THE DISTRICT

District 218 is a small independent horror art studio working primarily in the world of tabletop gaming.

Behind it is one person, a workshop, a collection of machines, too much paint, and a persistent interest in making strange things physical.

The work ranges from hand-painted miniatures and complete armies to resin and FDM printing. Some pieces are made for the tabletop. Some are made for the shelf. Some begin as practical hobby projects and become something considerably stranger along the way.

There is no production line here.

Every painted miniature passes through my hands. Every project is approached as an object first: something that should have weight, texture, character, and evidence of the living person who made it.

Things that feel discovered rather than manufactured.

Things with histories that may or may not actually exist.

WHY THE DISTRICT EXISTS

I have always been drawn to the part of miniature gaming that exists beyond the rules.

The little objects themselves.

A figure standing on a table can be a game piece, but with enough attention it becomes something else—a character, an artifact, evidence from a world that only exists because somebody took the time to build it.

Horror works the same way.

The monster is rarely the most interesting part.

It is the locked door.

The abandoned room.

The warning written by somebody who apparently knew what was going to happen.

District 218 grew out of the collision between those two interests.

Miniatures gave me a way to make fictional things tangible.

The District gave those things somewhere to come from.