Kits, paints, aftermarket, camouflage, a build log and a shopping list. Your whole stash in one app — from the box in storage to a finished model with photos.
No illustrations — switch between screens and see exactly what the app does.
On a big screen KitHub is a workbench, not just a list. Open a model and everything you need for the build is together: the model and your notes on the left; references, paints, accessories and the build with its journal on the right.
The panel on the left doesn’t move while you browse: box art, status, scale and your own note on the model (“cracked canopy, replacement from the maker”). On the right you work through the rest at your own pace.
The instructions as a PDF (the app offers them itself when it finds them), the Scalemates source, your own links and files, notes and YouTube videos. For a video you save the minute where the pro starts layering or weathering; the link opens on YouTube right there.
Photos of the real aircraft sorted into sections: the first is always Camouflage, you name the others (fuselage, undercarriage, cockpit…). Open them large, with zoom and the arrow keys.
When you paint and weather, you keep switching between the reference, a video and your own note: where the exhaust is dirtiest, how a faded finish looks on the real machine, which shade you used. With everything attached to the model you don’t dig through browser tabs and photo folders — and the paints are right there too: FS swatches on camouflage schemes, an “in stock” status on each paint and a note of your own (say “fuselage” or “cockpit”).
And when your hands are covered in paint, journal text can be dictated in a supported browser; photos from the build line up on a timeline and you refer to them in the text by number.
Type a name or the catalogue number from the box — the number is more precise. KitHub searches its own catalogue and Scalemates.com at once and fills in box art, manufacturer, scale and subject. You can paste a Scalemates link, too.
Building a conversion? Flip the switch and enter the target variant, the operator and the conversion type — the AI research on history, paints and camouflage is regenerated for the target variant. Example: a TA-7C built as an EA-7L.
Pick an in-box scheme — flag, service, unit, code and FS swatches — or create your own with up to 9 reference photos. You assign paints from your stash; whatever is missing goes straight to the shopping list.
The app tracks the start date, the last activity and how long a kit has sat in your stash; Finish build writes the date. You write the Journal with dates and photos, newest first — and you can even dictate an entry.
AI delivers the subject’s history and construction details in 30–60 seconds, even in the background; if someone has already generated the same research, it is instant and free. After the first save a rated review starts by itself.
Pacific P-47Ds wore upper surfaces in FS 33070 with undersides in FS 36173; yellow bands identified the unit…▍
AI sometimes gets things wrong — check what matters.A finished kit gets the Model gallery with big tiles; the detail shows photos in three views — Final, Process and References. Statistics tell you how many you finished, how long your builds take and what the paints cost.
A swatchbook of sixteen colour standards. For FS, RAL and RLM, click a shade to see modelling equivalents — paints you already own first, then the manufacturer’s table, and finally the closest shade by colour distance.
How equivalents are worked out ↓No magic and no AI — a lookup and a calculation. Here is exactly what happens when you click a standard’s shade in Paints: where equivalents come from, how they are worked out and where their limits are.
Click a shade of FS 595, RAL or RLM and you get modelling equivalents. The other 13 standards — from ANA to US Navy — are just a shade reference in the swatchbook: you see the code, the name and the colour, but no equivalents are looked up for them.
KitHub cannot convert straight from one brand’s paint to another (say Tamiya → Vallejo). Both directions always go through a standard: standard → manufacturers’ paints and paint → closest FS, RAL and RLM.
From whatever the two groups below find, KitHub lifts out the paints you own — In Stock or Running Low — into a group of their own at the top. The limit never trims them: nothing of yours is hidden.
A paint on the shopping list or with an empty bottle does not count as owned; it stays in its own group with a status mark.
Nothing is calculated here. The catalog links 889 paints to an FS code, 622 to RAL and 322 to RLM (as of 14 Oct 2026) — and KitHub simply looks them up.
A link comes from what the manufacturer itself states: conversion tables, official PDFs, or the product name (“Field Green FS 34097”). The largest table, AK’s, was checked code by code against the catalog, and rows that contradict themselves were flagged so nobody uses them.
KitHub takes the standard’s hex and works out the colour distance ΔE with the CIEDE2000 formula to every catalog paint that has a hex. Only what lies closer than ΔE 10 makes the list, nearest first.
Metallics, clear paints and markers are skipped — their hex doesn’t tell you how the paint looks. Exception: when the standard itself is metallic (silver, aluminium), metallics are let in.
123ΔE is the distance between two colours in Lab space. 0 is identical, around 1 the eye barely notices the difference, up to 10 the colours are still related, above 10 they are different colours.
KitHub also keeps a confidence level for every match. For the calculation: high below ΔE 3, medium below 7, low up to 10. For manufacturer matches: high below ΔE 5, otherwise medium. A paint with an unverified hex never gets more than medium. And when a manufacturer match is “high”, ΔE is not even shown — there is nothing to argue about.
A manufacturer pairs a replacement for use, not the closest shade. Measured over the catalog (October 2026): a manufacturer-confirmed paint typically lies ΔE 5.6 from the standard’s hex, and for a quarter of matches over 9.5.
The two pieces of information are independent and either can be wrong — the manufacturer’s table (it has errors too; we have seen white paired with black) and the calculation (only as good as the hex). So KitHub does not merge them into one number: it shows them separately and sorts by ΔE within each group.
In the example above: manufacturer matches go up to ΔE 11.7, closest shades are 1.4 – 2.2.In every paint’s detail you find Closest standards: the nearest code in FS, RAL and RLM, with its ΔE. There is no cutoff here — a nearest standard always exists, even when ΔE 11.6 says it is not a good one. So read the number too.
Catalog figures: 14 Oct 2026.
Everything around a build that isn’t a kit or a paint. Accessories and books are tracked just like kits — and Topics tie the kits, paints and gear of one diorama or collection together.
Find an accessory right on Scalemates — a click pre-fills the form and one button adds it as Have or Want to buy.
Cover art from Scalemates, author, publisher, ISBN, language and page count are filled in for you — and the app offers related titles as well.
A Topic (a diorama, a collection, a unit…) ties together kits, paints and gear and gives them a shared gallery, notes and links. Coloured Topic tags show on kit, paint and accessory cards — one click opens the whole Topic.
The MiniArt F13 Float Plane kit (1/48) from the stash, a note “It should look roughly like on the F13 kit’s box” and seven inspiration photos from Pinterest — everything for one build in one place.
Pinterest photos are the work of their authors. KitHub shows them only to you and keeps a link to the original pin on each.
Pinterest import
You never enter anything twice: everything marked Want to buy — kits, accessories, paints and books — lands on the shopping list by itself.
What is in progress, how much you finished this year, average and median build time and what the paints cost.
Big tiles of finished kits and custom collections with a full-screen viewer.
Glues, putties, masking and cleaners in the stash right next to your paints; the Type filter separates them from paints.
Add a manufacturer’s set in one tap — missing paints are created as In Stock right away. The detail shows what is left of the box.
Export your whole collection to a JSON file and import it again any time. You can delete the account and data.
Try the app without signing up. Sign in with Google or e-mail later and your data stays.
We are preparing a public showcase of finished builds from KitHub — with the paints used and a link to the kit. When it is ready you will send a gallery straight from the app.
Signing up is free and lifts the guest limits. The KitHub Premium subscription will remove the counts entirely — it is on its way.
When the subscription is available you will turn it on in Settings → Account. When it ends, nothing gets deleted or hidden — you just can’t add new items beyond the free account limits.
Yes. Try it as a guest without signing up; a free account gives you more room, and the upcoming KitHub Premium subscription removes the collection counts entirely.
No. You can start right away as a guest (up to 5 kits and 10 paints). If you register later with e-mail or Google, your guest data stays and becomes a permanent account; without registering it disappears when you sign out.
KitHub searches its own catalogue and Scalemates.com at once and adds box art, manufacturer, catalogue number and name.
Yes, on both. At the desk a computer is the most comfortable: a big screen with the model detail, references and notes together. A phone suits everywhere else, like the hobby shop or a club meet; in the browser you can add it to your home screen like an app, and we’re preparing apps for the App Store and Google Play. Your data is the same everywhere you sign in with the same account.
Under your account in Google Cloud’s database and storage in the EU. It is private until you publish something yourself. You can export your whole collection to a file at any time, and delete the account together with its data.
Czech and English.
Nothing is deleted or hidden. The app only stops letting you add beyond the free account limits; everything stays visible.
We are preparing it. For now it is just the Showcase page; we will announce it here once sending galleries from the app is ready.
More answers in the guide
Open KitHub in your browser and add your first model in seconds.
Try it freeNo sign-up as a guest · CZ / ENAt home, at the desk, KitHub is most comfortable on a computer. But a modeller doesn’t live only at the desk: you’re standing in front of a shelf in a hobby shop, walking a swap meet, or chatting about someone else’s build at a club meet — and that’s exactly where it helps to know what you already own.
The iPhone and Android apps will be the same KitHub, in your pocket. Same account, same kits, paints, gear and shopping list: what you log at home is on your phone, and what you jot down on the way is waiting at the desk in the evening. In front of the paint rack, check your stash for that shade. Spot a beautiful kit at a swap meet? See whether you already own it, and if not, drop it on the shopping list. A photo of a build in progress goes straight into the journal as soon as you take it.
The apps are still in the works and aren’t in the stores yet. Until then KitHub runs in the browser on your phone too, where you can add it to your home screen like an app. Your data is the same everywhere you sign in with the same account (e-mail or Google, free); as a guest it lives in just one browser.
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