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Grimdark systems, monsters, and miniatures — built one drop at a time.

Fotis Mint

Self-taught sculptor · Founder

Fotis is a self-taught sculptor. He started in 2015 with a 3D printer and the fairly quick realisation that printing other people's models was less interesting than making his own, and learned to sculpt with no formal art or modelling background behind him.

What began as one person making models became a studio in mid-2015, and the catalogue has grown every month since. His work sits on the major 3D printing platforms — MyMiniFactory, Patreon, Thangs, Printables, Cults3D and MakerWorld — with one of the larger followings in the miniature scene on each of them.

Along the way the sculpts have picked up a second life as test pieces: they turn up regularly as benchmark prints in resin printer reviews, used by content creators to show what a machine can actually resolve. He has been a guest on PrusaLive, and has twice been nominated for Designer of the Year at the 3D Printing Industry Awards.

The studio is now doing the thing the sculpts were always pointing at: building games around them. The Rough & Readies, a Trench Crusade compatible warband project made with Scanner Barkly, arrives in October 2026. DeathRattle, a grimdark 5e-compatible d20 system, follows in December. Witch+Bane, an original system that drops the d20 chassis entirely, goes to Kickstarter in Q1 2027.

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