About DIORAO

Two benches, one studio.

DIORAO was built by two hobbyists who refused to stop at painting other people’s models.

Andrzej and Sebastian spent years at their own tables — priming, basecoating, layering, varnishing — before the printers showed up. Between them they’ve logged thousands of hours in 3D printing, model production, and the tabletop hobby industry. DIORAO is what happens when that experience turns into a studio: miniatures sculpted and printed for people who already know the difference between a good cast and a great one.

Why the studio exists

The miniature market splits into two camps. On one side: cheap wargaming commodities — fast, functional, interchangeable. On the other: fine-art sculpts at €300+, painted and signed, behind glass. Neither serves the modeler who wants a specific figure — a Spartan at Thermopylae, a Grenadier at Omaha, a Husaria at Vienna — at collector-grade detail but buildable-bench price.

That’s the gap. DIORAO fills it.

What we make

Historical diorama figurines, cast digitally from period photography and scholarly reconstruction, printed at 16K precision in ABS-Like resin, at the five classic modeling scales: 1:72, 1:48, 1:35, 1:24, 1:16.

The catalog spans nine historical wings:

• Antiquity — classical Greece, Rome, the chariot wars
• Medieval — knights, men-at-arms, crusaders, pike blocks
• Napoleonic — line infantry, bearskins, hussars, the Grande Armée
• Colonial — pith helmets, Zulu impis, Foreign Legion, frontier columns
• World War I — Brodies, Stahlhelms, trench kit, the first tanks
• World War II — Wehrmacht, Red Army, US infantry, paras, marines
• Cold War — forty-four years of silent war, from Fulda to Hanoi
• Modern — MICH helmets, plate carriers, NVG mounts, current conflicts
• Apocalypse — wasteland survivors, zombie hordes, alt-history what-ifs

If we didn’t find the reference, we didn’t sculpt it.

How we work

1. Research. Period photography, uniform regulations, regimental records, museum references. Every product ships with a Maker’s Note citing what informed the sculpt.
2. Sculpt. High-poly digital work (ZBrush + Blender), checked against reference at every pass. No guesswork, no “WW2 guy” generics.
3. Slice & support. Calibrated for 16K resolution, supports tuned by scale and pose. The hard work happens before the print starts.
4. Print. ABS-Like resin — tougher than standard photopolymer, holds fine detail to the edge, primes and paints cleanly with enamels or acrylics.
5. QC & ship. Every piece inspected under magnification before it leaves the Cracow studio. Ships worldwide, tracked, packed for the hobby.

Who this is for

We’re not just printing miniatures — we’re part of the same hobby. Painters. Tabletop gamers. Collectors. History readers. The people we print for are the people we sit next to at conventions.

That’s why the standards don’t slip: every figure we ship is a figure we’d keep in our own display cabinet.

Why DIORAO

The name comes from the Ancient Greek διορώ — dioráō — meaning to see through, to discern, to see clearly. It’s the thesis of the studio: history lives in specifics, and a well-built diorama is how you see those specifics clearly.

You get:

• Detail that rewards the time you put into painting — stitching, buckles, regimental insignia, facial hair at 1:16
• Accuracy grounded in primary sources, not Pinterest moodboards
• Consistency across scales and eras, so figures share a bench without looking mismatched
• Price that lets you build a scene, not one figure at a time

All history is specific. The diorama makes it visible.

ANDRZEJ · SEBASTIAN · CRACOW · MMXXVI