LAWGIVER MKII

Many moons ago I saw that the Termight Replicas website had a run of Lawgivers for sale! Obviously I got in touch with Wake and put an order in straight away and waited for it's arrival. This first version I have no idea who made it, as it was up on Wake's site but all that info has since been taken down, as there are no more in the pipe-line.
The second is the work of Jonathan Bayliss A.K.A. Sloopy who also made the helmets (more of that in another post). As well as the weapon itself, you also got a signed Lawgiver print from Cliff Robinson (pictured at the top of the page), I have two of these now. They are not on paper but a thick plasticy material. In fact I reckon you could use them as placemats!!!

First up is Wakes's original take on the Lawgiver. I have no idea of his work process or what the materials are but it's some sort of plastic! Edit - It's vacuum formed (thanks to Sloopy for that)

Next is the Sloopy version. I was informed that he was doing his own take on the weapon and so got in touch, as he was doing this as a private sale item. It's much better than the other one and is made out of resin. The trigger works (well, it pulls back) and the mag comes off. All the extra work really comes through on this version and I was very happy with it....but there is one MAJOR mistake though but I'll tell you that at the end of the blog, unless you can see it first!

Well did you see the mistake, there's NO ejection port for the spent cartridge cases, instant jam!!!

Finally a couple of pictures just to show the two next to each other, enjoy!

Unofficial Judge Dredd Polo Tops

Seeing as Tharg hasn't started making T-shirts and Polo-Tops with personalised Judge badges on them, I thought I would give it a try. I can't design stuff and I definately can't make stuff, so I just became the facilitator in the whole process.

Many moons ago the extremely talented  Mike Carroll came up with a badge design thing on his website,  you typed your name in and a badge appeared with it on! Here's a quick link to the website and it's not just Dredd's badge that you can have, as you'll see when you have a look!

After chatting to Mike about trying to sort out a badge to embroider onto a top, he made a design that would be easier to use. The problem with the one on his site was that it was too realistic!

Here is the design he sent me and this was just perfect for what I needed.

The next stage took bloody ages, mainly because the firm I used for the Hell Trekker tops wanted some sort of computer file thingy, so they could change bits to make the stitching do something or other! Because of that I put the whole thing on the back-burner and left it in my jobs to do. That was until a few months ago, when I decided to do a search on the computer for embroidery places in the town. Luckily for me there was a place, which I had never noticed before and I walk past it each week.

I took the file of the design in and they said that it would be no problem what so ever. I ordered 3 Polo Tops straight away, 2 for me and 1 for my son Sam. Now I had to wait until they came back with a computer version of how the badge would look. It wasn't long before this turned up and I was amazed.

The colour around the name, stars and eagle are all gold as well but just a slightly different shade, so as to make it stand out more. Now all I had to do was wait until the finished tops were made, as this was the final confirmation stage.

Here's a close up of the final finished badge.

And just to show you how good they look on, here's Sam and me wearing our new tops. Sam wanted to hold his hand up and as you can see, due to his tears, we had a small arguement but he still won!

I will be having a couple of T-Shirts and probably a singlet vest made with this badge on now! So there is proof, if it was needed, you can make your own personalised embroidered Judge badges. By the way they came out for under £20, which was not bad at all.

Judge Dredd Sunglasses

Come the summer months who wouldn't want to wear a pair of Judge Dredd sunglasses (produced by Dorda). Well as you can see from the pictures, both the pairs I have are unopened, as I would never wear them (well they are crap)!

Yet again these items came out with a whisper in 1995 and it would been by pure accident if you found even just one of them (along with the rest of the Dorda range) in the shops. Both glasses come on a carboard packet, sealed under a plastic cover. Each comes with a different angled Dredd head above the nose, along with a microphone and an official badge!
On the rear is a colour picture of Dredd superimposed over a page from 2000AD's past that shows Dredd fighting Orlok. All you fans will know the story so I'm not going to tell you what it was from!

Not one of the best items I'll agree and that's why I think these didn't get much of a promotion, saying that some of the Dorda wasn't too bad, as you will see in future posts!