Angel Gang

Whilst waiting for the paint to dry thought I'd post up these kits.
What you have here are Mean Machine Angel sculpted by Martin Herrick, and Fink Angel sculpted by Steve Burns,
Both are 1/6th scale resin kits.
The Mean came with the base so it was a given that I had to pair them up.

Joe Pineapples kit update

The 3, yes 3, Joe Pineapples kits have all been rubbed down and some parts glued together.
These will be done after the two Dredd's are done.
Moving along nicely, pleased with my progress but annoyed that I felt ill for so long, at least 2 to 3 years which has contributed to my lack of progress, before I was eventually diagnosed and sorted out.

Big Dredd progress

The BIG Dredd is coming on.
All filled now and had his first rub down.
A bit more filling was done today, more rubbing down tomorrow.
The left hand has a curled fist which I'm sure should have something in it, a truncheon perhaps? Wasn't with the kit.
I'm having a truncheon made up for Dredd to hold, turned up on the lathe. Will look cool.

Prepare To Be Judged progress

Here's the Prepare To Be Judged kit assembled and puttied up.
I drilled the left hand through the fist so I could thread the ABC Warrior head spine through.
The ABC head has been drilled on the underside so the various pistons and wires can be attached.
The head is not glued in yet, I'll leave that till last for ease of painting.
Also the left shoulder pad isn't stuck on yet, again ease of painting.Whilst looking at said pad I thought it looked a bit short.
I found the other half tucked away under the bottom box flap, lucky catch that.
Lawgiver still to be attached, again leave until last.
Next up will be to rub down all the filler then attach the Robot wires and prime.
Shame the kit didn't come with the base in the picture.
Just found the name of the sculptor in the archives-Robert Cowley.

I need to clean this bench up

Roughly assembled kit

Prepare to be Judged.

Title of this kit is Prepare To Be Judged and comes cast in tan resin, consisting of around 16 resin parts and a bag of metal and wire which I presume is for the ABC Robot head.
This is the movie version of Dredd and the pose is quite odd.
The casting is quite poor with major seam lines and pour lugs needing to be removed.
I have shaved these back with the dremmel and the next step fill be to fill in the holes and rub back to smooth.
No idea who produced or sculpted this kit but do remember seeing it in Model Mart all those glorious kit years ago.

Box art

All the parts layed out

Here you can see I've removed the seams and cut off the pour lugs

The body is hollow cast, strange choice. This is going to need to be filled with expanding foam possibly

ABC Robot head and lawgiver

BIG DREDD, BIG BAD DREDD!

Here we have a huge Dredd kit.
Standing 17'' tall and weighing in at 2kg!
The kit has already been part built with some breakage along the way.
First off I stripped the paint back to the original resin using fairy power spray left in a bag overnight.
The paint was so thick in places it took 3 attempts to get the paint off.
Once I could see the kit it became apparent how much filling had been done to the model, quite poorly too.
I am now going to give the whole model a coat of grey primer then I can see more clearly what needs to be rubbed down, re-built and filled.

Judgement On Gotham Death Done.

Finished the Gotham Judge Death.
Quite a challenge this as there is no real detail to speak of in the sculpt.
I painted it close to the comic and added nails to the rib and chicken shoulder pads as in the strip.
I also added a length of chain to the meat hook that is through the shoulder pad.
To the base I added some grit around the feet as the kit doesn't stand flush to the base.
The skin I gave a coat of satin varnish, reason being I wanted the skin to look slippery as in when meat goes on the turn. Original artwork and model below.
So that's another done next up BIG Dredd.