Showing posts with label Rogue Trooper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rogue Trooper. Show all posts

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Judge Dredd & Rogue Trooper

Mathew Sprange of Mongoose Miniatures issued his yearly State of Mongoose statement. Go Here to read the entire statement. Here's what he had to say about Judge Dredd"

The recent release of Blood on the Streets introduced some brand new forces to the game, including the Judda and Klegg Invasion Force (a personal favourite!) which have also been released. The ABC Warriors will be joining them in the first quarter of next year, followed by the biker gangs (a street gang, apes, zombies and robots, all on bikes!), and a Brit-Cit Justice Department set which will be accompanied with a separate Brit-Cit Judge on bike release.Beyond that, you will also see a Hondo-Cit Judge force, Eldsters and proper Mobster and Zombie Horde sets. There are also a slew of new single miniatures on the way, such as Max Normal (already previewed on Facebook), Dog Vultures, Med and Tek Judges on modified Lawmasters, Troggies, Treasure Steel and oodles more!

A great deal of focus, however, will be put upon the vehicles of Mega-City One. The Manta has just started full production at Warlord and in the first two quarters will be joined by the Pat Wagons (four variants – standard, riot, fire and grav), the Ground Car and the (frankly massive!) Mo-Pad. These, with the four biker gangs, will really get the Judge Dredd miniatures game on the road. And yes, we are looking into ways of providing you with real MC-1 roads for your tabletop! All going well, this will culminate with Death on the Megway, the second supplement for the game, which is slated to be released at the bottom end of 2015. This will include really funky rules for using vehicles at 200+ mph, as well as tying up all the rules for the models released in 2015.




 
I have a collection of the Gangs of MegaCity One. I also had the Judge Dredd figures before the Kickstarter. Naturally, I was involved in the kicktstart of Judge Dredd and have nothing but extremely pleased by the figures. Much of my collection has been painted by either me or my friend Matt of Glenbrook. Recently, I'm a bit behind on the last few releases but look for the last few items remaining.

Not too much was said about the Rogue Trooper for the common man other than to expect the range to be officially released this year after the Kickstarters receive their armies. Yeah!

Go Mongoose!





Thursday, January 15, 2015

Rogue Trooper on the Painting Table


Following my BLOG post about Bleaseworld and Rogue Trooper, I went to my lead mountain. I knew I had some SciFi Adventurers by Bronze Age Miniatures  that could proxy as Genetic Infantry, Norts and Southers. I also have the few items issued by Mongoose in the same area. What I had forgotten was that I had some primed and ready to go. A quick few hits of paint, and some GI's are done. The proxy Gun Drones, proxy Norts and proxy Southers are still in progress...and may remain that way for awhile longer as I have some WW2 and some Mars Attacks on the table. I don't usually jump queue, but I did...check out the results. Not bad for a rush job. Sorry about the photos, I'm still learning...
Bronze Age Gun Drone Painted for Rogue Trooper (not painted or photographed by me) but I had to... 

Bronze Age SciFi Adventurers Painted as Genetic Infantry

 Bronze Age SciFi Adventurers Painted as Genetic Infantry

Bronze Age SciFi Adventurers Painted as Genetic Infantry

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Blease World and Rogue Trooper


Bleaseworld is a good BLOG. Like me, he jumped into Mongoose Miniature's Rogue Trooper Kickstarter that followed the very successful Judge Dredd Kickstarter. Like me he gets a few figures now and again. The figures are great but the delivery of the product was due September of 2013. I'm happy they are finally producing the figures. I'm happy that we are starting to get quality products. I also know that Mongoose will deliver.

For the unititiated, I clipped this from Wikipedia about Rogue Trooper.

"Rogue Trooper is a science fiction strip in the British comic  2000 AD, created by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons. It follows the adventures of Rogue, a G.I. (or Genetic Infantryman, a genetically modified, blue-skinned, manufactured elite soldier) and his three comrades'  search for the Traitor General. His comrades are in the form of biochips (onto which a G.I.'s entire personality is downloaded at the time of death for later retrieval) and are named Gunnar (mounted on Rogue's rifle), Bagman (on his backpack ) and Helm (on his helmet). He is genetically engineered to be immune to almost all known toxins. He can submerge in strong acid unaffected, and is able to withstand a vacuum in his bare skin." 


In the meantime, check out his Bleaseworld's work:

Nort Troopers #1 & #2

Nort Hellfire Pillboxes
Genetic Infantrymen


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