Bloodborne: The Board Game

Bloodborne’s miniatures are some of the most characterful I’ve painted so far. Twisted limbs, grotesque silhouettes, and gothic menace around every corner.

The set comes with a huge number of miniatures, many of them in sets of four identical sculpts, which made the painting process surprisingly quick. Working through multiples at once in an assembly-line style kept things efficient without sacrificing the end result.

The approach was deliberately fast: drybrushing from start to finish. Basecoat, then layer upon layer of progressively lighter drybrush strokes to pick out the texture and bring the detail to life. It’s a method that suits these models perfectly, the rough, aggressive brushwork adds to the grim atmosphere rather than working against it.

The finishing touch was the blood effects, added after everything else was done. A few careful dabs of realistic-looking blood medium go a long way, and on Bloodborne miniatures, it feels almost mandatory.

A quick project, but one that punches well above its weight.

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