Pirate Construct Action by Mia Kay M3DM

Long after the captain who built her was claimed by the deep, the Pirate Construct still holds the wheel — because no one ever gave her the order to let go.

• ✔ 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 no ordinary guardian. The Pirate Construct is a seafaring automaton caught mid-action — one arm thrown back with a telescoping mast-staff, the other gripping a ship's wheel with iron resolve. Her layered skirts billow as though caught in a sea gale, and netting hangs from her waist like a trophy of every vessel she's boarded. Beneath her feet, coral and barnacled debris form the base — the ocean floor reclaiming what it's owed. The sculpt captures that unsettling quality unique to well-made constructs: something that moves like a sailor, fights like one, and yet is utterly, unmistakably not one.

For Dungeon Masters, she slots naturally into any nautical campaign — a harbour guardian, a cursed ship's figurehead given mechanical form, or the last defence of a sunken treasury. For collectors and painters, the layered detail rewards careful work: rope textures, flared skirts, sea-worn armour panels, and an expressive face with a knowing smile that suggests she was built to unnerve as much as to protect. This is a miniature equally at home on the gaming table and a display shelf.

Perfect for adventurers who:

• Run nautical D&D campaigns or seafaring TTRPG adventures
• Need a mechanised guardian, cursed construct, or Artificer-built NPC
• Want a showpiece miniature with exceptional pose dynamism and surface detail
• Are building collections that span the stranger corners of the construct creature type

Encounter Hook:
The party's rowboat scrapes against the hull of a long-derelict galleon. Below decks, they find the ship's log sealed in an iron box — and hear the creak of something mechanical ascending the companion ladder. The Pirate Construct reaches the deck, head tilted, wheel in hand. She speaks in the clipped cadence of someone reciting old orders: "Trespassers are not permitted aboard the Steadfast Meridian. Please identify your commission or prepare to be removed." The party has one round to respond before she stops waiting for an answer.

Details

Printed at 32mm scale. The model comes attached to its detailed coral and seafloor base as a single piece. Supplied unpainted and ready for priming — a small amount of cleanup may be needed as part of the printing process, and any minor marks are easily addressed before painting.

Sculpted by Mia Kay M3DM — visit their page to see more of their work.

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Pairs well with construct encounters — build out your nautical campaigns with more from Mia Kay M3DM.

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