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Mongoose/Foundry Judge Dredd Miniatures: Judge Anderson, Judge DeMarco, Judge Slocum & SJS Judges

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Mongoose Foundry Judge Dredd Miniatures: Judge Anderson, Judge DeMarco, Judge Slocum & SJS Judges

It’s been a couple of years since I painted any of my collection of Judge Dredd miniatures, and while rooting around in a tub of figures looking for some other things, I found this set of five, cleaned, primed, glued to bases, and even with most of the work on their bases already done – given that this last month’s challenge from Dave Stone’s is Apocalypse Me where he very explicitly mentions that Mega-City Judges qualify – how could I resist putting in the work to finish them off?

Mongoose Judge Dredd Miniatures: Judge Anderson, Judge DeMarco

I suspect that I may have even started work on these for a previous Apoocalypse Me, or potentially as a direct followup from those last few JD figures I painted, as finishing something often has the effect on me of a burst of enthusiasm to start more of the same – though typically not quite enough enthusiasm to get the new batch of models finished! First up we have Psi-Judge Anderson and Judge DeMarco. Both of these models are from the range that Mongoose put out awhile back.

Mongoose Judge Dredd Miniatures: Judge Anderson, Judge DeMarco

I do have another figure of DeMarco in her P.I. trenchcoat, but I couldn’t find it, so I’ll get to that version later and just try to match her hair as best I can (not that women ever change their hair colour or shade).

Judge Dredd Miniatures, Mongoose SJS Judges, Foundry Judge Slocum

The other three models are all SJS Judges – the extra-large model is Foundry’s model of Judge Slocum, who you can read a lot more about here, in Sho3box’s rather excellent post from 2011. The other two models are again from Mongoose. I’ve seen SJS judges with both a red tunic trim as well as the cold grey. Being characters from 2000AD, it’s not surprising for smaller elements to have been coloured in more than one colour over the years – just look at Judge Knee/Elbow pads for example – are they green or gold? Yes!

Judge Dredd Miniatures, Mongoose SJS Judges, Foundry Judge Slocum

The female SJS Judge is quite a bit smaller than all of the other models, so she ended up with a 25mm base rather than a 32mm base. With Anderson, DeMarco and Slocum I went with larger bases to “protect” the metal models from potential gameplay bumps and paint chips due to their overhanging arms. The other SJS Judge could have gone either way with his base, so I just went with the majority size from this batch.

Anywho -I know that Dave includes the Judge Dredd universe amongst those that qualify for Apocalypse Me, so in these ones go! I’ve got a couple more posts to come for this challenge, but I’ve been ill for much of the past two weeks, and the photography area has been clogged by a game of Zombicide left in progress for much of that time, so I’ve only been able to get out there to make the photos this morning.

And for good measure, I’m going to keep throwing in my palette for the green and the gold in here for my own future reference! 🙂

I AM THE LAW! Mongoose Emerald Isle Judge “MacO’Conihoonihan” #Fembruary 2022

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Mongoose Publishing Emerald Isle Judge "MacO’Conihoonihan"

Following on from the recent set of old-school Citadel Judges I painted as part of Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got challenge when he mentioned that some people had decided to paint Judge Dredd models as well, I thought I’d keep going with a few more of my own. This Emerald Isle judge hails from the sadly short-lived Mongoose Publishing range of Judge Dredd figures. And.. uh. Huh. I might have something to do in uploading some images to the Lost Minis Wiki… Anywhoo… ss the other Judges I painted were started and inspired by that challenge, Old Judge MacO’Conihoonihan here was painted as a model for Fembruary. I’m not entirely sure if Alex over at Leadbaloony is “officially” running Fembruary this year, but regardless, I’ve been working on some models for it.

Not that we should need an “event” to paint female models of course, but given that I paint all sorts of stuff anyway it’s a good chance to make a specific pivot to paint a few more models that I wouldn’t have usually worked on – and a good chance to make myself complete some others that have sat half-painted for some time – some of those in later post(s)!

Mongoose Publishing Emerald Isle Judge "MacO’Conihoonihan"

While I feel like I’ve read a lot of Judge Dredd stories over the years, given the sheer amount written and published over the decades I also haven’t read a lot of the Dredd stories. That “the” is pretty important to distinguish the meanings between those two sentences! And among those that I have never read are the stories dealing with the Emerald Isle, or Ireland, or Eire, or, perhaps in this case – Oireland as so elequently put by Sho3box when he shared this same model in a post some time ago. If you love cringe-inducing “Oirishness”, please do take the time (2mins) to watch the below “highlight” video of Becky Lynch’s first match in WWE/NXT (WWF for you old-timers!) Make sure you also have the volume up!

It’s got Foighting Oirish! It’s got Riverdance! It’s got Diddly-Diddly-Diddly! More cringe than you could cringe a cringe at. Thankfully, old Becks has come a looooong way since then.

I also took the name of Judge MacO’Conihoonihan from Sho3box’s post – which could be his own piss-take, or certainly well could be a legit name of a Judge Dredd character!