pictures, I didn't get time to take any

Anyway, painting is now finished, and I put the varnish yesterday evening. Everything should be dry for the week-end, to put the final touch. I'll make sure to take some pics this time

Thanks again for your kind words !
G.



hé, un autre frenchie Je suis par contre dans la région lyonnaise, donc ça va probablement être difficile de jouer, mais c'est cool, je me sens moins seul ici !

I look forward to seeing it!

Greetings Gladiators !

The week-end and the beginning of the week have been extra busy, but I can finally get time to show you what could be the finished version of my arena I’m not quite happy about some details, but I’ll get to that later…
For now, please enjoy my first pictures :
This is the full thing, with baize (?) around the arena and aluminium all around the borders :


As you can see, the cracks are now darkened and the all texture looks a lot less uniform:


I also added some little details to get a bit of green in this big stonney arena :


But here is what I’m note really happy about :


I used pigments to have a a more natural look, and I also added some « blood drops » to simulate a place where combats are hard… but the final result is not as good as what I would have expected. So what do you guys think ? Should I erase those aera and get a more uniform look, or should I leave it like that ?

Ps : and as a bonus, the arena is reversible and can be used as a regular board game table