Some may consider my choice of the Judge Dredd Fatties to be reminiscent of my nickname as editor of a certain magazine at a company just down the road from us but that is merely coincidence. I have read 2000 AD since its first issue in 1977 and have been a diehard Judge Dredd fan since.
Chief amongst the miniatures I was keen to produce when we gained the licence from Rebellion were the Fatties. With unemployment rife and boredom high in the Mega Cities, there are many crazes the citizenry participates in to fill their days, one being obsessive gluttony! So large do some citizens become that they require special wheels to hold up their massive stomachs. These several-hundred-pound behemoths even become stars as competitive eating is a bonafide sport in the world of Judge Dredd…
Fatties have been a staple of the Judge Dredd universe for as long as I can remember and I’ve always felt a little underwhelmed by previous attempts to represent them in miniature. They always ended up as spheres with legs rather than something more believable with folds of fat, ill-fitting clothing and jowls all-a-quiver…
I’m delighted by how Warlord Games sculptor Marco has taken a new direction and produced hugely characterful miniatures that truly represent the Fatties from the comic strips. Producing female Fatties in miniature for the first time was also something I was keen on and he’s done a great job on the lardy lady! These fun, flab-laden figures* have been expertly painted by Kirsten, one of our in-house painting team – cracking job she’s done too!
*Any similarity the red-capped figure has to a certain US President is purely coincidental – it isn’t MAGA-City One, after all…
