Borag Thungg, Earthlet,
Today we have more citadel Judge Dredd miniatures many of which actually featured in the 2000AD comic's golden age Judge Dredd strips. A lot of today's miniatures are during Bob Naismith's head swap era some worked others not so much.
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My latest perp paint jobs all together |
The first miniature today is 'Chimichunga' and I am really pleased how this one turned out, her variant is the JD10/11 Rogue Trooper 'Venus Bluegenes', I really enjoyed painting this one and twitter followers pointed out her likeness to Madonna although I was going for Gaga :D She makes an excellent generic Sci-Fi character and could appear as ships crew think Nostromo, deep south Nazi post apocalyptic renegade or Imperial Army female squad leader, I could roll with this for hours all of the scenarios I could use her in.
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Chimichunga - front |
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Chimichunga - back |
'Belcharo' was the name on the original advert but I think that was a typo or typeface problem but if you examine the tag on this miniature it reveals the true name and character 'Belchard' this character appeared in the Judge Dredd story 'The Witness' Prog 500 .
**Spoiler Alert - stop reading now!**
...the character was a mentally disturbed perp with a split personality disorder know as 'Prunella Belchard' or 'Keef' when murdering, a super strong amazon masseuse Grace Jones lookalike and at the time when she was massively infamous for beating up tv presenters which the popular media found fascinating and in true 2000AD fashion they did some sort of parody of her which found it way into miniature. Now in my opinion the miniature really doesn't do this lady justice, and the comic drawings echo that, many paint jobs of this miniature I have seen are as a fat white bloke with a crowbar which is a shame as this one appears in Judge Dredd lore.
I also must bring to your attention that the LE6 Space Santa released on February 1986 and sculpted by Bob Naismith is a variant of this miniature, it could be possible Santa came first but Belchard tag date is older but I am still undecided as I know casting and release does not mean when was it sculpted and there are lots of examples of this across my blog.
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Belchard - front
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Belchard - back
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Belchard and LE6 Space Santa
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Mad Jack, a variant made up of Pa Angel's body, One Eye Schumaen the organ legger's head, this is a cracking little miniature, very characterful and would make an excellent cursed earth desperado.
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Mad Jack - front
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Mad Jack - back
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Head and body swaps are common in the Judge Dredd range, this line up could extend a lot further |
Ratex is a odd miniature anatomically his arms would probably reach the floor, he makes a decent regular perp though, he is another head swap and has Pa Angels head with Blaster Bellamy's body.
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Ratex - front |
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Ratex - back
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Chester Zermal, I had a good time painting this miniature, he looks like he is out for a run so I went for garish running leggings and a vest although there is no way he'll outrun Dredd's heatseeker round. His variant is the 'Dead Perp' which is in my paint queue but really lacklustre as it's just Chester cut of his tab with no gun.
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Chester Zermal - front |
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Chester Zermal- back
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Next up is 'Spit Gun Suzi', I own two different versions of this miniature one with a short nozzle on the gun pictured and the other long one, I think the may have been lost in the blister pack process even the original advert leaves it open to debate as it has a short one, it may have eventually failed in the molds and was filled in by the caster. I painted the variant 'Judge Pike' a long time ago.
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Spit Gun Suzi - front |
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Spit Gun Suzi - back
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Spit Gun Suzi and Judge Pike
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Next up we have a character who is up there in Judge Dredd infamy 'Gestapo Bob Harris' originally drawn by the legendary Brian Bolland, he first appeared in the Judge Dredd story 'Punks Rule' Prog 110, Bob lead the Cosmic Punks, after Dredd deals with him and his gang they reappear as members of the Doomsday Dogs in Father Earth Prog 122, no more spoilers to be told here.
Bob also appeared in the appeared in the 1982 Judge Dredd board game which we played to death as teenagers, the art and quality of the game was a major factor here.
As for variants his head was used on the Judge Dredd miniature 'Zodiac' and his body on 'Squid' who are painted below.
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Gestapo Bob Harris - front |
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Gestapo Bob Harris - back
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Gestapo Bob Harris and Squid
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Pepe, this one reminds of the Red Hot Chilli Pepper's lead singer Anthony Kiedis that is all, a simple head swap of his variant the Mutie Squid face.
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Pepe - front |
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Pepe - back |
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Squid Face and Pepe |
Zodiac, hate this miniature, poorly executed head swap and I can't place the really odd body at the moment but I will.
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Zodiac - front |
Bellamy, a head swap of mutie 'Monkey Face' body and 'Two Heads' head
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Bellamy - front |
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Bellamy - back |
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Bellamy and Monkey Face |
Lepuka, this one was ok to paint but again it's a simple head swap with three eyes with Jason basin head, the head is class sculpt influenced by Ron Smiths art.
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Lepuka - front |
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Lepuka - back
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Jason Basin, Lepuka and Three Eyes
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Squid a variant of Gestapo Bob Harris with a hideously sculpted head, I did not enjoy painting this miniature but had to for completeness, he might have Belchard's face in cut and paste fashion.
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Squid - front |
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Squid - back
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Not many more perps to do and then that's the range hopefully have them all finished by the close of 2020.
Next post some more classic Rogue Trader stuff.
Thanks for visiting
J
Great article.
ReplyDeleteRegarding Judge Pike, as she is listed in the Perps but is a 'Judge' and is equipped with a lawgiver, I've always thought that she must be a Wally Squad Judge, working in plain clothes undercover. She also looks a lot like Judge Aimee Nixon from the Dredd-verse spin-off 'Low Life' (see prog 1387).
Your article is informative too. F'rinstance, I had never seen Gestapo Bob Harris' return as a follower of Father Earth.
I also hadn't twigged the character of Belchard as being an actual character.
Being a life-long reader of 2000AD since #1, and thus a BIG Dredd fan it is my aim to collect the complete range of Citadel Dredd minis - I'm about ten short of the main set (I'm not including the really, REALLY rare ones - such as the Tech-Judges that are about £120 a pop on EBay - or the American Indians and the Japanese Samurai Oriental Heroes crowbarred into the Slaughter Margin offer sheet). They are not the best minis that Ciadel ever produced, true, and yes there is A LOT of head-swaps and duplication of parts. Perhaps it was the only way Citadel could make so many figures for the range for the money they had at that time.
Anyway, keep it up!