I think this D&D terrain was painted with Polish space magic

polygon.com:

There’s a new brand of pre-painted tabletop gaming terrain on the market, and no one that I’ve talked to seems to know how it’s being made. Best I can figure, it’s Polish space magic.

In February this year Archon Studio (Wolfenstein The Board Game, Masters of the Universe: Battleground) announced PrismaCast, its new line of pre-painted tabletop terrain. But the pitch — that these bits would come out of the box, on a plastic sprue, but with “detail typically reserved for the industry’s elite painters” — simply sounded too good to be true. Now that I’m holding the first of its retail releases, fresh out of a box from its Polish factory, I’m fairly shook. These Dwarven Mine pre-painted half-height walls look great, with multiple shades to build up a highlight and a nice, evenly-applied wash to bring out those little details. There’s even an attempt at object source lighting, with lanterns and torches casting colorful shades and shadows along the walls.

Simply put, Archon’s terrain looks excellent — not quite as good as I could do here myself at home, but far better than anything I’ve ever seen come fresh out of the box. And I have absolutely no idea how they’ve done it, nor how they managed to make it so inexpensive. The set here costs $89.99 and covers a fair amount of the table. For a proper layout, you’ll probably want at least a couple of them.

I’d say they were doing it by hand, but the pieces are simply too consistent. There’s a machine involved somewhere in the process, that’s for sure. Trouble is that none of the professionals in the world of industrial printing that I’ve quietly talked to this week have seen anything that can do this kind of work here in the United States. They, too, are stumped.

“It is entirely our own technology and we develop it consistently,” said project and marketing manager Kamil Grochowski in an email to Polygon. “The product you have in your hand is the first in a series. So it is safe to assume that the quality will only get better!”