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We Are Now Open!
As we built the place, we made updates to this page... just for ole' time sake, we thought we'd leave this page up so you can see the steps we went through to create the nicest, most professional Indoor Paintball Field in the area. To see our newest updates, check out our What's new Pages!
Here is a shot from the street of the building. You can see we are nearly finished with the outside painting. And we just got the new parking lot in.
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 | So now let's take a look inside. This angle is from up in the front (actually, kinda from over the bathroom area) and you can see some of the staging area (where the stacks of sheet rock are), the parents lounge framed up, and the framing of the wall between the staging area and the field. Notice the large openings in that wall for viewing windows so you can watch the action when not playing, and the door is dead center leading onto the field.
The field behind the framing is the main X Ball field that measures 80 x 150. |
| This next shot is from the back of the X Ball field looking back forward towards the staging area, bathrooms and office area. We have some white tarp on the walls, and the nets should be up in the next week. |  |
 | This shot is from the back of our scenario room looking forward. This is going to be our Wild West Town with a complete Audio / Visual system, covered wagons, Saloon, and more! You can read more about the field by checking out the Our Facility Link.
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Update July 19
And speaking of the Saloon... We started working on it today! Should finish that tomorrow and get going on the Jail! |  |
 | And while we were working on the back room, the contractors finished all the framing, got the bathrooms inspected and the plumbing is done, inspected and green tagged. |
| And with the metal done - they started hanging the sheet rock. Electricians will be in tomorrow, and should be closing up the walls next week. |  |
Update July 21
Got our Covered Wagon done, and the Jail House is getting finished. At the same time, electricians are running wire up front. Progress! | 
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Update July 22
Well, the last few days, we've been working like gang busters! We got electric going in, and sheet rock going up - but I didn't bother shoot any pictures of that because it just looks like construction. Our netting should be in this next week, and we should be getting more inspections done this next week as well. So we're closing in!
Thought I'd post a few pictures of some of the bunkers we're building in the back "Wild West Room". Here is a shot of the Saloon now that it's done - stained, and finished! |  |
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And we build a well complete with an old pulley and bucket. And
the back side is open so you can circle into it and be protected
from 3 sides... Of course, it is kinda' a suicide move - but if
you've got the guts, it is a cool bunker. |
| And what western town would be complete without an undertaker. So we've got an "ole' pine box" coffin. And it's a nice one! In fact, someone already moved in! |
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And of course you always see some burlap sacs in the old movies - so we got a bunch of sacks staked up that makes a great bunker!
Still working on more - got to make our watering trough this week, and a few others. We're pretty excited on how it's looking - and we should just be a few weeks out! |
Update July 24
The coffin we built the other day proved to be a very popular look, but we were kind of bothered that it was just a low bunker, so we added another standing up to give us lazy guys who don't like to crawl around, enough room to stand up behind the coffin bunkers. |  |
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And while we're working inside, the guys are getting some stuff done outside. Most of our sign is up... the neon GatSplat Logo. Now in the next day, the big "INDOOR PAINTBALL FIELD" sign will be up. |
| And what Wild West town would be complete without a Gallows?! So down next to the Jail, we've got a 6 foot by 4 foot Gallows that will be a fun bunker to play from, or shoot at! That's Kyle in there putting the finishing touches on the Gallows... Hope he doesn't try it out to make sure it works good!! |  |
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Check out our new baby... the Paintball Golf Cart! This guy drags around our turf cleaner so we can pick up the paintballs throughout the day, keeping our fields clean. And there is one of the guys hosing off the field right now! |
Update July 28
Well, I realize these first two pictures may not do much for you...
To you it probably just looks like sheet rock. But to me, this looks
like we got our green tags from the inspectors on all the plumbing,
framing, and electrical, and we can close up the walls, tape, texture,
paint in the next week. The top shot is of the area where the offices,
bathrooms, range, etc are located. The other shot shows the parents
lounge and the wall that separates the staging area from the field.
And now you can see the door that leads on to the X ball field. |
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 | Well, we needed a snake, but they did not have too many inflatable bunkers in the 1800's, so we decided to make a zig zag split rail fence. Each board you see is 8 feet long, so this covers a fair amount of territory, and stands about 3 feet high. This should be a great bunker to play from as it's right on the 50 yard line, and you can get some very good angles to other bunkers from this vantage point. I'm sure this will be a hotly contested bunker for both sides in every game. |
Update Aug 4
We've gotten a bunch of stuff done in the last few days, that really
don't photograph well. For example, we got in the Satellite dish
for the big flat screen in the parents lounge... but what... put
up a picture of a dish? Guess not. We also have more skim coats
of the sheet rock - they will texture today, and maybe start paint
today or tomorrow. Another picture now still looks like sheet rock
under construction. Figured I'd wait until some paint goes on to
show it.
We do have a few new things we can show. Check out the Whiskey Barrels we got in. These are actual Kentucky Whisky barrels, that I shipped in from Kentucky. You could actually still smell the whiskey on them. They really add a cool look, and also a few of these stacked up makes a nice small bunker.
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And we got most of the netting in, and that is starting to go up. As you look at the picture, you'll see the netting is white. This is special stuff that is flame retardant for indoor use, and being white, it enhances the lighting on the field instead of knocking it down like the black netting does. Unfortunately, the manufacturer is behind on making this special stuff, and we don't have enough to finish up yet. The rest is supposed to be in to us in about a week - but we should have no problem keeping busy until then. |
| And we started painting up front. We were not sure which color to go with... so we went with them all! We think it will look good when it's done. But I thought buying Enron stock was a great move... Oh heck... a little product, a few posters - who will even see the walls?! |  |
Update August 10
We're getting closer day by day. We are completely done with the paint (or perhaps I should say paints) in the front, and today we built the counters where we'll check out gear and sell products. And in the second picture, you can see a shot under the counter. We built a rack under each counter that holds the rental guns, and there is ample room for the masks down there as well!
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 | And we've nearly finished netting the X ball field. Here you can see Bear working on the bottom of the net for the dead zone that runs along one side of the field. He's that round speck in the left hand side of the photo - kneeling down zip tying net. (Kinda' lets you know how big the place is!) |
And now the tempered glass is in for the viewing windows between
the staging area and the field. There are a lot of other things
that got finished up that you you might not notice, like our burglar
alarm and fire alarm system is all installed. If you look at the
wall next to the door you can see the fire alarm strobe mounted
on the wall. And the T1 line and regular phone lines are hooked
up and working, and we got in the net for the back and we're starting
to hang that. The outlets and switches are all wired in now, so
instead of flipping breakers on and off... we have switches! What
a concept! And of course, the clean up of the construction is a
daily occurrence.
With school starting, we're losing a few guys who have been doing a lot of the work getting things together, but we still have some other guys, and are still looking for some other guys that can help out during the week. It's taken longer than we anticipated, but as the pictures probably show - the end is in sight! Hopefully another week or 2 and we can start having players in here!
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Update August 11
Just a few quick notes today... we now have toilets! It may not seem like
much to you, but there are a couple of bushes behind our building that
are suddenly very happy! One of my guys pointed out that although we have
toilets... there isn't any toilet paper. I explained that's because we
don't tolerate wiping on our field! ;-)
And we got the carpeting in our parents lounge and behind the counter, got the compressor wired up, the bank system mounted and got a bunch of stuff cleaned up. The cool thing is I just got a call from our Paint Distributor that let us know that they were making our field paint today! It is being shipped to us in the next week or so - as soon as it cures and gets bagged, boxed, and tossed on a truck!
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Update September 1
It's time! We're not done with everything we want to do... we will still be making some minor changes and improvements, but we are ready to open. We got most everything complete, and did a test run with a group of 20 folks from Best Buy this last week. Here's a shot of one of their folks in the X Ball Field.
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 | And here's the group getting ready to start a game in the Wild West town. And below that you can see them in the staging area.
We'd like to invite you to come on down and check out the place yourself.
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