Maledrakh’s The Others: 7 Sins

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About the Project

The Others: 7 Sins is a miniatures-heavy big box boardgame written by Eric Lang, illustrated by Adrian Smith and published by Guillotine Games; kickstarted by CMON, with minis by Studio McVey. The theme is existential horror science fiction, avec tentacles. The setting is the last city of mankind in a dark cyberpunky future, beset on all sides by the demonic, corrupting forces of Sin. All that stands in defence of humanity are a handful of agents of an organization called F.A.I.T.H. And it is a loosing battle. This project is where I will collate my painted minis for this game and try to embarrass myself into actually getting them all done. I have way too many minis and tend to flutter about my collection, painting a little here and a little there as they take my fancy. Warning: I paint table-top quality, sometimes table-top +, sometimes just badly. Many of these minis look better when not magnified like in the photos. I maintain a blog where I post all my painted minis at www.themountainsofminis.com

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The Hell Club

Aug 28 2018

Tutoring 2

Skill 5

Idea 4

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The Hell Club were among the first minis I did for this game, and some of them are also regarded as the least quality minis in the game due to the shallow details on weedy bodies, the thinner truscale CMON minis are in not doing them any favors here…One can only dream how much better these could be if they had been GW-sized and scaled!

The Hell Club, a group of humans plotting evil, very reminiscent of the Cenobites from the Hellraiser series, being heavily into strap’n’leather rubber clothing and body modification…

Marguerite, Dr Gan, and Flay, the three “normal” humans in the Hell Club are probably the least good miniatures when it comes to shallowness and softness of the details in the entire game. Don’t get me wrong, the overall quality of the minis in this game is very high for PVC minis. It’s just that there are always some that are not up to scratch.

It might simply be that they are stick-thin, skin-tight fetish-latex clad humans in the smaller truscale 28mm, which means there is a limit to how deep any details can go. Something which does not work all that well for these exact miniatures, even though it works for others.

I did not really enjoy painting these all that much (what details there are are too small and shallow, I can barely see them let alone paint them. *Sigh* my age is catching up with my eyesight it seems.

So the paint job is rudimentary at best.

The Hell Club: Marguerite, Gourd & Vex, Dr Gan, Flay and Grin. In game the Hell Club are enemies that actively work to summon the Sins.

On top of that, I took a bunch of pictures of them individually, none of which turned out to be in focus. Maybe it’s the gloss varnish that tricks my old camera.

At any rate, in the end I had a single barely workable picture of all the Hell Club members. That will just have to do.

The Hell Club seems to be heavily influenced by the Hellraiser series of movies. Not a bad thing at all.

I have workable pics of Grin and Gourd and Vex taken when they were painted earlier than the other three, so I am putting them here:

Gourd and Vex. Minime cenobites. Both of short stature and shorter tempers.

An interesting pair, obviously very much in love. ah. I am such an incurable romantic.

Go get the Gimp for some fun and games:

Probably sleeps in a locked chest in the basement.

Gourd and Vex, and Grin are on 35mm bases. The others (sic!) are on 25mm bases.

The Agents of F.A.I.T.H. Alpha Team

Aug 28 2018

Tutoring 1

Skill 6

Idea 3

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Note: The heroes here were for the most part sporadically painted in 2017.

I only seem to have painted Alpha team, so Beta and Gamma will eventually be painted fresh for this project. (Woot!)

The defending human faction in The Others: 7 Sins board game consists of a number of cyberpunk / future agents and operatives including both normal and enhanced humans, and supernaturals such as werewolves and half-demons…

Thorley, Alpha Team.

The red base shows he is a Bruiser class hero

Karl the Werewolf in his human form.

I painted Karl in his Werewolf form.

Karl is a member of the Alpha Team.

The green base shows he is a Fixer class hero.

Leah the Leader (Leader role denoted by yellow base)

Morgana the Bruiser (Bruiser role denoted by red base)

Rose the Fixer (Fixer role denoted by green base)

Not entirely happy with Morganas face. As she is an ancient vampire, I tried to show her fangs. Probably used too strong colours, should have kept it really muted on such a small face. It looks painted on. On the other hand, that face is really small and difficult to paint.

Same with Rose, I tried to give her an Alice Cooper-like black Goth eye shadow and lipstick, but it is too heavy and looks more like a cartoon bank robbers mask. (and what the **** is up with those elbow tentacle-things anyway?)

Leah turned out ok.