Black Dragon Wyrmling 04 by Novaminis

Even a wyrmling of the black flight carries the promise of centuries of cruelty — and this one has already learned to enjoy it.

• ✔ 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

This is pose 04 of the Novaminis Black Dragon Wyrmling range, and it captures the creature mid-stalk: wings spread wide, claws splayed, skull-like face low and snarling as though it has already decided your party is worth killing slowly. The sculpt leans into everything that makes black dragons so unsettling — the skeletal facial structure, the jagged horn crown, the spined ridge running the full length of a whip-thin tail, and those great leathery wings that arc upward with predatory intention. It reads as young and hungry, not ancient and slumbering, which makes it all the more dangerous on the table.

Black dragon wyrmlings in D&D 5e are already a genuine threat — acidic breath, ambush tactics, and an innate sadism that sets them apart from other chromatic young. This sculpt earns that reputation. Whether you're staging a lair encounter in a fetid swamp, introducing a recurring antagonist who will grow into a true campaign villain, or adding a centrepiece to a dragon-themed display shelf, this pose brings real menace to the moment. Equally well-suited to gaming and display collecting.

Well-suited to adventurers who:

• Want a wyrmling that reads as genuinely threatening, not merely cute
• Are running swamp, ruin, or Underdark encounters featuring chromatic dragons
• Are building a Novaminis Black Dragon Wyrmling collection across all four poses
• Paint detailed dragon scales, membraneous wings, and skeletal facial features
• Need a mid-campaign boss that could believably grow into something far worse

Encounter Hook:
The party tracks a string of dissolved livestock and corroded armour fragments deep into the marshland — and finds the source crouched atop a submerged merchant barge, wings raised, acid still dripping from its jaws, watching them with the patient contempt of something that knows it has the numbers wrong and is delighted about it.

Scaled to 32mm and supplied unpainted, ready for priming and painting straight away. Available with or without a plain black base — the base ships unattached and can be fixed with a small amount of glue. Minor imperfections from the printing process are possible; any residual marks are easily tidied up. As with all pieces from Mitz & Simz, each miniature is fully cured before dispatch.

Details

Sculpted by Novaminis — visit their page to see more of their work.

For any Tabaxi players out there — this one got an extra slow blink on its way out the door.

Complete your Underdark delves with dragon encounters from across our range — or find more from Novaminis.

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