Arena Rex- Ywain, Valen, and Legio XIII

Awwww yeah! More Arena Rex! These guys are hot off the presses from Gencon. My friend dropped by the Red Republic booth and picked up Ywain and Valen for me. The completion of these two puts my Legio XIII ludus at 5 gladiators, which is about the size they recommend for full-on play. I'm excited to get the other ludii up to this level and get some games in!

Hagal- Arena Rex

So, I stole some time yesterday and cranked out Hagal for my Zephyri. This puts me up to 3 painted ludii I can field, each with 2 normal based models and one big guy. I'm pretty happy with the way my Zephyri are looking. I can't wait to get some color on the boards and get some games in on them.
Also, as you can see in the background, there's been progress on my Fire Raptor, but that's a whole separate post.

More Arena Rex Board Progress!

Well, after a solid Sunday's work, we have quite a bit done on our Arena Rex boards. Our DirtPit is just about ready for paint, and we started work on our Henge board. We're pretty stoked about the progress on these guys. I can't wait to get some color on them and start getting some games in!

The pit board has the tried and true "dig the foam out and stick tooth-picks in it" technique. We made the also tried and true planking to cover them. They are also small enough that if we want, we can cover them with dueling rings.

The henge is in it's infancy, but you can see the scale we're looking at.

Arena Rex boards!

So, since Arena Rex is such an awesome game, the crew and I have decided to build a couple arenas that are just as awesome. We've got several planned. I can't take too much credit for anything other than concept and some sourcing at this point, as my good friend has done a lot of the heavy hitting on these guys so far. Particularly finding the Playmobil arena on ebay for a reasonable price, because that's not easy!
So, first thing we're doing is the "easy" premade arena on a sand style board. We've also got another board that we're calling the "Dirt Pit" board. This is going to represent the Legio XIII's home turf, out where the Roman Legions are making camp. This will be mostly wooden log style walls and earthworks.
We plan on two more boards. One will be a Zephyri board that will have standing stones and totem poles, and another sand board that will be making tons of use of a bunch of the Hirst Arts Egypt molds.
Everything but the playmobil arena will be 24x36. This is the best use of the materials we had on hand, which was a bunch of 2' wide insulation foam (which has been shot to hell with airstoft guns and need to be filled). 24x24 is a great size for small games of Arena Rex, and we can play the long way if we have more models on the board.

Anyway, here's our beginning photos!