Midwest Booth - Live Fire

[Fallen]

If you made it to Planet Comicon or C2E2 this year you saw the amazing work that's been done so far between our Longsword and Harvest Battalions to build a modular booth based on the Live Fire map. With the idea started under NobleofDeath16 even going so far as to commission a forge map be created with various layouts based on the typical sizes of booths we're likely to have at conventions.

Link: 405th Midwest Booth Design

First iteration was planned and premiered at Planet Comicon 2025 with this basic layout and some design decisions.

Design:

Planet 2025 Layout


C2E2 2025 Layout



Some Reference Images Used



Builds:

For the walls themselves that do not form a room, 2x4 framing with a horizontal center crossbar faced with 1/4" plywood. It's suggested to make the top and bottom go the full width of the board and cut down the verticals so that if someone slides the panel you don't have a joint directly on the ground.


For paint we used the following colors, Behr High Speed Access and Behr Shadow Mountain were combined in the same tray and painted in a crisscross pattern to make the faux concrete look.
Light Gray: Behr High Speed Access
Dark Gray: Behr Shadow Mountain
Green: Behr Cypress Vine

Faux Concrete Painting - it'll look weird at first; trust the process.

The wall stands were built using 2x3 material and stand 72" tall


I'll go into more details on the columns and barriers in a subsequent post, but the columns are presently designed to be built 12.25" wide by 8" deep including the facade before applying the 3D printed caps. There's also an L-shaped variant for placing on the corners of any rooms built.



Barriers are a fairly simple build but it is suggested to bevel the angle edges.

 

[Parzival]

Are the 3d printed assets of the booth(s) that were designed available in a specific place?

 

[Fallen]

I have more photos from the Planet build, but I want to also invite Skidmorpheus to share his process building the room that was at C2E2 and any build instructions to help others do the same.

Here's some photos from the Longsword build days as it all came together.


Specifically to call out the UNSC panel wall the wall itself is the same framing as the others and used cedar siding panels painted in the green Behr Cypress Vine color as a base and a pure white for the emblem. We just used a projector to project the eagle logo and traced it.



Figure you could use a photo of the labels for the paint colors. I only took photos of the samples I tested before we actually bought gallon sizes of them for the concrete colors.





We did tape off and paint a design with the green as well which I have to say I really like how that worked out. We also added 2 2ft x 8ft panels that came out at a 90 degree from the edges of the walls for added stability at Planet.

 

[Fallen]

Are the 3d printed assets of the booth(s) that were designed available in a specific place?

Yep. I plan to share those when I do the more specific post for the columns and barriers. I need to adjust the models and turn them into build plans.

 

[Skidmorpheus]

Great write up so far! Did you want me to add to this post the room construction? If you prefer I can create my own build thread for the harvest room.