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Post by flamingkillamajig on Sept 23, 2012 17:50:58 GMT -5
Looks pretty cool to me.
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Post by petercooman123 on Sept 29, 2012 13:24:26 GMT -5
Now if i recall correctly that miniature line existed for a long time already.
Seems like somebody wants to bag some money for something they are already earning money for.
I call for a good old angry mob....
Now i must admit i tend to call for that quite often.
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Post by Long John Silver on Sept 29, 2012 13:48:18 GMT -5
GW had judge dredd miniatures back in the early 80s, just 3-4 years before I ever walked into Hammersmith GW.
Wargames foundry still have a very expensive line of 2000AD characters. I have Hammerstein of the ABC warriors and some of the mutant characters from Strontium Dog - although they are a bit too tall next to GW models; probably 38-40mm.
2000ad had the best comics ever - the Apocalypse War was a favourite JD story. My real fave strips were Strontium Dog, Nemesis the Warlock, Ace Trucking Co and Rogue Trooper.
Edit - Don't forget to arm the angry mobs with AK-47s, Peter. I forgot that upgrade yesterday. (OK so I was playing computer games ONCE! OK!?)
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Post by flamingkillamajig on Sept 29, 2012 15:53:51 GMT -5
Sounds like you're referencing command and conquer generals chem. C&C generals 2 sounds interesting.
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Post by petercooman123 on Sept 30, 2012 13:05:14 GMT -5
Nah i'm pretty oldstyle, i arm all my angry mobs with hayforks and torches.
Ok, maybe the occasional rusty blade, but thats merely a fun option...
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Post by Long John Silver on Oct 9, 2012 20:00:12 GMT -5
Yeah, it was c&c. Luckily I got that out of my system and back to painting.
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Post by flamingkillamajig on Oct 9, 2012 20:59:52 GMT -5
I saw you had an ABC robot in your 'golden guardsmen' models. That actually interested me quite a bit. I was a bit in the whole judge dredd feel when the new movie came out and then bam this comes around to mooch off the movie's coming. Still i can't help but be interested in the idea of using judges with special ammo in their guns going up against random mutants and thugs by the hundreds. Sounds like a lot of fun actually. I like the premise but honestly the whole judge death thing kind of lost me. Like it seemed fairly cool, gritty and realistic until i heard about judge death. I think that'd possibly make the movie series too cartoony like spiderman (not the new spiderman but the one 10 years ago) rather than batman (like the batman trilogy out now). I also heard if the movie grossed a certain amount they'd make two sequels and the next one would be about the origin story of the cities i think or of dredd (can't remember). I heard the series on america was great. The creation of the cities could be awesome. The other sequel mentioned was judge death and i think any sense of believability would be gone if that came about. Would be nice to see a series on other events like some of the judges that went crazy supposedly, that one warlord of the wastelands or something similar. Judge death while interesting feels like it'd ruin the feel they're going for but then maybe i just don't know enough dredd.
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Post by Long John Silver on Oct 10, 2012 18:59:53 GMT -5
Did he reveal his face in the new movie? There's a big taboo about him not removing it in the comic books.
ABC was a totally different series; about a group of seven robots sent to tame Mars. There was Hammerstein the squad leader (that's the model I have), Captain Blackblood - a ruthless and evil sneaky infiltrator robot, Deadlock - a mysterious wizard khaos sorceror robot, Joe Pineapples - a vain closet cross-dresser who was the best sniper ever, Mongrol, Happy Shrapnel and The Mess.
Then there were the next generation ABCs brought together by Nemesis the Warlock, which were minus Shrapnel and the Mess, but had this crazy psychopath robot from the nemesis stories - Mek-Quake (a demolition robot who in the original Termite Vs aliens crusade was deployed in a titan sized demolition body) and a garbage disposal robot; Ro-Jaws.
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Post by flamingkillamajig on Oct 10, 2012 19:35:37 GMT -5
The judge dredd movie didn't show dredd's face even once. He was ruthless and shot people as they crawled away. He even threw one struggling, cowering and squirming bad guy off a ledge hundreds of stories down to intimidate the bad guys and show them he was pissed. Even at the end he threw the main bad guy down all 200 stories after she threatened to blow up the place because he was smart enough to know the device wouldn't work if he did that. The movie was very brutal and graphic. We saw different ammo types and even some imagined sex scenes with the psychic girl. Pretty much the whole movie took place in that one building and they had no reinforcements during the whole movie. It's a brutal movie and nothing like the stallone one. It was very dark too.
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