Original statues
Concept to shelf. We sculpt, print and finish a piece that has never existed, in the scale you want it.
- Concept & silhouette study
- Digital sculpt
- Limited runs available
Custom shop · Est. 2019
We print
monsters.
You keep them.
Dystopian Forge builds one-off statues, busts and dioramas — resin printed at 25 microns, cleaned and pinned by hand, then painted until they stop looking printed. No mass production. No catalogue. Just your piece, on our bench.
- Pieces delivered
- 340+
- Print layer height
- 25µm
- Week lead time
- 5–11
- Hand painted
- 100%
Scale1 / 6Layer25 µmFinishOils + pigment
Original statuesCharacter bustsLit dioramasTabletop warbands1:1 wearable propsKit restorationCustom plinthsOriginal statuesCharacter bustsLit dioramasTabletop warbands1:1 wearable propsKit restorationCustom plinths
Selected work
Things that
left the shop
Every piece here was built once, for one person. Open a build to see the brief, the print plan and how the finish was put together.
All builds →Ash Warden
A 1/6 scale sentinel in cracked ceramic plate, finished with a slow burn of oxide reds under a matte ash dust pass.
Rust Cathedral
A 600 mm diorama of a flooded transept, lit from within by four warm LEDs hidden behind the fallen rose window.
The Hollow King
A 1/4 scale bust with a hand-sculpted crown, gilded with genuine leaf and then deliberately worn back to the bare resin at every contact point.
What we build
Four kinds of
commission
If your idea does not fit any of these, send it anyway. Most of the work we are proudest of started as a question about whether something was possible.
Fan builds
Your favourite character, built at display scale with the detail the source material never had room for.
- Reference-matched
- Busts & full figures
- Custom plinths
Dioramas
Multi-figure scenes with practical lighting, water effects and bases built as part of the story.
- Practical LEDs
- Water & atmosphere
- Display cases sourced
Props & restoration
Wearable 1:1 pieces built to survive a convention, and old kits brought back from the box they arrived in.
- Impact-tolerant prints
- Re-sculpt & re-pin
- Colour matching
The process
Bench to
doorstep
Four stages, with a checkpoint at the end of each one. Nothing moves forward until you have signed off on what came before it.
Full process →- 01
Brief
You send references, scale and a deadline. We come back with a plan, a fixed quote and an honest timeline.
- 02
Sculpt
Digital sculpt or kitbash, reviewed with turntable renders before a single millilitre of resin is used.
- 03
Print & prep
Resin printed at 25 microns, then cleaned, cured, seam-sanded, pinned and primed by hand.
- 04
Paint & ship
Airbrush, oils and pigments, sealed and photographed, then crated in custom foam and tracked to your door.
Inside the forge
A small shop,
on purpose
Three resin machines, one filament machine, a spray booth and a paint bench. We could take on more work by outsourcing the finish — we do not, because the finish is the part you actually look at.
- Printers3 × 8K resin, 1 × ASA-capable FDM
- Resolution25 µm layers, 19 µm XY
- FinishAirbrush, oils, dry pigment, real leaf
- ShippingCustom-cut foam, insured, tracked
Word of mouth
What clients
say after
It arrived and my first reaction was that the photos had undersold it. The weathering reads as real damage, not paint.
Eighteen models, one visual language, delivered a week early. Half my group has since sent them their armies.
They restored a kit I assumed was dead. They matched the original sculptor instead of showing off.
Commissions
Tell us what you want built
We take on a limited number of commissions each month so every piece gets the bench time it needs. Send a reference, a scale and a deadline — you will hear back within two working days.
Currently booking · Typical lead time 5–11 weeks depending on scale and finish