Animated Snowman by Epic Miniatures

They built it in the village square on the first snowfall of winter — and by morning, every child who had touched it was gone.

• ✔ 32mm scale resin miniature, printed fresh to order in the UK
• ✔ Supplied unpainted and ready to prime
• ✔ Compatible with D&D, Pathfinder, and all tabletop RPGs
• ✔ Equally at home on the gaming table or the display shelf

At first glance, it looks almost festive — a stout, round-bodied snowman in a battered top hat and a frayed scarf. Then you notice the clawed, skeletal hands reaching outward. The screws and bladed weapons embedded across its torso. The deeply unsettling glare carved into its face. This is not a snowman. This is something wearing the shape of one.

Epic Miniatures have sculpted this Animated Snowman as a brilliant piece of seasonal horror — part dark comedy, part genuine threat. The detail work is exceptional: the scarf wraps and frays naturally, the hat is dented and worn, and the body is pocked with protruding screws, daggers, and improvised weaponry at every angle. The sculpt captures that delicious moment of wrongness — the familiar shape made sinister — that makes for a truly memorable encounter.

Whether you're running a midwinter horror one-shot, a Ravenloft campaign where nothing is as warm as it should be, or simply want something to make your players do a double-take when you place it on the table, this miniature delivers. It also makes a brilliant centrepiece for a winter-themed display shelf or diorama.

This miniature suits adventurers who:

• Want a memorable seasonal monster that subverts expectations
• Are running a Ravenloft, Shadowfell, or winter horror campaign
• Enjoy dark humour alongside genuine menace on the tabletop
• Paint miniatures with lots of interesting surface detail and texture to work with
• Want a display piece that will prompt questions from every visitor to the hobby room

Encounter Hook: The party arrives at a snow-blanketed village to find the inhabitants barricaded indoors and a lone snowman standing in the centre of the square. It is facing the inn. It was not facing the inn an hour ago. No one has left the inn since dusk. The snowman has not moved — as far as anyone knows.

Details

Scale: 32mm (medium creature size). Supplied unpainted and unassembled if applicable. Printed in high-quality resin at our UK studio. Suitable for all standard hobby primers and paints.

Sculpted by Epic Miniatures — a prolific independent studio producing an extraordinary range of creatures, characters, and monsters for tabletop gaming.

Pairs well with other seasonal and holiday encounters and chilling Ravenloft gothic horror settings — or explore the full range from Epic Miniatures.

Every sculpt we stock is one we'd want on our own table. The cats agree, in their way.

Ready to add this adventurer to your collection? Order today and we'll print it fresh for you here in the UK.