mattycsi
Master Member
Thought I'd share this build, if its in the wrong place feel free to move it along.
At the back end of summer my nephew said he wanted me to build him a model WWE wrestling ring for Christmas.
I explained he'd be just as well off getting the toy version, but he has them already and was adamant that he wanted a built one.
I gave it some thought and looked at what I had lying round and figured I'd give it a go.
Its roughly 1/18 scale. Researching it I found that a WWE ring is usually 18-20 feet square, this one measures in around 18".
I started with a 16"sq artists canvas and built a wooden frame to go around it. I secured the inside of the corners with plastic corner fixings, this gave me a ledge for the ring floor to sit on.
The underside of the canvas had a lip between the wood frame and the back of the material. This allowed me to wedge in some kids craft foam to give it a padded feel.
I managed to wedge some hardboard in behind that for extra support. And to make the whole thing solid I cut a square of mdf to the same size of the interior frame and fixed it in.
I lightly sanded off the exterior corners of the frame to give them a flat angled surface. Then cut some 28mm dowel to length and sanded a flat edge at the same height of the wood frame. Screwed the flat edge of dowell to the frame at every corner and secured further with 28mm pipe saddle clips. I had to build out the side of the frame with hardboard slightly for the clips to meet round the extra distance.
Filled in all the countersunk screw holes and edges of the built up area and other bits for neatness.
I drilled pilot holes into the cornerposts for hook and eye eyelets to be screwed in to hold the ropes.
Did a whole lot of sanding.
Cobbled together some steps out of mdf, cut the angle and drilled out space for the post and filled the front and edges.
Sanded some more.
Primed.
And painted.
Made skirts for the sides out of some black satin material and dark t-shirt transfer paper. The inkjet iron on stuff. Just used wonder web to iron in the hems (sewing is not a skill, I can do it, but it looks like crap).
Got some decorative sheet metal and cut out top plates for the steps, glued them on.
Stapled the skirts on from the inside.
Placed the ring floor into the centre and secured from underneath.
Screwed in the eyelets to the cornerposts.
I got some red bungee cord and tied it onto one eyelet, pulled it as tight as humanly possible and threaded through the others, pulling it tight and tieing it onto the last one. I secured the knots with a blob of superglue.
And voila!
Just got to fashion some pads for the interior corner posts on the rope fixings and I'm done.
Thanks for looking.
At the back end of summer my nephew said he wanted me to build him a model WWE wrestling ring for Christmas.
I explained he'd be just as well off getting the toy version, but he has them already and was adamant that he wanted a built one.
I gave it some thought and looked at what I had lying round and figured I'd give it a go.
Its roughly 1/18 scale. Researching it I found that a WWE ring is usually 18-20 feet square, this one measures in around 18".
I started with a 16"sq artists canvas and built a wooden frame to go around it. I secured the inside of the corners with plastic corner fixings, this gave me a ledge for the ring floor to sit on.
The underside of the canvas had a lip between the wood frame and the back of the material. This allowed me to wedge in some kids craft foam to give it a padded feel.
I managed to wedge some hardboard in behind that for extra support. And to make the whole thing solid I cut a square of mdf to the same size of the interior frame and fixed it in.
I lightly sanded off the exterior corners of the frame to give them a flat angled surface. Then cut some 28mm dowel to length and sanded a flat edge at the same height of the wood frame. Screwed the flat edge of dowell to the frame at every corner and secured further with 28mm pipe saddle clips. I had to build out the side of the frame with hardboard slightly for the clips to meet round the extra distance.
Filled in all the countersunk screw holes and edges of the built up area and other bits for neatness.
I drilled pilot holes into the cornerposts for hook and eye eyelets to be screwed in to hold the ropes.
Did a whole lot of sanding.
Cobbled together some steps out of mdf, cut the angle and drilled out space for the post and filled the front and edges.
Sanded some more.
Primed.
And painted.
Made skirts for the sides out of some black satin material and dark t-shirt transfer paper. The inkjet iron on stuff. Just used wonder web to iron in the hems (sewing is not a skill, I can do it, but it looks like crap).
Got some decorative sheet metal and cut out top plates for the steps, glued them on.
Stapled the skirts on from the inside.
Placed the ring floor into the centre and secured from underneath.
Screwed in the eyelets to the cornerposts.
I got some red bungee cord and tied it onto one eyelet, pulled it as tight as humanly possible and threaded through the others, pulling it tight and tieing it onto the last one. I secured the knots with a blob of superglue.
And voila!
Just got to fashion some pads for the interior corner posts on the rope fixings and I'm done.
Thanks for looking.
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