— digital miniature painting app

Paint your miniatures digitally — whether for 3d color printing or using in your personal gaming VTT of choice.

Coming soon to SteamWindows
Knight miniature painted in Mini Paint Forge with a blue cloak and steel armour Primed Painted

Why we built it

A Simple Paint tool for digital miniature collectors

Most 3D paint tools are built for character artists — UV maps, texture atlases, node trees. Mini Paint Forge is built around the way hobbyists actually paint. The tools are named after the techniques. The colour system writes your recipes. Priming is the first thing you see.

Load an model, prime it, and paint straight onto the surface. No unwrapping. No baking. Just a model and a brush.

Features

Everything on your paint desk. Plus undo.

Brushes and tools that can simulate real life and use digital techniques

  • Drybrush that catches raised detail
  • Washes that pool in recesses
  • Multiple Edge Highlighters
  • Speedpaint, Glaze & Airbrush
  • OSL glow with real occlusion
  • Sponge, Splatter, Eye & Decal tools

Priming Studio

  • One-click zenithal highlights, and many other priming methods
  • Cell-shaded comic look
  • Flat base from the paint library
  • Polygon reduction on import
  • Works on raw STLs — no UV unwrapping

Color theory built in

  • Auto shadow-to-highlight color groups
  • Artist harmony wheel
  • Real paint libraries built in, and users can create more
  • Color Analyzer from your reference photos

A real digital workflow

  • Unlimited undo & redo
  • Non-destructive layers & blend modes
  • Smart selection & masking
  • Autosave that never loses a session

Show it off

  • Looping 360° turntable GIFs
  • Transparent high-res screenshots
  • GLB / GLTF / OBJ export
  • Full-colour 3MF for 3D printing

Built for dense sculpts

  • Smooth on 500k+ triangle models
  • Native acceleration & GPU compute
  • Steam Workshop & Steam Cloud
  • Windows 10 & 11, 64 bit

Screenshots

At the digital paint table

Watch

Tutorials & timelapses

Basic Overview
Priming Studio — How to Prime Your Miniature
Shading & Highlighting Tools
Object Source Lighting & Glow Paint
Timelapse — Bite the Bullet Crocodilian Warden
Timelapse — The Beholder Miniatures Goblin

More on our YouTube channel

FAQ

Good questions

What is Mini Paint Forge?

Mini Paint Forge is a 3D digital painting app for tabletop miniatures, terrain and models. You paint directly on the mesh using real hobby techniques like priming, washing, drybrushing and edge highlighting — with unlimited undo and layers.

What file types can I import?

You can import STL, OBJ or GLB files and paint them straight away — no UV unwrapping or texture knowledge needed.

When is Mini Paint Forge coming out?

Mini Paint Forge is coming soon to Steam for Windows. Wishlist it on Steam to be notified at launch.

Can I 3D print my painted model in colour?

Yes — Mini Paint Forge exports full-colour 3MF files for slicers that support colour, as well as GLB, GLTF and OBJ with per-vertex colour.

Your next scheme starts here

Wishlist Mini Paint Forge and follow along for dev updates.