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. 2019
A small shop, on purpose
Dystopian Forge is a workshop, not a factory. Three resin machines, one spray booth, one 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 eleven weeks and hit it than quote six 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.
The kit
What is on
the bench
- Resin printers
- 3 × 8K mono, 19 µm XY
- Filament printer
- 1 × enclosed, ASA / PC capable
- Wash & cure
- Dual-bath IPA, 405 nm turntable cure
- Spray booth
- Extracted, filtered, temperature controlled
- Airbrushes
- 0.2 mm detail, 0.4 mm general, 0.8 mm base
- Paints
- Lacquer, acrylic, oils, dry pigment, real leaf
So far
A short
history
- 2019
Started as a single resin printer on a kitchen table, painting commissions at night.
- 2021
Moved into a dedicated workshop. First lit diorama shipped internationally.
- 2023
Added digital sculpting in-house, which ended the dependency on third-party files.
- 2025
Three hundredth piece delivered. Booking runs roughly two months ahead.
Commissions
Come see what the bench can do
Slots are limited and usually booked a couple of months out. If you have something in mind for later this year, now is the right time to ask.
Currently booking · Typical lead time 5–11 weeks depending on scale and finish