SWAT's the Matter?

I'm not going to sugar-coat it, I think that this is a boring set of miniatures.
It's not that they aren't well-sculpted or -cast, it's not that I don't think they are useful.
It's simply that the color scheme is uninteresting.
And the bad photography/lighting obscures the details of the darker areas.

I tend to go for subtle shading of black, which never shows well in my photos.

The models are from Wargames Foundry, part of their Street Violence line, which is very good for modern/near future gang and police type action.

These were gifted to me by a friend that had collected them for some unrealized project and he knew this was my type of thing.

The models are pretty small.  Although sold as 28mm, they are probably closer to 25mm, which makes them look little compared to most of the "28mm" sold today (which are more like 32mm).

For Judge Dredd, these will make excellent Citi-Def miniatures.

3 Shades of Grey

Just a quick post to show a couple of more acrylic houses from GameCraft.
I did a sloppy sort of job painting these.  They had been sitting on my painting desk half-finished for a while and I just wanted to get them done and move on to other clutter. 
I wish they came out better, but I'm going to leave them be for now and perhaps revisit them in the future.

Four story house with styrene details added.

The balsa chimney was crushed a bit on the bottom.  It shouldn't show too much on the table.

Unpainted version.

Plants in the planters!

A larger, two family house.

Gunky windows and visible varnish streaks on the wall.  Not so bad from far away, but disappointing.

The bottom floor is a shade darker than the upper ones, but that doesn't come through well here.

Fast and Furious

Got this Judge Dredd Banshee Interceptor car for Christmas.

It is from Warlord/Mongoose, part of their Judge Dredd line.

It's sort of the Judge Dredd version of the Batmobile.

The car is primarily made of resin, with some metal add-on parts.  The wheels and exhaust ports are metal, the rest is resin.

The casting is generally good.  The undercarriage of the car has some problems, but nobody will ever see that.

There were some pieces of flash  that needed to be removed from the body, but it was otherwise not needing cleanup.

Happy New Year!

I have been busy lately with holiday fun and misplacing my camera.  Hopefully, I will be back to regularly updating soon.

Here's to a wonderful 2016 for all of us.

Juve is in the Heart

Despite being two nasty miscreants, these are nice models.

This pimpin' punk is from the Judge Dredd line (Warlord/Mongoose) and came in the starter set.

This heavy-packin' mama is from Wargames Foundry.

The Two Towers

One of the Burn In Designs buildings that I found most interesting is the office building that has 'two towers' with a connecting piece in the center.  There are actually two such buildings -- today I'm showing off the smaller one.

Here it is sanded and filled.  Like the other Burn In Designs buildings, this one is mdf.

 

On on of the towers I put a spare bit of mdf to serve as a HVAC unit.  It's flat and so should allow for the impression of detail while still allowing large based models to have some stability.

I added some styrene strip trim to the tower roofs.  It looks cleaner like this.

In the middle section I added thicker styrene strips along the edges.  I envision that the center section would be accessible to pedestrians.

I included mdf brick "planters".  I originally planed to do a roof-top garden type setup there, but removed many additions to facilitate the bases of the mecha models.

The bases are either 40mm or 50mm wide.  The creator of the building had this game in mind when designing it and his planning shows.

The painted and window-covered building...
I left the large entrances in the center of the building open.  I can see possibly having a driveway or even street passing through there.

Empty planters.

Added flowering plants.  I like it.

I've been having fun with this project.  Although I've focused more on Judge Dredd lately, I haven't abandoned this one.  I enjoy slowly building up my city, putting together the kits and figuring out practical ways to enhance the way they look while still maintaining their gaming-utility.

Although I have been also building the models and painting them, my main focus for this project has been terrain-first.  It's a new approach to me.

Two by Two, Hair of Blue

These gangers are from Foundry and Warlord/Mongoose.
Not really much to write about them, I think they speak for themselves.