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! 🙂

Dreadtober 2024: Iron Warriors Legion Naismith Pattern (Contemptor) Dreadnought (3D Print)

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Dreadtober is an annual painting challenge that runs every October. Pretty much every year for the last several, I hope to start on it, but never end up finishing a model. This year, despite being as busy as I have been, I decided to try and speedrun a stealth entry and see if I could get something finished in time. That way if I didn’t manage to finish anything, it wouldn’t be a(nother) “Here’s the project I’m starting but actually not going to finish” post.

So how’d I go? Did I succeed? Well, yes and no. You can see the results in the picture above, but the caveat is that while I think it’s certainly table-ready, there are a few more things I still want to do with it. Weathering, more work on the base, possibly some greenstuff or guitar-wire cables on the old-school Lascannon, and I’m also not sure if I should add some more colours to the Lascannon.

This model is, obviously, based on the original Dreadnoughts from Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader – sculpted by Bob Naismith. I’ve had this STL sitting on my PC for quite a few years now, and as I’ve now got a printer that isn’t a huge pain in the arse, it was time to break out this nostalgic bad boy and make it physical.

As a 3D printed model, you can see some of the print lines on it – I feel like they’re not as problematic on a mechanical model as they would be for something organic. I’m still pretty happy with the result, especially given that it’s an FDM print and so is much “cleaner” and more straightforward than resin printing.

After looking around online, I decided to print it at 115% as people had suggested – at that enhanced size it fits more with the current Contemptor models, which is what people tend to use these as. I guess in a 40k situation it’d be a Hellbrute, but 40k has really messed up the whole Dreadnought situation pretty badly with their model/range culls of recent times. As someone who hasn’t actually played for far too long and has no interest in competitive play, IDGAF so I’ll just use it as whatever whenever I get back to friendly games.

I may or may not add some more colour modulation as well. It is a bit tricky with a limited-palette, limited-detail model like this, but perhaps a little more brownish tint on the lower portions and some more highlights up top – though I don’t want it to look too shiny, either!

And here’s a little bit of WIP-progression from the last week or so, photographed a bit at a time. As noted here and in yesterday’s post, I haven’t really had a lot of time for blogging, and let’s be honest – none of the above photos really deserves a post of it’s own, either!

Still, this is the first 40k related thing I’ve painted in quite a long time, and the first Iron Warriors model I’ve painted in even longer. Might be time to harness some of this enthusiasm and fit some more Warhammer back into this blog!