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[davidr]

Good afternoon guys and gals,

thought id say hi and introduce meself after reading through the forums and getting some valuable insight in to the word of Nerf from across the pond. My partner and myself have held a few nerf wars to raise money for various charities and we are about to open our own arena in Elgin in the North east ish of Scotland.

its been a busy few weeks making scenery up but we are getting there

[Langley]

Welcome to NerfHaven.  We don't usually do introduction threads for new members, but I would like to hear more about the fundraisers and the location you're opening.  Do you have any photos from the events or the arena? I hope it works out for you.

[The2ndBluesBro]

britnerf.co.uk

 

Also, welcome! We don't get many Scots around here. Is your arena similar to Thunderdome? 

Edited by The2ndBluesBro, 17 April 2016 - 08:29 PM.

[davidr]

we have taken on an old church, and converting the main hall into the arena. As far as we know there isn't another one in Scotland, but I may be wrong. the church gives us loads of room, plenty of height and something that little bit different to the normal nerf activities here which is usually run in a school gym hall with blow up inflatable scenery.

if I can work out how to add pictures on here (not very computer savvy) I can put up pictures of our scenery- so far we have the ammo/gun store, which is an old shed that ive rebuit, repainted and just generally made it better which is going to be raised up off the ground by about 4 feet. Ive built a few fences to hide behind and I'm trying to finish off an old style army jeep front end which will have "crashed" through one of the walls. We hope to be open in the first week of May all going well.

 

Just curious- what sort of scenery would you expect/like to see in an arena? I'm still in the building mood for scenery lol- we are hoping to change the scenery every few weeks to keep things fresh

[Meaker VI]

we have taken on an old church, and converting the main hall into the arena. As far as we know there isn't another one in Scotland, but I may be wrong. the church gives us loads of room, plenty of height and something that little bit different to the normal nerf activities here which is usually run in a school gym hall with blow up inflatable scenery.

That does sound cool - do you have different levels? Choir Loft/Pulpit? Even if the church doesn't have those things, adding height to an arena is one of the biggest things you can do to make it really exciting.
 

if I can work out how to add pictures on here (not very computer savvy) I can put up pictures of our scenery-

Click "more reply options" then at the bottom of the page there should be a section called "Attach Files:"
Click "browse..." and find the pics you want, then click the "attach this file" button under that. There is a way to then put them into your post (little picture button up top), but I forget exactly how it's done with attached files. Usually you copy the images' url from the menu bar and paste it into pop up that opens when you click the image button. Langley or another mod/admin can edit them into the post if you can't figure it out but can get them attached.
 

so far we have the ammo/gun store,

FYI: We call them darts/blasters, specifically to differentiate from all the issues people sometimes have with guns. In Scotland, that might or might not be necessary, since as far as I know they're basically banned up there so people might not be so uppity about it.
 

which is an old shed that ive rebuit, repainted and just generally made it better which is going to be raised up off the ground by about 4 feet. Ive built a few fences to hide behind and I'm trying to finish off an old style army jeep front end which will have "crashed" through one of the walls. We hope to be open in the first week of May all going well.
 
Just curious- what sort of scenery would you expect/like to see in an arena? I'm still in the building mood for scenery lol- we are hoping to change the scenery every few weeks to keep things fresh

'Scenery', none really. I'd be fine with plywood boxes and plastic barrels all stacked up. But if you're going all-out, glow in the dark, blacklighting, fog, and mirrors are what I've seen in indoor arenas (laser tag, but it's still something you can't do outside and don't see outside of such a place). If you decide to have a specific theme, have specific scenery to go with it: Zombie Apocolypse? Burned-out civilian buildings and wrecks of civilization everywhere. Army base? Fences, barracks, towers, utilitarian-looking stuff intermingeld with military-looking stuff.

[davidr]

unfortunately at the moment there is just the one level, although that may change over time.

We had thought about changing the theme every so often- starting off with an army theme, then maybe a space theme, zombie theme etc.

 

I had thought about using stacked boxes/crates/drums etc, a few people I spoke to thought scenery might be better although its just going to be a bit of trial and error to start with.

 

Over here it does just seem to be guns and ammo although blasters does sound  a lot better than guns, I think I may have to adopt it lol

 

Ive tried to add a few pictures of one of the bits of scenery- still a work in progress as the fence needs some more paint and the texture added to the base of it