Monodrone 05 by Novaminis

Born of Mechanus and bound to absolute order — yet this particular monodrone looks like it has received one too many conflicting directives.

• ✔ 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 05 of the Novaminis Monodrone range, and it may be the most expressive construct ever to emerge from the clockwork planes. A spherical body studded with rivets and bolts serves as its chassis, mounted on two spindly jointed legs ending in blocky geometric feet. Two articulated arms extend outward, each tipped with a starburst of radiating blade-like spines — the kind of appendages that look equally suited to data retrieval and mild havoc. The face — because yes, it has a face — wears a deeply put-upon expression, one cyclopean eye half-lidded with what can only be described as bureaucratic despair. It is, somehow, both unsettling and endearing.

In game terms, monodrones are the lowest rung of the modron hierarchy: simple, obedient, and utterly without independent thought. In practice, a table full of adventurers will spend the entire encounter arguing about whether this one looks sad. It will not help them. It will carry out its directive regardless. The sculpt captures that tension brilliantly — mechanical precision rendered with surprising personality. Equally at home as a Mechanus wanderer, a malfunctioning laboratory guardian, or a rogue construct separated from its hierarchy.

Perfect for adventurers who:

• Are running Planescape, Spelljammer, or any campaign brushing up against the Outer Planes
• Need a construct encounter that reads as genuinely strange rather than simply dangerous
• Want a centrepiece for a Mechanus-themed display or modron collection
• Love a mini that sparks a table conversation before a single die is rolled

Encounter Hook:
The party discovers a lone monodrone marching in a perfect circle in the centre of an abandoned workshop — it has been executing the same patrol pattern for two hundred years, waiting for a master who will never return. It does not acknowledge them. It does not stop. When one of the adventurers steps into its path, it attempts to politely, relentlessly, walk through them.

Details

Supplied at 32mm scale. Available with or without a plain black base — the base comes unattached and can be fixed with a small amount of glue. Each piece is printed at high resolution and arrives with supports removed; minor surface marks are possible and can be sanded away with ease before priming.

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

Mitz & Simz — two black cats and the humans they allow to run the studio.

A natural companion for construct encounters and elemental encounters enthusiasts — see more from Novaminis.

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