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2015/04/27 08:57:15
Subject: The Judgement Day Project - Painting Judge Dredd Miniatures
It's always nice when you discover someone has the same unhealthy obsessions as yourself. In my case, it's Judge Dredd. Why this has not translated into a massive pile of Judge Dredd minatures is down to many reasons, but none of them a worthy excuse. To that end, myself and another hobbyist/blogger have made an accord. We have decided to embark on a common project called Judgment Day. Each of us will post a Judge Dredd related miniature every two weeks, so between the pair of us we shall be posting a new mini every week. This should lead to a sizable population increase in our respective mega cities.
Will we manage to keep the momentum up? Who knows, but it's going to be a fun time. Each of us is posting to our blog as the project continues, at Mr Saturday's Mumblings and Sho3box.
First up from me, it's Judge Mortis.
I've been reading 2000AD since I was eight years old, and collecting miniatures since I was twelve. Odd then, that this is the first 2000AD miniature I've ever painted. It's nothing less than a crime. I've always been a huge fan of the dark judges, and Judge Mortis, while not as much of a rockstar as Judge Death, is a favourite of mine. It's the insta-rot thing he does I reckon. He sure has a way with thossseee sssinerssss.
his particular incarnation of Mortis is the original Citadel Miniatures version. He's quite small, but has lots of lovely detail. Hell, he even has a dimension jump on his belt, a vital piece of kit for your dark judge about town I feel. I have his brotherssss from the same release in stasis, no doubt they'll make an appearance of a future Judgement Day post down the line. His base is a resin Microart Studios base with some extra debris added.
From now on, expect a Judgement Day post from one of us every Monday. Next week I bring you another old enemy of Mega City One.
My half of the inaugural Judgement Day project post is another icon from the setting, albeit a less threatening one.
Walter is a divisive character, with there being a pretty decent pair of arguments for and against him being part of Dredds world. Like him or not, he is an iconic part of Mega City One.
Walter is a Mongoose Publishing/Warlord miniature. The paint job was very straightforward, but he looks a lot like he does in that comics all the same, which is the goal I guess. The blog post on the figure is here.
mrsaturday will be posting up the next Judgement Day figure on Monday, I will be adding another figure on the following Monday and we will alternate like that until further notice. Thanks for looking.
This week we have the first of what I'm hoping will be a growing faction. An East Meg 1 judge, we'll call him Judge Kariyev. I'm a big fan of the Apocalypse War series, and I do love the look of the East Meg judges. I'm hoping he will soon be joined by some further comrades, all determined to weed out the weakling judges of Mega City 1 and install a more... ordered... rule. This fellow is a Warlord/Mongoose model. He was quite a clean sculpt, needing only very minor cleanup. I re-posed his legs and head slightly to give him a slightly more dynamic post as he steps off the sidewalk. Paint-wise I kept pretty close to the standard sov uniform, which I'm pretty happy with. You be the judge! (See what I did there?)
Its Monday, Judgement Day #3. Its my turn this week.
I recently got a little carried away painting a Construction Crew as part of my ongoing "Sci-fi non-combatants" project. I painted a number of unarmed robots for that, as can be seen in this image.
I copied that scheme for KNU7 (who is armed, so wouldnt fit into that project directly anyway).
I am pleased with how the figure turned out. With KNU7 and a couple of the other robotic Construction Crew elements serving double duty as Renegade Robots, it looks like my second completed faction for Dredd games (after the Justice Department figs that I painted a few years ago) will be robots.
Robots that have broken their programming and proceed to +++ KILL ALL HUMANS +++ is about as sci-fi as sci-fi gets, so I am getting a kick out of them.
Judge Lagransky is my entry for Judgement Day # four. He was quite straightforward, now that I have settled on the colour scheme.
That gives me two basic Sov judges, so for next week I think I'll add something with a little more firepower. I've also been working on adding some Mega City One specific basing elements, but you'll have to wait a bit to see that.
You can see the elderly Citadel Judge Mortis here with the Mongoose Sovs. While he is indeed smaller than the judges, the scale difference isn't THAT bad. Certainly not for gaming.
Back to Sho3box for next week's installment. Ooh, exciting!
Is that Judge about to execute someone for littering?
cheetor wrote:
That is a characterful bunch! It was quite a surprise when I recognised Claptrap and Wall-e. Can I ask where the models come from?
Sadly I haven't read many Judge Dredd comics, but I've always heard good things, and these minis are making me think I've missed out! I'm looking forwards to seeing more.
--Lord of the Sentinels Eternal--
2015/05/21 17:00:11
Subject: Re:The Judgement Day Project - Painting Judge Dredd Miniatures
Is that Judge about to execute someone for littering?
That's a very real possibility.
If you're thinking of giving 2000ad a shot, I would highly recommend it. As well as the weekly comic there's tons of collected editions as well as the Dredd Mega Collection which is coming out at the moment.
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Thanks to everyone who has got involved in discussing this undertaking so far. I am really enjoying the project a lot and the feedback combined with the tag team approach makes it feel different to my other painting projects
Judgement Day #5: Former Judge Rico Dredd
Rico was Judge Joe Dredds clone brother. Like many fictional twins, he turned out to be a bad sort. Joe put Rico away for twenty years hard labour on Titan (where all inmates are bionically modified to perform the required ). Rico did his twenty, came back to Mega City One to get revenge and Joe killed his clone brother in a shootout.
The model is a nice clean design that matches the various comic book interpretations of the character throughout the years pretty well, without being slavish to it. The scheme that I painted the model in did similar: its not an exact match but it is pretty recognisable to anyone with an interest in the Dredd strip I think.
My next model (up in a fortnight) will be another generic, rather than named "historical" MC1 type. Its Mr Saturday up next Monday though, Im not sure what he has planned.
Great job on Rico, he's one of the nicer models from the Dredd range in my opinion, and you've done him justice. (Did you like that? Little judge pun there.)
These are all looking excellent, and make me want to get back to painting my huge pile o' Dredd minis.
In the photos of Rico on the street, and the earlier one of Walter, where did all the other robots come from? Are they some of Mongoose's Paranoia 'bots? Older Dredd minis?
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2015/05/27 11:44:45
Subject: Re:The Judgement Day Project - Painting Judge Dredd Miniatures
cheetor wrote: Rico was Judge Joe Dredds clone brother. Like many fictional twins, he turned out to be a bad sort. Joe put Rico away for twenty years hard labour on Titan (where all inmates are bionically modified to perform the required ). Rico did his twenty, came back to Mega City One to get revenge and Joe killed his clone brother in a shootout.
AndrewGPaul wrote: These are all looking excellent, and make me want to get back to painting my huge pile o' Dredd minis.
Thanks. The piles of unpainted Dredd figures that Mr Saturday and I each had was a driving motivator behind this project. With both of us enthusiastic fans of the comic it has been a cooperative, fun project so far
{quote]In the photos of Rico on the street, and the earlier one of Walter, where did all the other robots come from? Are they some of Mongoose's Paranoia 'bots? Older Dredd minis?
None are the Mongoose Paranoia robots, although three of that old range have been repackaged as Dredd "Mini-bots" recently. They are nice, I would like to get my hands on the other Paranoia robots.
The robots shown are largely OOP Megaminis. The Claptrap is OOP too, from a now defunct provider. WALL-E details are in an above post. The ones in this shot are the Megaminis:
I quickly painted and dipped them a few years ago during my painting minimalist phase, but I recently went back and added a few more highlights here and there. They have a good MC1 vibe I think.
This week Judge Alexandrov and his Krashnikov 97 carbine join my Sovs, laying down sheets of East Meg 1 justice for the proletariat.
I like this sculpt, the gun has a nice heft to it, though I think he could do just adjusting the strap to take a tad more of the weight. Alexandrov has a little more Dredd-centric base work done, with a smashed Mega City One judge helmet at his feet, (from the Mongoose SJS judge's base). I have three Sovs complete now, not too far from a playable force.
Thanks Accolade, why wait? Room in the Big Meg for all. Well, less than there was, what with the Apocalypse War, Day of Chaos and so on, but still pretty roomy.
Another renegade construction robot today, something of a companion piece to KNU7 from a few weeks ago.
The scheme also fits in with my sci-fi Construction Crew from my sci-fi non-combatants project.
Somewhat unexpectedly, Renegade Robots have become the second faction for the Dredd setting that I have ready to game with (after MC1 Justice Department). They sort of just appeared to some extent, without me really planning it much.
More photos and the like in the blog post. I think that it will be a flesh and blood MC1 perp next time. Mr Saturday will put up the next update first, next Monday,
This week Judge Borzilov steps forth ready to incinerate those who dare oppose the Dictatorat.
I like this sculpt. He carries the oddest looking flamethower I've ever seen. Those gloves of his must be pretty well insulated. It looks very Carlos Ezquerra, organic and no straight lines anywhere, but to my knowledge he never drew one for the Apocalypse War series. I wanted to give the hint that it gets a lot of use, so I gave it some heat damage with sepia, purple and finally blue washes the closer to the end of the barrel I got. I highlighted the very edge with silver to show where it has burned clean. I also adjusted his legs to suit the base and give him a tad more movement. Borzilov brings me up to four Sov judges, almost ready for play...
Absolutely superb, every single mini is just perfect. I'm also a huge fan of Dredd and have the rulebook for this fabulous game along with some justice dept. models, trying to find players near Chester UK to actually get some games in now!
2015/06/21 23:54:58
Subject: Re:The Judgement Day Project #9 Benny the Bat-glider
A perp with a batgliding suit and a big moustache today.
Bat-gliding is a common pastime in Mega-City One. Like many of the earlier sculpts from the Judge Dredd range, this design comes straight from one of the Daily Star strips.
Mega City One is defined less by the Judges than by the behaviour of the citizens and as such models like this sum up the setting rather nicely I think.
Mr Saturday will be along tomorrow with his next Judgement Day submission, but in the mean time I thought that I would put up a few photos of the Apocalypse War game that we got played yesterday
Senior Judge Gogol is my latest submission for Judgement Day. I like the caped look to the Sov senior judges, and this guy looks ready to order wave after wave of his own men to their deaths.
He's already been at work ordering his judges into the fray. You can check out the first battle report below.
Thanks Pacific! Its the terrain set that I have been promising myself since I was a kid, so its great to have got it to this stage now. Lots more MC1 terrain in different stages of assembly due over the next 6-12 months.
Meanwhile...
#11 Judge Shaw
With gaming against Mr Saturdays invading East Meg One forces being a thing now, I decided to paint a Judge equipped with one of the iconic weapons used in "The Apocalypse War" storyline, the stub gun.
I rushed the painting a little bit due to other commitments. It bugs me a little, but its adequate.
This week I'm throwing up a cheeky submission for Judgement Day. The very tiny Sov satellat. This was originally intended to be an addition to a larger submission, but there you go. I could bore you with various excuses about life annihilating hobby time over the last week or two... so that's pretty much what I'll do.
Taking excuses as read, let's look at the wee satellat. The satellat is most associated with agent Orlock, East Meg One's finest assassin/saboteur/master of espionage, and instigator of the block mania outbreak that preceded the Apocalypse War. This little robot has gotten Orlock out of a couple of scrapes over the years, with a loud BLLLLEEEEEEEE! to warn out approaching danger.
This little fella has already seen action on the tabletop, causing much irritation to Cheetor's Judges in our initial skirmish. Speaking of which, the Sovs are now at league strength. Here's a shot of the whole squad.
There are several more members of the league to be added yet, but it's pretty satisfying getting them to a gaming size force. More (and most likely more than a tiny robot head) Judge Dredd fun from Cheetor next week.
