Judgement Day Challenge - Painting Judge Dredd Miniatures

[Mr Saturday]

This week, to conclude my East Meg One project I give you the main man himself, War Marshal Kazan.



Kazan is a pretty hilarious mini, for a murderous dictator. He's sending everyone to Siberia with that finger. Everyone. The sculpt is a fair bit more buff than the character in the comic, and that moustache...

Apparently Carlos Ezquerra (the artist who worked on the Apocalypse War series) gave him that little moustache as it was quite popular with fascists during the Franco years in Spain. It gave him a chuckle, as it gave me one when I was painting it. The tache, the weird shades, the white crew-cut, he's just fabulous, and manages to totally pull it off. The fact that he's a total ******* helps his cred too. I can't wait to get him on the gaming table.

With Kazan finished, that concludes my East Meg One project. I now have a hearty group of Sovs, enough to give me options when picking a force. There are at least two new Sov minis coming down the line, which I will certainly be adding to the collection once they are released. For now though, here's the whole gang.

[cheetor]

Its the next 25% of the Dark Judge spirit forms from me today, being the big cheese himself, Judge Death.

#21 Judge Death Spirit Form




Of the four Spirit forms, its probably my least favourite sculpt, but its ok all the same. The spirit forms of the Dark Judges are so iconic that I get a kick out of the fact that there even are miniatures to represent them to be honest.



Judge Fires floating head will be along in not too long.* Mr Saturday will be posting next Monday as usual.

[url=https://sho3box.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/judgement-day-21-judge-death-spirit-form/]The Judge Death Spirit Form blog post is here[/url].

Thanks for looking

[Mr Saturday]

This week it's one of the dark brothers, Judge Fire. The dark judges remain my favourite Dredd villians by a mile. This is the Citadel version from the mid 80's. Small, but full of evil.



I wanted Fire to look like a blackened corpse that's burning internally. Fire can be tricky to get right, but I'm pretty happy with the result. Lots of washes and glazes over a bright yellow base was the order of the day, including a white wash for recesses where the heat is most intense. I also painted some highlights on his body to give the impression of heat emanating from within, like a burning coal. This also served to guide the eye to areas that would be lost amongst the black. Fiery toenails for the win.

[cheetor]

#23 Judge Fire Spirit Form



This is the last of my Dark Judge spirit forms painted, which is very satisfying. The flame effect is a little bit comic book, not hugely authentic looking I reckon, but its an adequate swing at a difficult subject all the same.

Oddly, both Mr Saturday and I working on and posting Judge Fire related miniatures consecutively was a coincidence, rather than a plan.



I get a kick out of having that lot painted, Im ten years old again in some small way

The associated blog post is [URL="https://sho3box.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/judgement-day-23-judge-fire-spirit-form/"]here[/URL].

Thanks for looking!

[Mr Saturday]

This week it's the Citadel Judge Fear. There's a bit of a dark judge vibe going on at the moment.



That brings me up to three of the old time dark judges. Pretty obvious who I'll be working on next.

[cheetor]

#25 Rhode Island Red



A mid-eighties Citadel miniature today, the first old Citadel Dredd miniature that I have ever painted actually. *It was a fun model to work on.



The character of "Rhode Island Red" only appeared in a single Dredd story, in the Judge Dredd Annual 1981. *I stuck pretty closely to the palette as defined by the story.



Red appeared in recurring 2000AD promotional images for several years however, making him something of a poster boy for the mutants of the Cursed Earth.

The old Citadel Dredd range was 25mm rather than 28mm, so not all of the range really fit with my other models, so I dont have very many. *For things like mutants and robots and other less scale sensitive types, I am perfectly happy to mix them in.




The blog post is [url=https://sho3box.wordpress.com/2015/10/12/judgement-day-25-rhode-island-red/]HERE[/url] for anyone who wants a look. *I reckon that the subject of next weeks submission from Mr Saturday is fairly predictable, but my next figure for this project will likely be another mutant.

Thanks for looking!

[Mr Saturday]

This week see the final addition to the dark judges, Deadworld's chief judge, Judge Death. He's probably my favourite Dredd villian, and he's dropped enough one liners over the years to show that he's definitely got more of a sense of humour in him than his brothers. It's probably the rictus grin. His recent outing in 'Dreams of Deadworld' portrays him in a much grimmer light, but still, he's ma boy.



This sculpt of Judge Death is TINY. He and his lieutenants are 25mm really, but it's still my favourite sculpt of the dark judge's leader. He was quite straightforward to paint, even if I kept finding parts of the model I'd missed sorting during cleanup. Nothing like taking a file to an almost painted mini. With Judge Death finished, that completes my dark judge project. I'll no doubt pick up the Mongoose spirit forms, and probably the Foundry versions too, but that's for another day. Next up I think it's time I took a crack at an actual judge. Judge Williams, to be precise. Bruce Campbell's block judge.

[cheetor]

#27 Cursed Earth Mutant Quaid



Mr Saturday and I have been chatting and we have decided to expand the scope of this project ever so slightly.* Up until now all of the figures shown have been licensed Dredd figures of one sort or another.* We have decided to give scope to let some of the other suitable figures that we own into this project, as long as they fit in very directly.* Its a thematic tightrope, but I reckon that we can walk it



Quaid here is a rather sorry specimen but a really great little sculpt to paint. Its an old Demonblade minature from the 90s, currently for sale from*[url=http://worldsendpublishing.com/shop/]Worlds End Publishing[/url].

I see the mutants in the Dredd setting less as monsters and more as oppressed "others", so I plan to continue in a vaguely "Spartacus" sort of vein with these mutant freedom fighters for a while.



The figure also has plenty of crossover potential for other sci-fi games, but I tend to mash all my sci-fi up anyway.

[url=https://sho3box.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/judgement-day-27-cursed-earth-mutant-quaid/]The associated blog post is here.[/url]

Mr Saturday has a groovy submission planned for next Monday as far as I know.

Thanks for looking!

[Mr Saturday]

No Judge Campbell this week, he's still en route. In the meatime we have the start of an undercity terrain set. Concreted over and left to decay, the under-city is the abode of mutants, troggies and werewolves. You heard right, werewolves. These pieces are from the Mantic Mars Attacks range, pretty much prefect for urban ruin. This set will get plenty of utility for modern and near future settings. The modular buildings from the same range are bang on too, and will give me a few multi-storey ruins.



I think I'll soon add a chem pit, and start looking about for some terrain mats. There are loads of great ones out, so I'm sure I'll find something to match. Course, I'll eventually need some denizens too, so troggies and werewolves are definitely on the list down the road.

[Rev. Tiberius Jackhammer]

I don't know much about the Judge universe, but this thread's gotten me interested. Lots of good stuff on display, and I enjoy the little histories you give to the various models in terms of manufacturer, era etc.