Vampifans Views 118 - Monthly Musings 88

This is another illustration painted by Manuel Sanjulian. Vampirella initially appeared in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics magazine Vampirella #1 (September 1969), running to issue #112 (March 1983). The title was a sister magazine of Warren's horror anthologies Creepy and Eerie. Like those magazines' respective mascots, Uncle Creepy and Cousin Eerie, Vampirella hosted horror stories, though unlike them, she would also star in her own story, which would headline each issue. This illustration shows Vampirella flanked by Cousin Eerie to her right and Uncle Creepy to her left.

As is usual for me I have had another busy month. On the painting front I have finished painting 24 zombies from the Resident Evil 2 board game and I'll be showing them here very soon. Currently I'm painting 3 Judoon from Warlord Games' range of Doctor Who range. These were amongst the first figures I bought for this game but never get round to painting until now. I recently bought 4 Ambot models from Games Workshop's Necromunda range of figures. Necromunda is the only GW game I'm currently interested in. I have made all four of them and am busy painting them now. I plan on using them as Heavy Metal Kids to use in the Judge Dredd and the Worlds of 2000 AD supplement, The Robot Wars. It is always nice to have figures that can be used in multiple games. Next on my list of figures to paint will be the figures that came with Battle Systems' Core Space sci-fi skirmish game. I have started making the scenery items for this game and I'm busy painting the edges of both the scenery items and the walls. This is something I do with all of my card models and scenery. It is incredibly tedious and time-consuming but the effort is more than worth it as it transforms them from looking like cardboard models with their distracting white edges to much more realistic looking scenery.

I am continuing to lay the groundwork for my upcoming Judge Dredd RPG campaign. Those of you who followed my Judge Dredd Miniatures Game campaign in which my team of Judges were based on some of my blog followers (Med Judge Nash, Street Judges Burnett, Moore, Stone and Webb as well as myself, Street Judge Scott) may be pleased to know that you are all returning to my new campaign and that all of you have been upgraded to experienced Judges (rank:7) or in the case of Judge Stone, a Senior Judge (rank:10). My own Judges, Scott and Nicki Huntsman will start off as rank:5 Judges on their first tour of duty as Street Judges. Psi Judge Justine Devereux returns as a rank:7 Psi Judge. To put these rank numbers into perspective, most starting characters begin at rank:5 with a 5d6 dice pool; rank:6 and7 characters have a 6d6 dice pool and rank:8 to10 characters have a 7d6 dice pool. The bigger your dice pool the greater your chance of succeeding in a task and the higher your chance of scoring a critical success. I have created character record sheets for about 20 Judges and the perps who will appear in the first scenario, State of the Empire which appears in the Judge Dredd and the World of 2000 AD rulebook. The campaign begins in the year 2099 which is when Judge Dredd first appeared in the 2000 AD comic. I have created my own character record sheet for him and at this point he is only a rank:7 Judge.

This campaign will be posted on my WOIN blog. Speaking of which, I made a promise that my The Ace of Spades Campaign would return soon but too much time has passed since I made that promise. I have two more posts to show on my WOIN blog and then chapter 3 of The Ace of Spades Campaign will continue. I really want to post this before I start my Judge Dredd campaign. I am incredibly excited about returning to this campaign. I have missed my ongoing adventures of Kimberley and co.