The Ludus of Bibulus the Flos *19.10.13 The newest member*

[Poiter50]

Oh, come on, fair's fair, how did you do that?! 

Like this?

[Furt]

Oh, come on, fair's fair, how did you do that?!  

I believe you will find it is a filter from Photoshop called "stained glass" texture.

[Poiter50]

Thanks, Furt.

Would make lots of Frescoes for walls & floors.

[pocoloco]

Nice looking gladiators, they look the business... hopefully they will deliver in the arena.

Why did you chaps decide to go all 40mm with this, just for the looks? Isn't the 40mm range quite limited?

[Mason]

40mm?

You had better ask Malamute for the answer to that one.
He started it!

Probably just a 'Oh, look....shiney!' moment.
 

[Malamute]

Nice looking gladiators, they look the business... hopefully they will deliver in the arena.

Why did you chaps decide to go all 40mm with this, just for the looks? Isn't the 40mm range quite limited?

I already had the figures, got them years ago and decided i fnallly wanted to paint them. So no initial financial outlay and the larger scale looks great for single figure games. We also considered 54mm....

Yes, the range is limited so we have bought more to convert. Of the 9 classes I think we are only missing a couple. So no real problems and besides I enjoy a bit of putty pushing.

[pocoloco]

Great reasoning So there are gladiators in 54mm as well? Hmm... 

[Mason]

Yes, the range is limited so we have bought more to convert. Of the 9 classes I think we are only missing a couple. So no real problems and besides I enjoy a bit of putty pushing.

I think we will have ALL the bases covered before long.
This is fun and I have not even played a game yet!

[dodge]

Jim, I think the Gladiator ring will be fab when finished, looks great, the compactness will create an arena of death.

love your gladiators they look great.

dodge

[Ray Earle]

Looking great James. 

So when are you going to have the arena floors available for purchase? 

[Dr DeAth]

I believe you will find it is a filter from Photoshop called "stained glass" texture.

That's correct - I used two filters in Photoshop, Dry Brush then Stained Glass.  The Dry Brush filter simplifies the image details and makes the Stained Glass filter work more effectively for mosaics.

[Elbows]

I think it looks top (and I thought of trying something similar, see if they have it on GIMP). 

[OSHIROmodels]

Got a bit of spare time this evening and so made some more progress on the Ludus 

Ignore the blue, it's just the backing film. The outside of the oval will probably be the extents of the arena proper but I fancy that some normal type buildings will be tacked onto the side.



Now the detail of one of the entrances.




And a little bit of daft inspiration 



There'll be stone seating most of the way round and a 'box' for the hoypaloy to sit in.

cheers

James

[Dr Mathias]

Looks very nice thus far, I like the details on the entrances and the look of the hex floor. I'm going to go with a smallish arena myself I think.

I'm going to try that 'stained glass' mosaic effect on the last gladiator armature for Furt and see if he notices

[Furt]

Ignore the blue, it's just the backing film. The outside of the oval will probably be the extents of the arena proper but I fancy that some normal type buildings will be tacked onto the side.

That will look amazing mate - you never do anything by halves do you. 

Love the little portico entrance. Are those cast lead columns? Where on earth did you get them?

I'm going to try that 'stained glass' mosaic effect on the last gladiator armature for Furt and see if he notices

I've noticed already.