Ambi-shooters

When one pistol isn't quite enough...

This Hasslefree model is one of my favorites.  The look and feel of the model is quite good.

She means business.

This guy is another from Pulp Figures.

He's got a great pulpy, muscular action hero look to him.

With two guns and a big knife, he's ready for a fight.

Like all the Pulp Figures models in my collection, he has a definite plane to his pose.

Minding Their Own Business

Can't have enough civilians.

This merchant marine officer is from Pulp Figures and I have had him laying around with nothing to do, really.  Perhaps he is captain of a Black Atlantic steamer.

Like all of Bob Murch's models, he is sculpted to be easy to pain, but look good.
It's such a generic figure, he could fit in many different periods.

Grandpa, here, is another OOP Alpha civilian.

The sculptor of these tried to sculpt eyeballs on them.  It gives them an unusual look that I haven't seen anywhere else.

Gift for a Fellow Fan

Being a Dredd fan in the U.S. is not always easy...  I am a late fan (since around 2013) and don't subscribe to 2000ad, preferring to read the collected works in graphic novel form.  There is an American publisher of the Complete Case Files, but for nearly all the other releases I rely on ordering from the U.K.

In particular, I've been picking up select copies of the Mega Collection from Hachette, but they are not available for sale in the U.S.

Long story long, I couldn't find an issue of the Mega Collection and asked the 2000ad community if they knew of a source I could order from.  That's when one of the members offered to pick up a copy and send it to me.  This was a very nice offer.

In return for the kindness, I wanted to send something to show I appreciated it and came up on the idea of painting up a Dredd as thanks.

Execution Style

I didn't get my hands on any of the Assassinator droids from Warlord/Mongoose, but these two pulpy power suits from Dust work just fine.

They are plastic and come pre-assembled on their bases, with a single color paint job.
They possess enough detail to be interesting, although not always consistently, and are easy to paint.

Role Players

Continuing with my Judge Dredd cultists.  Unlike the red-robed guys (who are from North Star), these are from Mongoose/Warlord (although, now available from Rebel).

I can't help but think, with a little laugh, about the Chick Publications "Dark Dungeons", which tells the story of role players that get turned into Satanists by virtue of playing the game.  (It's a completely serious comic warning you that your soul is in jeopardy by playing games like this.)

These are "official" MC1 cultists, with elbow pads and rayguns.

The look of them actually works great for pulp sci-fi, from the retro-future rayguns, to the fins on their shoulders and elbow pads.

The barrel tip of this one's gun broke off.  Still looks good.

Livin' Large

For whatever reason, I am drawn to "unusual" things, such as these fatties.  I always had my eye on them, but being costly, I kept putting them off for purchasing later.
When Mongoose announced that they were giving up the license, I decided to take no chances and grabbed every fattie I could find.

This first guy is one of the later production runs, so he is a mix of resin body with metal limbs and head.

The resin needed a little cleaning, but was mostly ok.  To get the pieces to fit securely, I pinned and used Milliput.

Not everything is great, but the end result looks good enough, so I can forgive the imperfections.

This second guy was from an earlier production run and is all metal.  Given their size, this thing feels pretty hefty in the hand.

It isn't just the weight that is different.  The casting on these is much rougher, with detail-destroying, huge chunks of metal that needed removal.  The torso came in two parts, as well, which didn't fit snugly together.  More Milliput...
Mold lines are pretty hard to clean up on these as well, without destroying more detail.

Both of these guys have right arms that are stubbier and fatter than their left.  Not all the fatties are like this.

Partially painted cultist for scale.

As you can see, these are both pretty large dudes.  I don't know if it is the different body types or the resin vs. metal castings, but the resin guy has a slightly smaller body.

Monster Squad

Sitting along the same lines as Hellboy, I've got Buffy and Willow to join in.

Both of these are Hasslefree models and, as usual for his stuff, they look great.  They are smaller/slighter than other 28mm stuff, but not so much so that they will look out of place.  

The Slayer.

They are both fun to paint.

I have to admit that I'm not such a big Buffy fan.  I know that this is sort of heresy in some circles, but I found the writing to be somewhat mediocre, Xander was a jerk instead of a sympathetic geek.
A couple of my friends are really into it, though.

She turned me into a newt.

Perhaps Willow accidentally opened a portal into Dredd's world...