The Hot Dust
David Soto
Founder, Dark Forge Miniatures
I paint grimdark minis in the hours between work and kids, then I write the recipe down so you can too. Army veteran. Busy dad. The voice behind The Hot Dust.
Dark Forge Miniatures is the shop floor for that habit — STLs, prints off the farm, and the notes that get a model on the table without a forty-hour week. Paint Fast. Paint Dark. Paint Yours.
The farm
Basement printers, tabletop results
The kits on this site come off a small FDM farm at home — Bambu Lab P1S machines running PLA+, with resin sculpts handed off when a miniature needs that first crisp pass. I design for support-light printing because I paint what I print, and I do not have a spare Saturday to clean a forest of trees.
World Eaters is the army that taught me to finish models instead of collecting grey plastic. The Hot Dust is the channel where I talk like a dad who still wants the army to look mean. Dark Forge is where those files and recipes live so they are searchable, not buried in a comment thread.
If you are here from a search, you want a name behind the shop. That is me. David Soto. The Hot Dust. Sotoverse Forgeworks is the house that holds this store and the tools around it.
The rest of the bench
Sister tools under Sotoverse Forgeworks
- Prompt Forge
Sketch to a 3D-ready prompt. Enhance first, then Image-to-3D, then slice.
- Handoff
Resin-ready minis to FDM support plans for the P1S and PLA+.