40k "Combat Arena": Finished!

It's nice to have a project finished and "Combat Arena" is no exception. Because of the coronavirus, an actual gaming event with my friends has to wait, unfortunately. I hope GW supports this and other board games in the future. Rules for a new combatant in the White Dwarf magazine would be nice.
Games like this are a good way to introduce new players to the 40k-universe, in the same way, it happened with me and the game "Star Crusade" back in the '90s.

Such little projects are nice to try out something different and learn new stuff. I learned how to work with oil washes for example. I was asked if there is a lid for the box. Yet, there is none because I have the gaming board on display in my glass cabinet.

This is an impression of how a three players game might look like.

All five combatants for the game.

40k "Combat Arena": Neyam Shai Murad & Daedalus

Here are the last two combatants for the 40k board game "Combat Arena".

40k "Combat Arena": Gotfret de Montbard & Arcadia Madellan

Here are the next two combatants for my "Combat Arena" gaming board - Gotfret de Montbard and Arcadia Madellan. Both miniatures were no fun to paint, to be honest. Therefore, I kept everything pretty simple. Now I am looking forward to the last two characters and the first game with my friends!

40k "Combat Arena": X-101

The first combatant enters the arena.

Who will be next?

3D "Combat Arena" Gaming Board - Part III - Finished!

Well, the arena is ready to play with. I kept the colors deliberately so "dull" because the main role will be played by the fighting characters later.

3D "Combat Arena" Gaming Board - Part II

I had everything prepared and it was time to glue everything together. The tiles came onto the ground and the Necromunda walls on the sides. On top of the walls came a thin wooden plank.

On the printed board are four lethal energy coils I had to represent. I chose the central terminal of a Space Marine drop pod as a starting point and glued all kinds of weapons to it. This should do the job pretty well, don't you think?

Then, I used my Proxxon tool to drill dozens of holes into the floor plates to makes them look a little more realistic. 

3D "Combat Arena" Gaming Board - Part I

Last year I made a "3D pitch" for Blitz Bowl - [Link]. It was not necessarily a 100% true replica of the original game board, because I wanted the playability not to suffer. 

The matches I played on this "3D pitch" were much more immersive and cooler compared to the ones on the flat gaming board. Therefore, it was a natural conclusion to start a similar project for another game: a 3D arena for the game "Combat Arena"!

Unlike the Blitz Bowl playing field, I will build fewer components by myself and instead use more existing parts (like walls from Necromunda: Dark Uprising). To top it off, I will also paint the miniatures and hopefully play a game with my buddies eventually.

  

After giving this ideat some thought, I quickly bought some parts. You can see a matching wooden box (30x30 cm), lasered wooden hexagons and Necromunda wall parts on the picture below. At first, I wanted to build the hexagons myself and stay close to the printed version. But I had problems getting them right and to be honest, I think they look kinda silly.