The solvothermal reaction of Ni(ClO4)2•6H2O with hmpH and picH in a basic MeOH solution affords blue plate shaped crystals of formula [Ni7(hmp)7.55(pic)4.45](ClO4)2•6MeOH (1•6MeOH) directly upon cooling the mother liquor. The crystals were found to be in a triclinic cell and structure solution was carried out in the space group P-1. The asymmetric unit (ASU) comprises half of the formula. The metallic skeleton describes a [Ni centred hexagon, commonly referred to as an Anderson wheel. The central Ni ion is connected to the six ring Ni ions through a total of six µ3-O atoms deriving from the hmp ligands with Ni-O-Ni angles in range ~96.4-99.0°. These O-atoms also provide the connectivity between neighbouring Ni ions around the inner rim of the [Ni ring with Ni-O-Ni angles in the range ~97.2-98.4°. The outer rim of the ring is connected by six µ2-O atoms derived from the pic ligands with Ni-O-Ni angles in range ~100.3-100.5°. Note the latter are larger than the former. All six Ni II ions are six-coordinate and in distorted octahedral geometries. The central Ni II ion possesses a {NiO6} coordination sphere, while those in the ring are {NiO4N2}. Note that the hmp/pic disorder in three of the organic ligands, as described in the crystallography details section, has no effect upon the Ni coordination spheres. The two ClO4 anions sit above and below the [Ni7] plane, with the MeOH molecules of crystallisation H-bonded to the nonbonded O-arm of the pic ligands (O•••(H)O, ~2.75-2.81 Å). In the extended structure this leads to a brickwork-like arrangement of cluster cations. The closest intermolecular Ni•••Ni distances are >7.7 Å.