| Building a paintball field from scratch isn’t that easy | | | | The aspect of visibility is very important when creating |
| because the range of customers can vary and while | | | | a paintball field. Paintball markers (even with a flat line) |
| some of them will enjoy the setup, others will not be | | | | have limited range. A very basic rule regarding visibility: |
| very keen on how the field was constructed. | | | | never pick a field in which you can see farther that |
| Depending on what kind of field you are interested in | | | | you can shoot. It is a very logical rule as what kind of |
| making and who your target customers or friends are | | | | strategy can you plan on a field like this? How can you |
| will determine a lot of that – the designing of the | | | | flank? No fun in this at all. |
| paintball field. | | | | The natural field barriers work better in comparison |
| To simply start laying a paintball field, grab a pen and | | | | with manmade bunkers – large trees, streams, trails, |
| paper or you could use Google SketchUp where you | | | | hills and tall grass. The more you mix them up, the |
| can find ideas of how a commercial paintball field looks | | | | better. If you are planning on setting up multiple bases, |
| like and why not grab a few ideas for your own field. | | | | you need to make sure that your base locations are |
| First and most important, you need to know the | | | | picked up correctly and balanced well. |
| state’s laws and regulations regarding how to open | | | | If you consider yourself a tactical player, check into |
| a paintball field for commercial purposes. You will need | | | | some old rundown buildings in your area. This could |
| operation permits, annual inspections plus insurance as | | | | also be a multipurpose field for air soft players. Some |
| well as liability. | | | | may consider that the challenge of indoor combat is |
| Keep in mind that these are requirements for | | | | unique so if you are considering and old and |
| commercial paintball fields and the regulations for a | | | | abandoned building, make sure that you thoroughly |
| private personal field vary greatly upon location so | | | | inspect it with a main focus on asbestos. Many of the |
| make sure to check the laws of the areas in which | | | | old buildings available may have asbestos in them. Do |
| you plan on building the field. Leaving the legal | | | | not find out later after you bought the building that you |
| department behind us, you will now need to start to | | | | have to tear it down, no fun in that. |
| make an idea about how the paintball field should look | | | | All things considered, building a paintball field is not very |
| like. If you are looking for a woods ball field you need | | | | easy but with intensive research and implementing |
| to remember to try to keep some of the natural looks | | | | some of you personal preferences based on |
| of the area – large trees, small hills – the more | | | | experience, a fun paintball field is possible with little |
| natural the look of the paintball field, the more real the | | | | money. Have fun building and using your own paintball |
| sport will be. | | | | field. |
| This style of paintball field hinders long range visibility. | | | | |