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25/05/2016 at 16:13 #42476
Angel Barracks
ModeratorI hear you.
I think my first port of call could be polystyrene packaging with bits stuck on and lots of billboards, pipes and graffiti.
Or cheap plastic bins and containers?Or….. make a 6mm city so you can have mega buildings and move some 6mm around on that, when they clash swap to the bigger models?
convert to 6mm
26/05/2016 at 06:48 #42495Thuseld
ParticipantI hear you.
convert to 6mm
I love the subliminal messaging.
convert to 6mm convert to 6mm
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26/05/2016 at 14:54 #42534Noel
ParticipantLast night I was chanting “must convert to 6mm” in my sleep.
28/05/2016 at 00:29 #42584Stroezie
ParticipantNudge, nudge
Did someone say 6mm Judge Dredd?
YOU THERE!!! Senior citzen! Jay walking! Five years cryo-cell! Effective immediately! Please await pickup.
MUUUHAHAHAHA!!!!
Come to the 6mm side, we have really tiny cookies :-))
28/05/2016 at 00:41 #42586Angel Barracks
Moderator28/05/2016 at 14:54 #42601Noel
ParticipantVery nice!
28/05/2016 at 15:30 #42602Stroezie
ParticipantI was just going back over this thread looking
to steal some more ideasfor more inspiration (yep suckered myself into another 6mm project) and noticed you’re a bit stumped for ideas for terrain.If you want to build a lot of towers cheaply and reasonably quick you could do what I did for my 15mm Judge Dredd. Look for folding crates and those small plastic cabinets with drawers, simply spraypaint them grey and add as much greblees as you feel you need et voila.
as an added bonus you get some figure storage to
or you could add interior detailing and move the action indoors.
Btw. for those of you who are interested I’m working on judges Anderson and Giant at the moment once they are finished I’m going to start my own thread over in the 6mm scifi forum.
Cheers,
Stroezie.
31/05/2016 at 08:26 #42686sean lone
ParticipantStroezie
Love the drawer units and collapsible crates consider these ideas stolen.
Regards
Sean01/06/2016 at 23:34 #42789Noel
ParticipantThat is some clever use of common items to make terrain with. Thanks for the suggestion and great work on those.
01/07/2016 at 15:20 #44090Noel
Participanthttp://generalgulliver.blogspot.com/2016/07/mean-greenies.html
Back to my regularly scheduled program…
06/09/2016 at 03:39 #48112Noel
Participant06/09/2016 at 09:21 #48121Mike
Keymaster06/09/2016 at 09:46 #48130Victoria Dickson
ParticipantLove the Hellboy figure 🙂
06/09/2016 at 15:03 #48162Noel
ParticipantBoth Hellboys come from the Horroclix set “Hellboy & the B.P.R.D Action Pack”, which I think is out of production, but easy and inexpensive to find.
https://www.google.com/search?q=hellboy+horroclix&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#safe=off&q=hellboy+horrorclix
They come prepainted (but I must repaint them!) on clix bases. The models are easy to remove from the bases (glued on) and rebase them. They are made of a slightly bendy plastic and fit in well enough with 28mm miniatures.
26/09/2016 at 05:18 #49289Noel
Participanthttp://generalgulliver.blogspot.com/2016/09/mchips.html
A new judge and some added shine to an old model…
03/10/2016 at 04:14 #49725Noel
Participanthttp://generalgulliver.blogspot.com/2016/10/vampire-hunter-b.html
Guest appearance by Wesley Snipes and Kris Kristofferson.
03/10/2016 at 11:16 #49738Mike
Keymaster03/10/2016 at 13:56 #49753Abwehrschlacht
ParticipantGood stuff, I have a judge Dredd project that I am working on at the moment (find my threads in the sci-fi topics). I have also been pondering terrain. I am thinking of going down the interior of a block route. Something along the lines of an open area shopping sprawl, with eaterie carts and the like to block los. I also want a bunch of citizens to mix in!
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03/10/2016 at 15:47 #49771Noel
ParticipantHave you played any games yet?
Not yet, although I am getting to a point where I feel like I have to get started on a plan to get these to the table.
I have the Warlord/Mongoose rules and they have fun mechanics and versatility, but I’ve read that there are balance issues from people that have experience playing them.
I’m interested in checking out Pulp Alley. I see that the Sally 4th team uses this for their Dredd games and I like that the game is story driven. I’ll probably put in an order for these rules soon.
Good stuff, I have a judge Dredd project that I am working on at the moment (find my threads in the sci-fi topics). I have also been pondering terrain. I am thinking of going down the interior of a block route. Something along the lines of an open area shopping sprawl, with eaterie carts and the like to block los. I also want a bunch of citizens to mix in!
I have enjoyed your Dredd stuff and the 6mm Dredd project as well!
The terrain is probably the most intimidating part of this to me. The setting is really wide open and can take place in just about any location you can dream up, but I’d also like to start in MC-1. I keep flipping back and forth between doing a plaza type setting to start with, using loose rooms and walkways and such to ensure variety, but I also think it would be fun to do some apartments and slums, inspired by the movie and pictures of Kowloon.
I think this indecision and intimidation are really holding me back. I know I should just jump in and do something, already.
05/10/2016 at 16:17 #49924Noel
Participanthttp://generalgulliver.blogspot.com/2016/10/anything-to-declare.html
Former enemies or unfortunate victims?
05/10/2016 at 16:30 #49925Victoria Dickson
ParticipantIllegal immigrants?
05/10/2016 at 16:39 #49927Rhoderic
MemberDamn dixie mafia, up to their old tricks again smuggling synthetic bodies.
Very nice. (Well, when I say “nice” I don’t mean to say that bodies in suitcases are normally agreeable to me, but… oh, you get the point
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05/10/2016 at 16:43 #49928Noel
ParticipantOoooh. I hadn’t even considered the possibility that they are still alive.
Very nice. (Well, when I say “nice” I don’t mean to say that bodies in suitcases are normally agreeable to me, but… oh, you get the point
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05/10/2016 at 17:31 #49931Victoria Dickson
ParticipantThey could be victims to be rescued, kidnapped either for ransom or for sale to organleggers.
They’re cool. You have to admire whoever came up with the idea for those minis. From a safe distance, obviously.
05/10/2016 at 22:12 #49945Noel
ParticipantThey’re cool. You have to admire whoever came up with the idea for those minis. From a safe distance, obviously.
Yes!
I hope it doesn’t say too much about me that I wish we’d see more like these…
11/10/2016 at 18:12 #5033821/10/2016 at 14:26 #5099821/10/2016 at 15:10 #50999Noel
ParticipantI just got an email from Warlord that they are having a 50% off sale on all Judge Dredd products.
A good time to pick them up.
21/10/2016 at 16:53 #51001Noel
ParticipantFigures that by the time I got to the website, they were nearly all sold out!
21/10/2016 at 17:47 #51004Rhoderic
MemberI just got an email from Warlord that they are having a 50% off sale on all Judge Dredd products. A good time to pick them up.
Figures that by the time I got to the website, they were nearly all sold out!
Well that was about three seconds of excitement for me between reading the first post and the second
The whole Warlord webstore seems to be down, now.
Warlord isn’t dropping the Judge Dredd product line, is it? I did notice a while ago that they’re no longer selling the starter box (which was a bummer, because I was considering getting it for the limited edition figures that came with it).
21/10/2016 at 18:10 #51014Noel
ParticipantWarlord isn’t dropping the Judge Dredd product line, is it?
I am sort of afraid of that, too. There’s so much there that I still haven’t picked up!
Last year, around this time, they had a similar sale where I wondered the same thing. It was just for the boxed sets (buy one, get one free). That was also when they made the digital rulebook free and stopped selling the physical book, which to me seems like they weren’t selling enough of the line or the rulebook to consider a reprint of the physical version. A free rulebook is a way to generate interest in the line.
I do hope they aren’t giving up on it, there are more releases in the works that I know of (Mopad, Pat Wagons). I don’t buy as much of it as I’d like to, but I do buy them and want to collect most of the line. Last year my wife even gave me that super-expensive Manta tank (sitting on my bookcase assembled, but not painted yet).
I was lucky enough to get the starter set when it was first released. The limited miniatures are very nice and that gang leader is obviously meant to be Aimee Nixon from Low Life.
This is really a Mongoose product, so even if Warlord decide it isn’t worth it for them to continue selling, then Mongoose might find a different caster and distributor. I have less faith in Mongoose than I do in Warlord, though, from years of experience.
21/10/2016 at 21:12 #51020Rhoderic
MemberHeh, I wasn’t able to get my order in before the webstore crashed again. But maybe that’s all right, I’m taking this (as well as the fact I couldn’t get the starter box) as a sign that now is not the right time for me to start a Judge Dredd project. I have a separate (homebrew) sci-fi urban gang war project going on and it might be best to wait and see what’s going to happen with the Judge Dredd range for now. If Warlord isn’t dropping the range and I’m just being alarmist, then I can hope for another sale this time next year. Maybe even for those limited edition figures to come back – the fact I can’t get hold of the Aimee Nixon figure (which is possibly the best-looking figure of the entire range, IMO) is part of what’s been dampening my enthusiasm all along.
If I had gotten my order in, it would have been for the Ape Gang, the Renegade Robots, the Cursed Earth Desperadoes, the East Meg reinforcements and Assassin/Agent pack (in anticipation of the East Meg boxed gang, MC-1 Judges and Citi-Def squad becoming available again later on) and some other mercenaries. There’s a certain charm to the cartoonish quirkiness and the intentionally ridiculous “anything goes” mentality of the Judge Dredd setting and miniatures, which I’m partly missing out on with my aforementioned other project (it’s more restrained). The Ape Gang, Renegade Robots and Cursed Earth Desperadoes are perfect examples of this. Besides, if I’m already committed to making urban/industrial sci-fi terrain for one project, then it kind of makes sense to do several different “gang war” type projects of different flavours to make the most out of that terrain (I’ve even considered taking up Necromunda with alternative figures, and then there’s that upcoming Rogue Stars range from North Star which is looking pretty fun).
But even so, right now Judge Dredd will have to wait. At least I can acquaint myself properly with the comics in the meantime.
22/10/2016 at 04:27 #51026Noel
ParticipantI hope you don’t give up on it.
I have been enjoying your posts so far.
22/10/2016 at 19:24 #51067Abwehrschlacht
ParticipantThanks for the head’s up on the Warlord sale, I managed to get in there and snatch a few boxes. It was excellent timing for me and my latest project!
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23/10/2016 at 16:19 #51094Noel
ParticipantThanks for the head’s up on the Warlord sale, I managed to get in there and snatch a few boxes. It was excellent timing for me and my latest project
I was more interested in the single models, I can’t get those at my flgs but they can get the boxes. Still got a bunch of stuff, I think there were ‘found stock’ or cancellations, I went back and there was stuff in stock that wasn’t before. I wish I could’ve landed some fatties, though. I’ve been eyeing them, recently.
Still a great deal.
23/10/2016 at 16:59 #51100Abwehrschlacht
ParticipantI hear ya, I was after some fatties as well!
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23/10/2016 at 17:08 #51102Rhoderic
MemberDamn, now that I can access the webstore again (seemed to be some DNS server issue before), even the weapon packs are sold out. I still wanted a couple of those for my other projects. Free shipping, too
23/10/2016 at 19:09 #51107Abwehrschlacht
ParticipantThere was a large scale DDOS against an American server on Friday, a lot of sites were down, maybe Warlord’s was one of them?
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23/10/2016 at 19:12 #51108Mike
Keymaster23/10/2016 at 19:14 #51109Abwehrschlacht
ParticipantYou’d think so, but it just seems like a big coincidence. Same as you, no facts behind this…
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