StarCraft Tabletop Miniatures Offer Painters Terran, Zerg, and Protoss Sculpt Detail

Archon Studio crossed the Atlantic with 500 Founders Edition copies of StarCraft: Tabletop Miniatures Game and left AdeptiCon empty-handed. The Polish studio sold through its entire show allocation, roughly $100,000 worth of stock, by day three of the convention, making it one of the most talked-about debuts of the show. The first retail waves are now slated for late April through May 2026, with CEO Jarek Ewertowski targeting $199 for the Two-Player Starter Set and $109 for the faction-specific Protoss Starter Set.

The sell-out speed made sense to anyone who got hands-on time with the models. At 32mm scale and cast in high-quality HIPS plastic, the three factions arrive with meaningfully different surface languages that require genuinely different approaches from the first coat down. Terran infantry carry sharply defined armor plate edges purpose-built for pin-washes and oil-stain streaking; the geometry rewards exactly the kind of grimy, industrial finish that has made Warhammer 40,000 vehicle painters reach for AK Interactive and Mig productions for decades. Zerg carapaces go in the opposite direction entirely, with membranous organic textures that reward multi-layer glazes and wet-blending to build biological coloration from the inside out. Protoss models are a third register altogether: crystalline, faceted geometry where airbrush basecoats will do the work that a brush simply cannot replicate smoothly across large plated surfaces.

The Two-Player Starter Set is built to shorten the distance between unboxing and painting, with bases pre-drilled with magnet slots and clear plastic parts in the box. The Protoss: Zeratul miniature expansion was also on the AdeptiCon floor alongside the starter sets, giving painters a preview of what hero-scale detail looks like in the line.

The release cadence runs through the year. Heavy Support units for all three factions follow in June, Psionic units and a new Hero per faction land in August, and a narrative campaign window opens between August and October. Archon has also signaled that community paint work and photography shared through its channels will feed directly into ongoing product communication, which means early painters have a genuine avenue to shape how the line is presented publicly.

For painters still deciding between a Founders Edition preorder at their FLGS and waiting on general retail, the faction sculpting is the deciding variable: these three armies do not just play at different speeds, they paint at entirely different frequencies.