Cipher Studios Rub Their Magic Lamp for Hell Dorado
April 24, 2012 by brennon
A whole raft of New Miniatures are on their way from Cipher Studios for Hell Dorado! Check out these mysterious and magical looking models below...
Some certainly good looking miniatures here from Hell Dorado. I love the way the genie has been painted, it's certainly bought out all the movement in the model. But if you're looking for something more monstrous, how about these?
Now that Flesh Demon is utterly disgusting! I hope you're not eating when you saw that picture. Such a departure from the sleek looking miniatures above it. Of course with all these nasties around you're going to need a saintly man to deal with it...
The Warrior Priest of the Hell Dorado world perhaps? Over all these are some fantastic miniatures from Cipher Studios and I bet some of you already have a favourite.
What do you think of these new models?
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I’m loving the djinn… And the fantastic paintjob of all these models.
They really are well painted – the freehand on the Kuan Yin’s belt cloth and the scarily realistic tones on the Flesh Demon are epic. The sculpts are very fine too, I really like the way the djinn is screaming but it’s just a void there…very modern horror. The award for the most horrific (in a good way) model here though has to go to that Flesh Demon. Anyone else remember all the failed experiments to bring back Ripley in Alien Resurrection? It looks just like those, just a mass of malformed flesh and limbs and teeth. Not a single… Read more »
There is so many good looking models. Its hard to pick one that is over all others in my opinion but one in second picture could be my favorite.
I can practically hear an inhuman shriek in the back of my head when I look at the djinn.
The game is also fantastic. I’ve been playing since it was published by Asmodee (in France). We had a lot of problems getting the miniatures in Quebec, though…
I’d so love to try it out. I really like the setting, the sheer absurdity of it; if the gates of hell really opened in the 16th century, a crusade there is totally what the West would cook up.
I also like how the original production was quite balsy with the imagery and religious themes and I really hope it doesn’t get watered-down with time. Does anyone know; is one particular illustration involving an angel and a Westerner soldier still in the latest edition of the book?
That Flesh Demon is real trippy. The Kuan Yin is rather nice. Only thing I see that I have issue with is the snake body is a little thick for a female monster.
I need that Djinn!
I have a 4th Edition Al-Quadim adventure crying out for it!!!
Thanks Cipher for re-releasing these awesome models! Although I already own three of these, I think I could pick up the flesh daemon. Nasty little bugger, especially gamewise. Still waiting for Kartikeya, perhaps my favourite miniature of all time. Got one already, but I should get another one!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but is this the game set in and around the Thirty Years War?
Seems like an era that would lend itsself well to horror gaming.
IIRC you’re quite correct. If I’m not mistaken the atrocities of war are actually instrumental in the opening of the Gates and when the westerners declare a crusade into the pit, their zeal is only outmatched by their cruelty; not all denizens of hell are evil per-se, but you try explaining that to a mob of religious fanatics. Another aspect besides the background that I really like are the terrain possibilities, where you can truly go surreal. I remember some terrain galleries on the original french site, but can’t find them ATM. Suffice to say piles of skulls, torture pillars,… Read more »
I think I will ask my partner to play a game soon… I miss this game and the mood around it!