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?

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.

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).

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!

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! 🙂