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As you may be aware, Planet Replicas will be with the 2000 AD stand at San Diego this year!

All the latest news on a NEW DREDD COMIC HELMET, alongside other VERY interesting things are out in the open now.
So why not read the info HERE!  (http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8349dd2803053a2640b0ca1e5&id=f78cc15dfb)

Just got the email too and nearly poo'd me pants at the pic!

Thought I'd found it there! Lol Guessing this has already been on here, pretty awesome but shady dealings going on...
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2013/03/this-judge-death-cosplay-is-absolutely-terrifying/ (http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2013/03/this-judge-death-cosplay-is-absolutely-terrifying/)

Ridiculously excited about the Mk1 Lawgiver.

One of my birthday prezzies to myself I feel.

Dunk!

Do Planet Replicas not have rights to the movie but rights to the comic, so are getting around that by creating props for the comic sequel to the movie coming out in the Meg ?

Strontium dog and death good be good anyone know how long till the wave is out ?

I've just ordered the new Dredd key ring, I suggest you lot do too!

For the love of Grud, will someone tell me what the Mk I Lawgiver will bloody cost!

Cheers

Jim

No news on pricing, but I've seen it's going to be out mid-September.

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 24 July, 2013, 11:11:49 PM
For the love of Grud, will someone tell me what the Mk I Lawgiver will bloody cost!

Saw this at SDCC. It's much larger than it looks.

Yeah, mine is too Blackmocco... Oh, the Lawgiver?  :-[

Dan's done a great job choosing the correct scale. When I first saw it I thought it looked a tad big, however, in the hand it is absolutely spot on.

Not long now :D

Cheers!

Jim

I'd forgotten about that Arms Buyers Almanac - but I don't think I'd ever taken in the ramifications of that "leathers in blue or black" line, suggesting that the proper uniform can be either colour.

It's a hard one as blue often translates as black in comic art, doesn't it? (For ages I though Batman's cloak was blue for example.)

I remember discussing* the uniform on this board and someone stated that since  Carlos Ezquerra tends to paint the uniforms black that's the colour it is meant to be.

However, just the other day I remember reading one of the Case files (I think it was 3) and it featured a story where Dredd got transported into the future and encountered vampire judges who (I believe) were nicknamed 'the blues' by the surviving populace...

Of course the uniform colour could have changed.

I guess either interpretation is valid since I don't think there's a definitive answer in the comic (unless the above counts).

*or maybe I just read the discussion. I think it was me who brought it up but it was a good while back.

Quote from: Mardroid on 30 July, 2013, 04:07:01 AM
I remember reading one of the Case files (I think it was 3) and it featured a story where Dredd got transported into the future and encountered vampire judges who (I believe) were nicknamed 'the blues' by the surviving populace ... I guess either interpretation is valid since I don't think there's a definitive answer in the comic (unless the above counts).

That's was only so Wagner & Grant could work an appalling, punning reference to the then very popular TV show Hill Street Blues into City of the Damned.

Tharg answered a readers letter on this topic some time around the introduction of painted colour to the comic, and explained that the leathers were always supposed to be black, and that blue was only used as a substitute for black when the repro was too shíte to do anything else. I assume it would have been a source of heated debate in the Command Module around that time, as artists were having to decide whether to keep the scheme they were used to or paint the leathers the way they knew they were supposed to be.

The blue and yellow/orange scheme actually looks really great on the printed page because of the complementary nature of those colours (http://willkempartschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/colourwheel01.gif), which is why artists like Bisley continued with it even after the advent of painted art, but it would look very silly in real life.

I remember Tharg answered that letter by saying Dredd's uniform was blue in the same way Superman's hair is blue - i.e. not, it just has a blue highlight to give it a bit of colour and flair.

Fair enough! I gladly stand corrected. That certainly makes sense.