Tome Mimic by Mia Kay M3DM
Regular price
£5.00
Description
The spine looked worn from use, the leather cracked in all the right places — only when the rogue reached for it did the jaws open and the antlers rise.
- ✔ Resin terrain piece, printed fresh to order in the UK
- ✔ Supplied unpainted — primes and paints easily
- ✔ Compatible with standard 28mm–32mm miniature scales
- ✔ Works on the gaming table and as part of a display diorama
The Tome Mimic is one of those encounters that lives in a party's memory long after the session ends. This sculpt captures two distinct forms of that deception: a monstrous, armoured maw bursting from a cobblestone base — jaw stretched wide, rows of jagged teeth bared — and a second piece depicting a gnarled, root-bound antler structure with a serpentine tendril coiled through its centre, perfect for representing the creature mid-transformation or used as dungeon scatter terrain in its own right. Both are rendered in crisp, unpainted resin, ready for priming and painting.
Mimics work best as moments of drama — and this one gives you the sculptural detail to make that moment land. The open-jawed piece sits low to the ground on a flagstone base, as though something has erupted from the floor mid-lunge. The antlered tendril piece stands tall and unnerving, suited equally to cursed libraries, druid groves turned wrong, or the shadowy back shelves of a lich's study.
Perfect for adventurers who:
- Run dungeon encounters that subvert player expectations
- Want versatile scatter terrain that doubles as a boss reveal
- Are building a library, study, or cursed archive encounter space
- Enjoy painting character pieces with unusual textures — teeth, bark, coiling tendrils
- Collect distinctive monster miniatures for display alongside gaming use
Encounter Hook:
The party has been sent to retrieve a specific volume from the Archivist's sealed reading room. The room contains exactly seventeen books. Sixteen are mundane. One has not moved in forty years — because it has been choosing not to. The moment the cleric casts Detect Magic, every book in the room turns its spine to face her.
Details
What's included:
Two separate sculpts are shown — the open-jawed mimic head on a cobblestone base, and the antlered tendril piece on a root base. Both are printed at 32mm scale. The based piece prints as a single unit; the plain base variant can be detached and reattached with a small amount of adhesive. Pieces arrive with supports removed; minor marks from the printing process may occasionally be present and are easily tidied up before painting.
Sculpted by Mia Kay M3DM — visit their page to see more of their work.
Two cats. One studio. Endless tiny adventurers.
Pairs well with mimic encounters — build out your Underdark delves with more from Mia Kay M3DM.
Ready to add this adventurer to your collection? Order today and we'll print it fresh for you here in the UK. 🐾🐈⬛🎲
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