Judgement Day Challenge - Painting Judge Dredd Miniatures

[Mr Saturday]

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 [URL="http://mrsaturdaysmumblings.blogspot.ie/"]Mr Saturday's Mumblings[/URL] and [URL="https://sho3box.wordpress.com/"]Sho3box[/URL].

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.

[cheetor]

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 [url=https://sho3box.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/judgement-day-1-walter-the-wobot/]here[/url].



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.

[Mr Saturday]

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?)

[cheetor]

Thats lovely. The colours are beautifully vibrant and "comic book"-y.

[Darren Richardson]

Lovely work, we really need more Dredd on these forums!

And I agree, Mortis is certainly the most creepy of the Dark Judges, I remember first being introduced to him.... that poor guy with the glasses :urgh:

It's also nice to see a mix of old and new miniatures, I do wonder how they look in scale size.

[Mr Saturday]

Thanks! The old Citadel Judge Dredd models are quite small compared to the Foundry or Mongoose models. That said, some models still work. Mortis is about a head shorter than the East Meg judge, but then, Mortis is a shriveled corpse...

[cheetor]

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.


[url=https://sho3box.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/judgement-day-3-knu7/]The blog post for KNU7 is here[/url].

[Mr Saturday]

Judge Lagransky is my entry for [URL=http://"http://mrsaturdaysmumblings.blogspot.ie/2015/05/judgement-day-post-4-judge.html"]Judgement Day # four[/URL]. 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 [URL=http://"https://sho3box.wordpress.com/"]Sho3box[/URL] for next week's installment. Ooh, exciting!

[Wolfshade]

Awesome, loving the work

[cheetor]

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.



The blog post for Rico is [url=https://sho3box.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/judgement-day-5-rico-dredd/]HERE[/url].

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.