Mega City One Spring Clean Challenge

More years ago than I care to admit I bought Sarissa’s Judge Dredd bundle, which consists of 3 buildings plus some rooftop gantries and stairs. I assembled and painted one of them but I’m not overly thrilled with the results. I was going for a concrete look similar to what we see in the Karl Urban Dredd film, but in practice I’m finding that it looks a little dull, and I think I overdid it trying to bring out a stippled texture on the MDF. It was a surprising amount of work for a mediocre result.

In thinking about it, I’ve decided that I want to go for a much more comic book look for the other two buildings. The natural inclination for futuristic buildings is to go with grey and silver, but it’s pretty boring to paint and I’m noticing that they rarely do that in the Judge Dredd comics. I also really like the board for Osprey’s Helter Skelter game (the Judge Dredd version of Wildlands) so I’m looking at at the color choices there for inspiration.

My plan is to build and paint the other two buildings with the new color scheme in mind, and then repaint or at least touch up the one I’ve already done to make sure they all look consistent.

The last time I played the Warlord Judge Dredd game was in 2021, and I have a vague memory of it being a little unsatisfying. I remember thinking it was a little tedious that it took four dice rolls to make an attack: I have to succeed at an attack roll, my opponent has to fail their defense roll, I then have to make a damage roll, and my opponent makes a roll to resist the damage. I freely admit that my memory of the game is pretty vague, so I want to give it another try, which will be the last part of this spring clean challenge — I’ll write up a battle report here and do a proper review of the game on my blog.