Friday, June 5, 2020

JTinQT - Week Ten - VBCW - Man in Black

Hi All

Only single figure this week and it is really a carry over from last week. Another VBCW figure for my Government "Chaps" Battalion - this is the Jeeves figure from Warlord Games. He got missed off last week as did not like the original head swap so had to replace it. The Warlord figures Jeeves and Wooster come in the British Tommy helmet but I wanted a more bowler hat look.


This next shot has Jeeves next to Wooster - painted from last week. Jeeves head came from another Warlord figure, whereas I just filed Wooster's hat to make it look more like a bowler. 


Hopefully more productive this coming week.

Cheers Jez

From DaveD - Landing Craft Tank

Just scraping under the wire for tomorrow’s D Day game is a Landing Craft Tank . This is a Lindbergh kit . It’s 1/125 rather that 1/100 15mm , but I think it does the job well enough.

I didn’t like the decals that came with this kit , so it still needs those adding - I am waiting fir a white laser jet toner cartridge that’s on order so I can set about doing my own printed ones .



The table is set for tomorrow's virtual game with Martin and James 












From PeteF: More Minifigs Basing - Dutch East Indies Battalion



As the Quarantine Challenge nears its final furlong I find myself compelled to keep getting my dad's old troops on new bases. I still have plenty of unbased Minifigs to keep me busy, but I'll be really happy when I get the last few hundred of Wellington's men across the herring pond to join their bretheren here in the Pacific Northwest.



These fine fellows did not see action in June 1815 but my dad painted them because they were part of the 100 Days campaign army. As far as I can tell from his filing system he intended to paint every single non garrison unit that was available to Wellington on a scale of 25:1. He pretty much got there - although I think he only completed two (of 15) Dutch militia regiments and didn't get through all fifteen Hanover Landwehr battalions.



He did, however, paint both Dutch 5th East Indies battalions including this one. I rather like the contrasting light and dark blue and all the gold lace. It goes nicely with the French style shakos and beautiful plumage.



I got some help putting things away in the display cabinet

From TamsinP: I Am the Law! (lots of pics...)


Did I promise figures and larger terrain in my last post? I did, and here they are - some men and women of Mega City One's Justice Department!

I finished painting the figures on Wednesday, but I wanted to have a building as a backdrop which took me the last couple of days to finish, mostly because I decided to go to town on it.


No Justice Department group would be complete without the big chin himself, Mega City One's most famous Judge, the big chin himself, Old Stoney Face, Judge Joseph Dredd:


Where do I stand?

I'll tell you where I stand.

I stand four-square for Justice. I stand for discipline, good order and the rigid application of the law - and Grud help any limp-wrist liberals who say different.


The people, they know where I stand. They need rules to live by - I provide them. They break the rules, I break them. That's the way it works.

The people like it that way. They need to know where they stand.


Rights?

I'm all for rights, but not at the expense of order.


That's why I like to see the statue of Judgement standing there, towering over Liberty.

Kind of a symbol.


Justice has a price.


The price is freedom.

Or is it Rico, Joe's twin clone brother? Or Judge Kraken? Or another clone of Chief Judge Fargo?
Just in case you didn't hear that in Karl Urban's voice while reading, here's your chance:





Psi Judge Cassandra Anderson is another character that you must have:









As a Psi Judge, Anderson was never Dredd's partner but did team up with him a number of times, principally for cases involving the Dark Judges and other supernatural enemies.

As the Lawmasters have an AI and can act autonomously (they get their own stats card in Warlord's game), I didn't glue the riders in place:


These are Mark 2 or 3 Lawmasters. The Mark 1 is now available in the Cadet pack , but I haven't bought that one yet. There is another bike available, the specialist one in the SJS Judge Gerhardt pack.


Street Judge and Rookie:




These two figures come with the starter set.


Street Judges:





These are the figures in the Street Judges pack. The big weapons are a Widowmaker and a Lawrod.


Of course, the centrepiece of this post is the building. Looking through my MDF pile I decided that one of the Factory Units from Sarissa Precision would be a good one.






As you can see, I really went to town on this one with weathering, graffiti and posters. I painted the parts separately before assembling the building (which needed two steps as the greyboard parts had to be glued to their respective MDF sections first. I also added some card strips to the corners to hide the tabs.

I then did the first bit of weathering, drybrushing various lighter shades before airbrushing several thin coats of gloss varnish. The next step was to add the first posters and graffiti (a mix of decals and hand written with acrylic paint pens). After another thin coat of gloss I applied some washes and did some more drybrushing. Then some more gloss varnish, followed by more posters and graffiti, more gloss, washes and drybrushing followed by more gloss, more posters and graffiti a final gloss coat and then matt varnish.

Some close-ups of the posters and graffiti:













Not the country - the democracy campaigner America Jara.


The decals are from Warlord Games - i ended up with two sheets, one from the starter set and one as a freebie with Wargames illustrated. The posters are from a JPG file I downloaded from the net.

My next few posts will probably be the other Judge Dredd figures in my collection, starting with some CitiDef troopers.