Priming & zenithal highlighting

What we offer

Priming. Your model arrives washed, cured and primed, ready for you to paint. Priming a resin print properly is fiddly — too heavy and you lose the detail you paid for, too light and nothing sticks. We’d rather do it for you than have you fight it.

Zenithal highlighting. Black primer, then white sprayed from directly overhead. It fakes an overhead light source, so every recess reads dark and every raised edge reads bright. Two things it gets you:

• The sculpt is legible on the table straight away. A grey resin figure is a grey blob at arm’s length; a zenithal figure has depth and you can tell what it is from across the table.
• It’s the best possible base for painting later. Thin your paints and the shading is already underneath — you get most of the way to a decent tabletop standard with flat colour, because the work is done.

Plenty of people just play with them like this. It looks deliberate rather than unfinished.

What we don’t offer

Full custom paint jobs. Not right now. No colour schemes, no character matching, no display pieces, no “make it look like the box art.”

We’d rather say that plainly than take your money and disappoint you. Commission painting is a different craft and a different queue, and doing it badly alongside a printing business helps nobody. If you want a model painted properly, we’ll happily point you at painters who do it for a living.

If that changes we’ll say so here.

What it costs

Pick it on the product page — it’s an option on every model, alongside the print scale.

Model size	Primed	Zenithal
Bust	+$2	+$4
Medium	+$2	+$4
Large	+$3	+$5
Huge	+$5	+$7

Zenithal is priming plus the highlight pass, so it’s the priming price plus $2. Neither holds a shipment up much — both are quick next to the print itself.

Sending us your own file? Say whether you want it primed or zenithal’d and we’ll quote it with the print.

The licensing side, since people ask

Priming and highlighting a model we printed under licence is entirely above board — our DM Stash merchant licence covers hand-finishing the prints we sell, and this is about as far from a derivative work as finishing gets.

One thing we won’t do, on any model: scan or photograph finished work for reproduction. Photographs for listings are fine and we take plenty. Scanning a painted or printed model to reproduce it is a breach of our licence, and we’re not going near it.

Want to see one first?

Ask us and we’ll send photos of recent work.