New Indoor urban paintball field!!

[jbg00d]

I've heard there are businesses that can make inflatable bunkers in custom shapes and prints (like fallen tree 'snakes' or car prints). I used to think that was pointless because of the expense, but for an indoor field it might be possible.

The main problem I can think of with a washable field is setting up the hvac to dry it out. If your climate is dry that would make it easy to dry but expensive in water. $$

There's that shredded stuff they have on the floor of the rock climbing gyms (tires?). That looks like it would be fun to play in, but real tough to clean. Maybe it's cheap enough to swap out.

Tunnels are neat, but I wouldn't spend too much on them. People realize very quickly that they don't want to be caught in them with no cover. A wide tunnel with small bunkers down each side like you see in starwars battlefront could be worth a team fight though.

If you can find some way to safely get some elevation (ramps and platforms), it usually means more indoors than out, considering the little that we usually get and the short ranges involved.

He was thinking of a combination of both inflatable and built up obstacles for the best of both worlds.

Here's the Turf that's being concidered:

http://www.paintballnetting.com/onlinestore/detail.cfm?ID=59&storeid=1&sessionid=3934583453

That's exactly what I was thinking, tunnels with bunkers built into them that way there would be some cover. The starwars scenes is a good analogy..

Well, I was thinking of maybe using those heavy duty warehouse racks and for the ramps, just modifying the ends by dropping and welding it in place.

The racks are made to hold an enormous amount of weight so they should be fine. they would have to be bolted to the floor of course...

keep the comments coming, we can use them all!

[Thanna]

Having a 'medic' on at the indoor field would probably be a good idea especially if you have immobile obstacles. I can see enthusiastic players running into corners by accident and getting a lil more than the average bumps and bruises; not to mention it might probably lower the insurance for the business.

[Spider-TW]

Having a 'medic' on at the indoor field would probably be a good idea especially if you have immobile obstacles. I can see enthusiastic players running into corners by accident and getting a lil more than the average bumps and bruises; not to mention it might probably lower the insurance for the business.

Yeah, the artificial light in low light games can trick you into running into things you normally wouldn't. Insurance is big on documentaion. I wonder if they would give you credit for having an injury documentation program in place that kept track of the spot on the field, lighting conditions and kind of injury it was, not just that it happened on a certain date.

I was wishing I could play in one of the kids' indoor inflatable play places, but I figured someone would fall on their gun eventually and cause some serious damage to something.

[Freebird]

http://s235.photobucket.com/albums/ee181/hornet5/

there are some pictures of the indoor field i built at the hornets nest in ancramdale NY

https://www.hornetsnestpaintball.com