Civvies from Judge Dredd

[Section9]

Seems like Warlord Games has released a couple 3-packs of civvies for the Judge Dredd game. They don't quite match the Infinity style, of course, but I'm sure there will be a few oddballs out there dressed like a refugee from the 1980s!



And of course there are the Fatties for use as PanO civvies:



(yes, that's actually a freaking wheel to support their belly!)

[jherazob]

After getting used to the superpolished style of the Infinity minis, these old-style sculpts look freaking hilarious to me

I don't think i'd deploy them on Infinity matches though, too jarring a difference for my taste, but for other stuff they'd work.

[Pacific]

Those are very cool!

I already have the fatty with belly wheel actually, used him in a 'zombie' scenario where he had no wound incapacitation

[michel]

Totally don't like

The only solution is that Corvus itself sculpts them...

[Maxvon_d]

I'd rather not be negative but Mongoose's Judge Dredd range baffles me. When so many manufacturers have been steadily improving their sculpts and the bar is being raised higher and higher by the year, with CB arguably pushing it the highest, how can Mongoose still be churning out stuff that looks like it was sculpted in the 1980's

I love Dredd and grew up reading 2000AD so it's disappointing to me that the material is not getting the miniature range it deserves. I mean compare these minis to the Batman range from Knight models, for example.

[dulydude]

<double post derp>

[dulydude]

I'd rather not be negative but Mongoose's Judge Dredd range baffles me. When so many manufacturers have been steadily improving their sculpts and the bar is being raised higher and higher by the year, with CB arguably pushing it the highest, how can Mongoose still be churning out stuff that looks like it was sculpted in the 1980's

maybe they're aiming for that as dredd is kind of from that time period

or they simply don't have the resources to do what CB are doing

[Pacific]

I think it actually hits home how mind-bogglingly amazing some of the CB sculpts are at the moment. Not just CB, but people like Knight, Mierce, some of the Malifaux sculpts and Dark Age etc. The standard is just so high, I think if you could have seen some of this stuff 15-20 years ago you would simply not have believed it was possible.

I buy a lot of historicals stuff from lesser known companies and from smaller companies generally, where quite often the sculptors don't have the time or resources to produce the kind of material CB releases. I would say that this is pretty much level with those in a lot of cases. Perfectly serviceable for tabletop gaming when at arms length and enough detail to enjoy painting it. Where it falls down is with the 1600x1080 resolution close-ups where a 28mm miniature is blown up to screen size.

I would love someone like Knight to get hold of the license for Judge Dredd and do some super-realistic versions of the characters, but I think these are fine for the material to be honest. I think if you saw them in the flesh you would probably be perfectly happy with them!

[michel]

I'd rather not be negative but Mongoose's Judge Dredd range baffles me. When so many manufacturers have been steadily improving their sculpts and the bar is being raised higher and higher by the year, with CB arguably pushing it the highest, how can Mongoose still be churning out stuff that looks like it was sculpted in the 1980's

I love Dredd and grew up reading 2000AD so it's disappointing to me that the material is not getting the miniature range it deserves. I mean compare these minis to the Batman range from Knight models, for example.

I coudn't agree more!

I'm not a fan of american superheroes, but I admit that Knight M is making every effort possible to give some sculpted glory to those characters... And there are Wyrd, Hasslefree and the company which makes Dark Ages, that are also in this medium-high range of quality...

But nothing beats Corvus. I hope that they are going to sculpt some normal citizens for the RPG, and that they also strike a deal with Burning G to sculpt some figures for their Faith rpg...

[Section9]

I'd rather not be negative but Mongoose's Judge Dredd range baffles me. When so many manufacturers have been steadily improving their sculpts and the bar is being raised higher and higher by the year, with CB arguably pushing it the highest, how can Mongoose still be churning out stuff that looks like it was sculpted in the 1980's

maybe they're aiming for that as dredd is kind of from that time period

or they simply don't have the resources to do what CB are doing

That's what I suspect, that since the iconic Dredd art is '80s big shoulder pads, the rest of the minis should also be '80s cartoony.

I'm probably only going to get the fatties, just to annoy the PanO players.