The finish is the product
Anyone can print a model. What you are paying for is the twenty hours after the print — the seams, the primer, the oils, the pigment sitting exactly where dust would actually settle.
Est. 2021
A small shop, on purpose
Dystopian Forge is a workshop, not a factory. Resin printers, a spray booth, a paint bench, and a deliberate cap on how much work is on the go at once.
Who does the work
Built by someone
who has to
look at it after
The shop started because commissioned pieces kept arriving that were technically finished and visually dead — clean prints with flat paint and no sense of having existed anywhere.
Everything here is built the opposite way round. The story comes first: where this thing has been, what it has been through, what it would look like if it were real and had been standing somewhere for a long time. The printing is just how we get a surface to tell that on.
Practically, that means a hard limit on concurrent builds, a preference for fewer and better pieces, and a willingness to turn down work that would not come out well.
How we operate
Four rules
we do not bend
One bench, one pair of hands
Nothing gets outsourced to a paint farm. If you commission a piece, the person who quoted it is the person holding the airbrush.
Honest timelines
We would rather quote long and hit it than quote short and apologise twice. If something slips, you hear it from us first.
Say no when it matters
If a brief will not work at the requested scale, or the budget will not reach the finish you are imagining, we say so before taking a deposit.
Before the printers
Two decades
of brushwork
The printing is the newer half. The painting goes back 20 years — single miniatures, whole tabletop armies, and canvas work that has nothing to do with resin at all.
That order matters. A printer is a tool you can learn in a season; knowing what a surface should look like after twenty years of weather takes considerably longer. Everything that leaves this shop is a print in service of the paint, not the other way round.
So far
A short
history
- Before 2021
20 years at the paint bench — miniatures, whole tabletop armies, canvas. No printers, just brushes.
- 2021
The first resin printer arrived. Two decades of painting finally had something of its own to sit on.
- 2026
Dystopian Forge opens for commissions.
Commissions
Come see what the bench can do
Only a few builds run at once, by choice. If you have something in mind, send it over and we will tell you honestly what it would take.
Currently booking · Typical lead time 5–11 weeks depending on scale and finish