Headless Horsewoman by Mia Kay M3DM

She rides without a word, without a warning, and without a head — the thunder of hooves the only announcement of her arrival.

• ✔ 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

The Headless Horsewoman is one of those miniatures that stops people mid-conversation at the gaming table. The sculpt captures a fully armoured female rider — plate-covered and cloaked, carrying a long blade — seated atop a powerful, heavily-maned horse mid-stride. Where a head should be, there is only the jagged, crowned edge of her pauldron and collar, the absence itself becoming the most arresting feature of the piece. The horse is beautifully detailed: a thick flowing mane, heavy feathered hooves, and a bridle hung with what appear to be carved bone fetishes. The base features scattered skulls and fragments of rubble, grounding this eerie rider in the kind of forsaken landscape she haunts.

This is a multipart model assembled and finished by us before it reaches you. You have a choice of base: a decorative scenic base that integrates the skulls and broken ground you see in the render, a plain base for those who prefer a clean surface to work from, or no base at all if you have your own basing plans in mind. Whichever you choose, the miniature arrives assembled and ready to prime.

As a painting project, this sculpt rewards patience. The horse alone offers exceptional texture across the mane, tail, and musculature, while the rider's armour has just enough surface relief — scale sections, straps, and engraved detail — to respond beautifully to a zenithal prime and contrast-based approach. The headless silhouette is dramatic even before a single brushstroke is applied.

Particularly well-suited to adventurers who:

• Run Ravenloft, Curse of Strahd, or gothic horror campaigns and need a mounted horror encounter that feels genuinely unsettling
• Want a centrepiece model for a Halloween or seasonal session with real presence on the table
• Play or DM a Shadowfell-adjacent campaign where spectral or cursed warriors make regular appearances
• Are looking for a display piece with a strong, immediately readable silhouette for the painting shelf

Encounter Hook

The village of Ashenmere has not seen daylight in three weeks. Every evening, precisely at the tolling of the cracked bell tower, a rider in black armour circles the perimeter — silent, relentless, and terribly wrong about the neck. The party has been hired to break whatever curse anchors her to this road. The trouble is, every time they get close, the horse turns to face them without being steered, and the rider raises her blade without a head to aim with.

Details

• Armoured female rider on horseback, blade in hand, headless silhouette
• Heavily detailed horse with flowing mane, feathered hooves, and bone-adorned bridle
• Available with a decorative scenic base (skulls and rubble), a plain base, or no base
• Supplied unpainted — compatible with all standard primers and hobby paints
• Sculpted by Mia Kay M3DM

Sculpted by Mia Kay M3DM — visit their collection to explore more of their work.

Pairs well with undead warbands and Ravenloft gothic horror campaigns — or explore more from Mia Kay M3DM.

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