Bloodborne - The board game (June 15: Hunter Axe & Chikage hunters)

[Malebolgia]

Last Friday I received my all-in pledge of Bloodborne: the Board Game. 12 boxes filled with tiles, tokens, cards and lots of miniatures (around 210). Since Bloodborne is my all-time favourite video game I just had to get all of it...and get stuff painted.

For the first miniature I started with the first boss most players will encounter in the video game: the Cleric Beast. A huge deformed beast jumping down unto the gothic bridge...screaming at you and trying to claw, punch, rake and jump you. I struggled for a long time against him and have good memories of it. So it was the obvious choice for me.
I rebased him on a MDF base with a layer of putty on it. I rolled the putty with a texture roller from Green Stuff World. This will be the type of base for all of the miniatures. The painting went fast with the Citadel Black Templar Contrast paint and some fast highlights.





Next up will be some Scourge Beasts (read Werewolves) and the first hunter.

[mweaver]

Woah!  That guy looks fearsome!  Excellent paint job.

Never played the computer game.  Is the boardgame a co-op?

-Michael

[Malebolgia]

Thanks! Yeah, the board game is a 1-4 coop game in which you play campaigns. A campaign consists of 3 scenarios of about an hour. So nice and fast. I played my first scenario yesterday solo and it plays fantastic. Really love the translation from video game to board game.
And the miniatures are awesome, so I hope to have a nice collection of painted gothic horror miniatures soon

[robh]

Lovely work Marijn.
That "all-in" pledge is a monster 

[Malebolgia]

Cheers man! And yes...the stack is absurd. Lots of air in those boxes too, it's the way they pack board games nowadays. I'll probably bring it back to 3 boxes or so (and use the other boxes for other games).

[mweaver]

I am certainly looking forward to seeing more of the minis painted - especially heroes. 

We are living in boom times for nice coop minis boardgames. 

-Michael

[Duncan McDane]

Superb painting Marijn!
For some reason I missed this KS, will have a look  at it ( can't remember if Chris backed it or not...)

[Malebolgia]

Thanks man! The game is really cool, played it Monday and had a blast. It's a nice puzzley game (no dice!) and the story is very cool. And knowing Chris, he probably went all-in eh

[Duncan McDane]

Sounds good! And yes, you're probably right about Chris  .

[Malebolgia]

Scourge Beasts





So basically Werewolves. In Bloodborne they are humans who have succumbed to the beast plague, a result of taking the healing blood treatment. So the grand city of Yarnham will be plagued now and then by people who transformed into slavering werewolves. Scary stuff to meet in the game.
For the miniatures I bent two of the fore paws down (one of the few good things about PVC) and glued it to the base. This adds some variation to the models and it fits their pose too. For the eyes I went with the variations from the video game: yellow/white, red and blue. This also makes it a bit easier to differentiate them in the game.

[Malebolgia]

And the next one done...going fast now. This time the box art Hunter, the one most players will see as the first hunter in the game. Armed with the deadly Saw Cleaver and Hunter Pistol, clothed in the Hunter set...ready to take on all monsters.

"Oh, thank goodness. You're a hunter, right? Might you know of a safe place? The night is long and I've very little of the incense left... Please, there must be some nice place to run off to?"




You might see the models are quite small, I think true 28mm models. So for nowadays board games on the small side. But I like it! Excellent sculpts and casts and nice and fast to paint.

[Spinal Tap]

With over 200 minis this could be a long thread.

I, for one, am really looking forward to it as your painting looks great.

[Plynkes]

Cool. I have a strange fascination with the Bloodborne world. A nice mix of 18th(ish) Century fantasy and Lovecraftian dread. Have never actually played the video game, though. Loving these figures.

[Malebolgia]

Cheers lads. Yeah, Bloodborne has a fantastic mix of two genres and the transition from the first into the second is brilliant. And with the Kickstarter I now have more than enough cool miniatures to replay certain parts or scenes. I think I will be doing a Rangers of Shadow Deep version of Bloodborne (Hunters of Yarnham or something).

[OSHIROmodels]

They look great 

I can see the wolfy things being useful for other games.