From TamsinP - League of Fatties and Git Burga

Just a small group of rather large people for Judge Dredd this time - the League of Fatties.

From the Judge Dredd Fandom Wiki:

"Fatties are bored citizens who have turned to gluttony as a means to pass the time. They are so gigantically fat that they need a belliwheel to prop up their prodigious gut.

In the future, fatties can count as athletes: competitive eating is an international sport, ranging from the Olympics to criminal back-street eating games. Some contests even have fatties eat items like bedspreads and car parts. Mega-City One has fat camps where parents send juves to gain weight and poor citizens may try to bulk up in the hope that eating games might be their ticket for prosperity.

The intensely fat were still a rare sight in 2080. The first eating championships started around then, attracting people with its 'good times' decadence.

Fatties were commonplace in the 2100s, when gluttony was one of the few traditional pleasures that weren't illegal. This gave rise to both the coveted Mega-City Fats award and the first one-ton man, Big Lard Ringer (who was swiftly arrested after he rolled downhill).

When food rationing was enforced following the Apocalypse War of 2104, the fatties were left distraught. Begging and fraud spread throughout the community. On the flipside, many norms began assaulting them for being fat when others were starving (and some suggested eating fatties as a compromise). A group of Fatties called the League of Fatties began stealing or looting extra food to keep up their prodigious girth. In order to restore order, the city passed the Fat Control Law: all Fatties were restricted to four special blocks and not allowed out until they were below 300 kg [661.3 lbs]. There they had to submit to a regimen of exercise and a tightly-regulated diet. The fatties that did get out often binged on food to celebrate and ended up back in the blocks the next day.

Illegal eating championships went on for years, with fatties smuggled or broken out of the blocks.

In 2107, rationing was over and the fatties were allowed back into society. Eating championships were legal once more and attracted huge crowds.

The fatties were so common and the eating championships so lucrative that by 2123, thin juves would be sent to fat camps. The heftier juves were astounded to learn 21st century camps had expected them to lose weight."

These took a lot of work to get reasonably smooth transitions, particularly on the female's flesh.

I finished varnishing and basing the three figures yesterday and then remembered that I had a fast food stall sitting in my MDF pile. Thinking that it would make a perfect backdrop for these three, i decided to paint and assemble it. I didn't go quite so overboard with the weathering and graffiti this time, just a couple of slogans and some overall grime.

This kit is one of three from TT Combat's SciFi Utopia range.

Tomorrow i'll be starting work on some of the criminal character figures.

From TamsinP: Block Gang for Judge Dredd

With the forces of law and order (maybe disorder in the case of the Citi Def) painted, it is time to move on to the criminal elements of Mega City One.

With the high unemployment rates due to automation, boredom is rife among the teenagers and young adults of the city. Combine that with wanting cool stuff but not having any money, it is hardly surprising that so many turn to petty crime. Every block* has at least one gang and their rivalries and grudges frequently spill out into violent confrontations. It is quite common for two or more gangs to agree to have a rumble, sometimes over "turf", sometimes just for the sheer hell of it.


*the megablocks house tens of thousands of people each, and most people live in these.


Block Gang:

These eight figures come with the starter set, but are also available as a stand-alone pack.

The chap with the chain most have leaned over while the superglue was curing - I've fixed him since taking the pics.

 Block Gang Reinforcements:

These three figures are available as a separate pack. I ordered these at the release date, so I actually got metal ones (Yay!) rather than Warlord's nasty new resin. It seems that the resin shrinks more in the mould than the metal does - these three are noticeably taller and "fuller" than the resin ones.

I'll be working through the rest of the criminal elements over the next week or so, and will post them as and when a group are finished.

From TamsinP: Citi Def Troopers for Judge Dredd

Following on from the Justice Department, this time we have their civilian support, the Citizens Defence. In Mega City One each block has a militia which citizens can join, the Citi Def. Their role is to defend their block during time of emergency and to assist the Judges when called upon to do so. Some block Citi Defs are reasonably well trained and competent, others less so.

When you consider how bored, stupid, downright nuts and generally ornery most of MC1's citizens are, you can well imagine that giving them access to military grade weapons is potentially not the wisest of moves. They have regularly been the instigators of or involved in the frequent block wars (where citizens of one or more blocks start fighting those of other rival blocks) which occur.

However, they have played important roles fighting alongside the Judges in numerous major stories: during the East Meg Sov invasion of the Apocalypse War; and Judgement Day when the necromancer Sabbat traveled back in time (pursued by Johnny Alpha) and raised an army of zombies which attacked many cities.

I've just primed the next batch of figures, so I should have some more to show you soon.

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.