Cheetors Judge Dredd Stuff: Emerald Isle Judge 16/03/14

[Colonel Tubby]

Love your Judges - that yellow is really effective.

Must dig out my Foundry judges - thats for the inspiration!

[Hawkeye]

Terrain too? Cool! Mega-City One would be a nightmare to build (I'm talking about a small section here, of course), buy it would look EPIC!

Looking forward to the rest of your Judges and Perps, as you paint them!

[cheetor]

I got a pair of Holocaust Judges painted over the weekend and a couple of (dodgy) photos taken today.




A couple more photos are on my blog.


They were a fun change of pace from the regular Judges and good practice for painting some Lawmasters once Mongoose release the retooled version.

Comments and criticisms all welcome, as ever

Back to painting some more familiar Judges again now.

Terrain too? Cool! Mega-City One would be a nightmare to build (I'm talking about a small section here, of course), buy it would look EPIC!

It would, but my efforts will have a healthy dose of practicality inserted.  More details about that once I have more research and planning done for it.  Its all about the miniatures for the time being

[Dr.Falkenhayn]

yes,very nicely painted again!  :)The Visor Effect came out very well and nice Details on the Police Badge 

[inkwell]

Well done!

[Gluteus Maximus]

Great work on them. The highlighting on the armour is spt-on.

You should have no worries turning out some lovely Lawmasters - as an old biker, they were always one of my favourite creations in JD 

[cheetor]

Thanks again for the feedback guys

You should have no worries turning out some lovely Lawmasters - as an old biker, they were always one of my favourite creations in JD 

Dredd is a biker cop through and through.  Any miniature representation of the MC1 Justice Dept has to include a few Lawmasters.  The impossible look of the huge tyres and styling just makes it even more appealing to me

Mongoose have been threatening to include rules that incorporate Lawmaster Perp chases into the their Judge Dredd Miniatures Rules.  I think that gaming that with miniatures that I have painted will be a lifetime hobby highlight... if it materialises.

Painting a 28mm Lawmaster or two will scratch an itch that I have had for over twenty years

[Dr Mathias]

Beautiful work on all the figures you've shown so far, looking forward to seeing more. I've got quite a pile of Judge Dredd figures to work on myself

[Argonor]

That Holocaust Mk. II is far too recognizable as a re-worked SST Grizzly suit (or the other type), otherwise nice minis.

I hope to get a few judges painted this summer, but time is... restricted.... 

[Dentatus]

Excellent brushwork and I love power armor in general, but those poses seem odd to me.

[cheetor]

That Holocaust Mk. II is far too recognizable as a re-worked SST Grizzly suit

Which really only matters if the viewer is familiar with the Grizzly though.  Players unfamiliar with the death throes of the SST range would be none the wiser

Actually I think that the styling of the Grizzly helmet to look like the Manta tank turret (which in turn looks like a stylised Judge helmet) was a great move.  The addition of the screwy (but very in keeping with the setting) big boots brings the figure quite nicely into the Dredd-verse if you ask me

I hope to get a few judges painted this summer, but time is... restricted.... 

I had some of these Judge figures in the to-do pile for nearly ten years.  You can never tell which project will bubble to the top next.

Excellent brushwork and I love power armor in general, but those poses seem odd to me.

I agree about the poses actually.  The HS1 is sort of standing there and doing nothing.

The HS2 is a multi part kit but when I got bought it from the Mongoose stand at Salute it came straight from their display cabinet already pre-assembled by their staff.  I dont think that I would have spread the HS2 figures arms out so widely if I had assembled it personally.

Thanks for the feedback

[Argonor]

I had some of these Judge figures in the to-do pile for nearly ten years.  You can never tell which project will bubble to the top next.

Exactly - I just shoved in about 50 old 2nd Ed. 40K plastic orks and gretchin at the top of the list for a splash-on and trying out Warpath (and no, it's NOT a fantastic set of rules, but I want to try it out, OK?  )

I agree about the poses actually.  The HS1 is sort of standing there and doing nothing.

I think a razor saw, a drill, some wire, and glue might fix that? Looks like the right arm coul be re-posisioned in a firing stance? Not that I would like to experiment on a figure that big/expensive... 

[cheetor]

I think a razor saw, a drill, some wire, and glue might fix that? Looks like the right arm coul be re-posisioned in a firing stance?

No doubt, but I try to avoid that sort of thing as much as possibly these days.

Although I have hundreds of converted miniatures, I rarely engage it that sort of thing now for two main reasons: 1) it slows down my output quite severely and 2) because my group doesnt play in any sort of tournament scene where seeing the same miniatures over and over again happens, we tend to be happy with most of our figures off-the-peg now: they dont need to be converted to stand out.

Having said all that I do have a Wally Squad (undercover) Judge conversion in the offing   The reason for converting that is to try and make the figure look more like a character from the Dredd strip though, rather than to remedy a bland pose.

If I get around to a second HS1 suit at some point in the future I will likely do some rearranging to it to make it unique.

[Hawkeye]

Whoa! Those Holocaust suits are brilliant! Fantastic work. Completely understand about putting models before terrain, as far as priorities are concerned, but I will wait as patiently as possible nonetheless to see what you do with MC1 when you get to it. Based on the models you produce for this thread, and all your others, it's going to look cool.
Keep it coming - this is a wonderful thread.

[cheetor]

I managed a full days gaming using Mongooses Judge Dredd Miniature Game rules a while back.  My thoughts on them along with some photos of the pretty primitive looking games that we played are here.  
Synopsis: I like the rule set.

Suitably spurred on by enthusiasm for gaming Dredd I set about painting some more figs, shown below.  Click the linked names beneath for info on why I choose that particular variant of the uniform scheme etc.





Chief Judge Cal and Deputy Chief Judge Fish




Med Judge




SJS Judge Slocum




Street Judge




Senior Judge Hershey
(I dont know what the grey dot on her hair is.  Its gone from the figure now anyway)




The above shot is all of my Justice Department so far.  Not as technically spectacular as some of the works of art that crop up around here pretty often, but I am very happy with them as a gaming figures.  I also get a kick out of painting up my own take on characters from a lifelong interest.


Finally, this guy below is a "Jimp", a Judge impersonator (and one of the reasons why I altered the title of the thread).



Jimp

I am very close to finishing some Dark Judges and will put them up next.  Progress is slow though, loads of other real life stuff is slowing output.