Kits are your main collection — every box you own, want to buy, or are currently building.
List and kit card
The kit list is grouped by status — Paused, In Progress, Ready to Build, In Stock,
Want to Buy, Finished, and Scrapyard — each group shows a count. You can hide the
Finished and Scrapyard groups in Settings if they just clutter the list for you.
The card shows scale, manufacturer, catalogue number, and name. If you’re building a conversion
(a build-up into a different variant than the one on the box), the app shows the target variant
instead of the box name, with a purple “CONVERSION” badge, and the original name in small print
underneath.
Clickable badges on the card show the number of assigned paints, accessories, markings, and
resources — click one to jump straight to that section — plus the review score (say 8/10). For
kits in progress, the card shows the progress percentage you set in Build → Progress. When the
app’s catalogue has newer data for the kit (markings, descriptions…), the card points it out — just
open the kit and it updates.
A kit you own can be marked For sale with a toggle on the card. Only Want to Buy kits have a
trash can on the card; delete a kit you own from its detail.
The Filters panel offers sorting (Newest / Alphabetical), category, status, review score
(9+ / 7+), scale, manufacturer, and For sale.
You can also switch to a compact, single-line card layout — the toggle is in Settings.
Kit detail
The kit detail view has four tabs: Info, Paints, Accessories, and Build. The Build
tab unlocks once the kit’s status is In progress, On hold, or Finished. Delete a saved kit with the
trash can next to the Close button — the app asks first.
For an existing kit, changes save automatically — a couple of seconds after you stop typing or
add something (a photo, an accessory, a paint), and at the latest when you close the window. The
footer shows “Saving automatically…” and then “Saved!”. You only need the Save button for a
new kit (it is created by it) and when automatic saving fails — for example because you are at
the free plan’s limit. The app says so in the bar, the button comes back, and clicking Save shows
you the reason. A deleted photo is removed from storage right away and can’t be restored.
When the app’s shared catalogue updates in the background (say, it fills in a missing marking
scheme), your open kit quietly picks up the update — it doesn’t count as an unsaved change of
yours.
Info — find and add a kit
This search finds one specific kit you own or want to buy — it’s not a browsable catalogue
of every kit out there. You won’t find “every 1/48 Spitfire” or “every Tamiya kit” here —
type the exact kit from the box you have at home or are looking for, or enter the catalogue
number straight away if you know it — the app treats it as a more precise lead than the name,
and once you fill it in the Name field locks for a moment (keeps the search free of noise).
You only need to fill in a Name or a catalogue number (not both), and the app searches its
own catalogue and Scalemates.com at the same time — it merges results from both sources into
one list, and catalogue entries also show what the app already has for them (a review, paint
schemes, paint research). The Include figures and accessories toggle widens the search
beyond regular kits. You can also paste a Scalemates link directly — the app pulls the kit’s
data straight from it. Scale uses the same kind of field as Brand (type and the app suggests a
match), and a colon-style entry (“1:48”) gets auto-corrected to the app’s preferred slash form.
Search results come with a box image, manufacturer, catalogue number, and name; kits you already
own are flagged “Already in stock”. If the manufacturer or catalogue number you’re entering matches
something the app already knows under a different kit, you’ll get a yellow warning about a possible
duplicate.
If the app can’t find the kit in its catalogue or on Scalemates, it offers to send a request to
the admin to take a look at it.
Info — managing the kit and conversions
Once a kit is added, the app shows its status — In Stock, Ready to Build, In Progress,
Paused, Finished, Want to Buy, or Scrapyard. Getting to a build happens in two
steps:
Build prep — the app shows a readiness checklist (chosen scheme, how many paints from the
list you have in stock, how many accessories you own) and a “Ready to build” button. The
button always works — the app just highlights it green once you’ve picked a scheme — and
clicking it moves the kit to Ready to Build.
Start build — the app offers a “Start building” button; clicking it moves the kit to In
Progress, records the start date, and takes you straight to the Build tab.
If you’re building a conversion — a build-up into a different variant than the box — switch on
“Building as a conversion” and the app gives you fields for the target variant, operator, and
conversion type. Toggling a conversion on or off tells the app to regenerate the AI research on
history, paints, and markings for the new target — older results are discarded.
Resources & photos
You can attach links, files, YouTube videos (with an optional timestamp), or notes to any kit — the
app uses one shared form for this whether you add them from Info or directly from the Build tab. It
also offers a link to the build instructions automatically, if it managed to find them online.
In the same section below that you will also find reference photos — grouped into sections
(Camouflage always comes first, add others with New section, e.g. Fuselage or Cockpit). They are
available even for a kit you are not building yet, and also show up in Build → Resources.
🤖 History and technical background
The Search button triggers an AI that writes up the historical and technical background of your
subject — for a conversion, focused on the target variant. Before dispatching a new request, the
app first checks whether another user already generated the same research — if so, you get it
instantly, for free. The result is delivered even in the background, possibly after you’ve closed
the app — expect 30–60 seconds. If the search fails or times out, the button stays available so you
can try again.
Colour-standard codes (FS/RAL/RLM) in the text are underlined — click one to open a comparison and
add that paint straight to your inventory.
Codes of specific modelling paints (say AK RC882 or Gunze H330) are coloured by your stock in this
and every other AI text on the kit — green = in stock, orange = running low, purple = you don’t
have it. Clicking one shows what the code really is according to the catalogue, with an Add
button (or a note that the kit already has it).
🤖 Review and rating
The app generates a review on its own, the first time you save a new kit into your stock — you
don’t need to click anything. The generated text includes a date, the full review, and a summary of
pros and cons; the app turns the overall score (X/10) into a star rating. If generating fails, the
app offers a Generate review button. If the AI just doesn’t respond in time, the review arrives
on its own once it’s ready.
Paints on a kit
Add a paint to a kit through live search across the catalogue (by code or name), or browse the full
catalogue of a specific brand. Results come with a colour swatch and whether you already own that
paint.
A custom mix can be created new for the kit, linked from an existing one, or cloned as a copy. The
app groups paints in the list by brand and shows the status (in stock/running low/wishlist) for
each. Removing a paint from a kit also removes it from your whole inventory — but only if you don’t
have it used anywhere else.
🤖 AI research on paints and markings
Two separate AI features are available for a selected kit: Standards and colours suggests
FS/RAL codes and a weathering shade based on the variant and era of your kit; Marking breakdown
does an in-depth analysis of a specific selected scheme (you need a scheme picked first, or the
button stays disabled). Both work the same way as History — the app checks the shared cache first
and delivers the result even in the background. If the research fails or times out, the start
button stays so you can try again right away.
Accessories on a kit
The kit shows an overview of how many accessories you own in total and how many are on your
wishlist. Accessories you already have in your general Gear are offered for assignment straight
to this kit. You can also add a custom accessory by hand (name, manufacturer, catalogue number,
type, status, link), or have the app search Scalemates for you, pre-filled with the kit’s name.
If the kit’s review (see above) recommends specific accessories, the app automatically lists them
as suggestions parsed from that review text — it’s not a separate AI feature, just reading text
that already exists.
Kit gallery
Open the gallery from the app’s header — it shows every kit you own plus any custom photo
collections you create. You can search kits, filter them by status, and hide the ones without any
photos yet with With photos only. For each kit, the app separates three views: Final (finished-model
photos you can edit), Process (photos from the build log), and Reference (reference photos
for the active marking scheme).
With a subscription you can upload up to 20 photos to a kit’s finished gallery, up to 30
to a custom collection, and up to 15 resources (attachments) per kit. A free account has lower
caps and a guest can’t upload anything — see the sign-in, registration, and guest mode chapter.
Build
The Build tab has three sub-tabs — Resources, Progress, and Log — and unlocks once the
kit’s status is In progress, On hold, or Finished.
Build — Resources
You add items here through the same form as in Info — a link, file, YouTube video, or note. The app
additionally shows reference photos for the actively selected marking scheme. Reference photos and
their sections are the same as in the Resources & photos section in Info — what you add in one
place appears in the other.
Build — Progress
The app shows the build’s start date and time, the build time (without pauses — time spent Paused
doesn’t count), and how long the kit has been in your stash (since you got it, not since you added
it to your wishlist). The “Finish build” button is always unlocked — once you confirm, the app
sets the kit’s status to Finished and records the date.
You record progress with a slider (0–100 %, the number you then see on the kit card) and a
list of build phases for the kit’s type (aircraft, vehicle, ship…). Phases go in order: ticking
a phase also ticks the earlier ones and moves the slider up to that phase; unticking one also
unticks the later ones. Write the details of your build in the Log (see below).
Build (WIP) photos are capped at 40 per kit with a subscription, lower on a free account (see
the sign-in, registration, and guest mode chapter).
Build — Log
The Log is entirely yours — the app never touches it on its own. Each entry has a date, text, and a
number (#1, #2…) — newest entries appear first. Edit a saved entry with Edit in the expanded
entry; deleting an entry (along with its photos) asks you to confirm. You can also dictate the text using your microphone (the app
uses your browser’s own speech recognition for this, not its own AI) — the button only appears in
browsers that support it. Dictation is two-step: the Dictate button starts recording and turns
into a red Stop dictation button — only once you press it again does the transcript land in the
field and the app unlocks saving the entry.
You can attach photos to each entry — the app asks whether the photo belongs on the build
timeline or among the reference photos in one of the sections. Photos in an entry are
numbered: tap a thumbnail in the form (or drag a photo into the text) and the app inserts a reference
that turns into a clickable link; a photo that no longer exists is struck through. (References are
recognised in Czech wording — “foto 3”, “foto 1.2”, “fotka 2 záznamu 1”.) The app also keeps a
chronological Build gallery — a strip of every build photo, including the ones you added
directly to a specific log entry.
Paint scheme variants (markings)
The Paints tab also holds management of paint scheme variants — sometimes called “markings” —
complete with flag, service, code, colour swatches, and a reference photo. Clicking “Select this
marking” sets the active scheme, which then affects Resources and exports.
For new or not-yet-verified kits, the app quietly fills in structured schemes in the background on
its own — from the decal sheet on Scalemates, or from the kit’s instructions. When there’s no such
source for a kit, the app doesn’t make markings up; you add them by hand from the instructions.
Schemes from the box (decal sheet or instructions) can’t be edited directly — the app only lets you
clone them into your own copy. For a conversion, the app hides the box schemes and keeps only yours. You can add a custom marking by hand (country,
service, serial number, code, year, unit, colours) and attach up to 9 reference photos to it.
The app can also 🤖 write a historical description of a specific marking, and for colour-standard
codes it shows you modelling equivalents in three groups — In my stash, Manufacturer says
(the manufacturer’s conversion table), and Closest shade (a colour-distance calculation, not
AI) — with the option to add that paint right away.
On a computer
Kits are your main collection — every box you own, want to buy, or are currently building.
Board and kit card
On desktop the app shows Kits as a board — columns by status: Want to Buy, In Stock,
Ready to Build, In Progress, Paused, Finished, and Scrapyard. Each column shows
a count, and an empty column says “Empty”. You can hide the Finished and Scrapyard columns in
Settings if they just clutter the board.
The card shows the box image (or a placeholder icon), manufacturer, scale, and name; click it to
open the detail. A kit in progress has a progress bar on its card (the percentage from Build →
Progress); the card also shows the review score and the difficulty with an estimated build time
from the review. Hover over a card and actions appear: For sale (for kits other than Want to
Buy — toggles the For sale mark, and the card then shows a badge) and a trash can (only for
kits in Want to Buy — the app asks before deleting). To delete a kit you own, open its detail and
use Delete model in the top right.
Filters and sorting live in the left-hand menu under Kits: Sort by, Category,
Review score, Scale, Manufacturer, and For sale. The groups start collapsed, active
filters show a count and a Clear all button, and search is in the top bar. When you click the
badge with the number of kits on a paint in Paints, the board filters by that paint — a bar at the
top reminds you, with a ✕ Clear button.
Kit detail
On desktop the kit detail is a full page. On the left is a persistent panel with the image, the kit’s
status (change it from the menu by the badge), name, manufacturer, catalogue number, scale, notes,
and the Topic tag. On the right the sections Info, Paints, Accessories, and Build
sit one under another — the pills at the top scroll you to them. The Build section unlocks once
the kit’s status is In progress, On hold, or Finished; while it’s locked, the app says what to do.
For an existing kit, changes save automatically — a couple of seconds after you stop typing or
add something (a photo, an accessory, a paint), and at the latest when you close. The top bar shows
“Saving automatically…” and then “Saved!”. You only need the Save button for a new kit (it
is created by it) and when automatic saving fails — for example because you are at the free plan’s
limit. The app says so in the bar, the button comes back, and clicking Save shows you the reason. A
deleted photo is removed from storage right away and can’t be restored.
When the app’s shared catalogue updates in the background (say, it fills in a missing marking
scheme), your open kit quietly picks up the update — it doesn’t count as an unsaved change of
yours.
Info — find and add a kit
This search finds one specific kit you own or want to buy — it’s not a browsable catalogue
of every kit out there. You won’t find “every 1/48 Spitfire” or “every Tamiya kit” here —
type the exact kit from the box you have at home or are looking for, or enter the catalogue
number straight away if you know it — the app treats it as a more precise lead than the name,
and once you fill it in the Name field locks for a moment (keeps the search free of noise).
You only need to fill in a Name or a catalogue number (not both), and the app searches its
own catalogue and Scalemates.com at the same time — it merges results from both sources into
one list, and catalogue entries also show what the app already has for them (a review, paint
schemes, paint research). The Include figures and accessories toggle widens the search
beyond regular kits. You can also paste a Scalemates link directly — the app pulls the kit’s
data straight from it. Scale uses the same kind of field as Brand (type and the app suggests a
match), and a colon-style entry (“1:48”) gets auto-corrected to the app’s preferred slash form.
Search results come with a box image, manufacturer, catalogue number, and name; kits you already
own are flagged “Already in stock”. If the manufacturer or catalogue number you’re entering matches
something the app already knows under a different kit, you’ll get a yellow warning about a possible
duplicate.
If the app can’t find the kit in its catalogue or on Scalemates, it offers to send a request to
the admin to take a look at it.
Info — managing the kit and conversions
Once a kit is added, the app shows its status — In Stock, Ready to Build, In Progress,
Paused, Finished, Want to Buy, or Scrapyard. Getting to a build happens in two
steps:
Build prep — the app shows a readiness checklist (chosen scheme, how many paints from the
list you have in stock, how many accessories you own) and a “Ready to build” button. The
button always works — the app just highlights it green once you’ve picked a scheme — and
clicking it moves the kit to Ready to Build.
Start build — the app offers a “Start building” button; clicking it moves the kit to In
Progress, records the start date, and takes you straight to the Build section.
If you’re building a conversion — a build-up into a different variant than the box — switch on
“Building as a conversion” and the app gives you fields for the target variant, operator, and
conversion type. Toggling a conversion on or off tells the app to regenerate the AI research on
history, paints, and markings for the new target — older results are discarded.
Resources & photos
You can attach links, files, YouTube videos (with an optional timestamp), or notes to any kit — the
app uses one shared form for this whether you add them from Info or directly from the Build tab. It
also offers a link to the build instructions automatically, if it managed to find them online.
In the same section below that you will also find reference photos — grouped into sections
(Camouflage always comes first, add others with New section, e.g. Fuselage or Cockpit). They are
available even for a kit you are not building yet, and also show up in Build → Resources.
🤖 History and technical background
The Search button triggers an AI that writes up the historical and technical background of your
subject — for a conversion, focused on the target variant. Before dispatching a new request, the
app first checks whether another user already generated the same research — if so, you get it
instantly, for free. The result is delivered even in the background, possibly after you’ve closed
the app — expect 30–60 seconds. If the search fails or times out, the button stays available so you
can try again.
Colour-standard codes (FS/RAL/RLM) in the text are underlined — click one to open a comparison and
add that paint straight to your inventory.
Codes of specific modelling paints (say AK RC882 or Gunze H330) are coloured by your stock in this
and every other AI text on the kit — green = in stock, orange = running low, purple = you don’t
have it. Clicking one shows what the code really is according to the catalogue, with an Add
button (or a note that the kit already has it).
🤖 Review and rating
The app generates a review on its own, the first time you save a new kit into your stock — you
don’t need to click anything. The generated text includes a date, the full review, and a summary of
pros and cons; the app turns the overall score (X/10) into a star rating. If generating fails, the
app offers a Generate review button. If the AI just doesn’t respond in time, the review arrives
on its own once it’s ready.
Paints on a kit
Add a paint to a kit through live search across the catalogue (by code or name), or browse the full
catalogue of a specific brand. Results come with a colour swatch and whether you already own that
paint.
A custom mix can be created new for the kit, linked from an existing one, or cloned as a copy. The
app groups paints in the list by brand and shows the status (in stock/running low/wishlist) for
each. Removing a paint from a kit also removes it from your whole inventory — but only if you don’t
have it used anywhere else.
🤖 AI research on paints and markings
Two separate AI features are available for a selected kit: Standards and colours suggests
FS/RAL codes and a weathering shade based on the variant and era of your kit; Marking breakdown
does an in-depth analysis of a specific selected scheme (you need a scheme picked first, or the
button stays disabled). Both work the same way as History — the app checks the shared cache first
and delivers the result even in the background. If the research fails or times out, the start
button stays so you can try again right away.
Accessories on a kit
The kit shows an overview of how many accessories you own in total and how many are on your
wishlist. Accessories you already have in your general Gear are offered for assignment straight
to this kit. You can also add a custom accessory by hand (name, manufacturer, catalogue number,
type, status, link), or have the app search Scalemates for you, pre-filled with the kit’s name.
If the kit’s review (see above) recommends specific accessories, the app automatically lists them
as suggestions parsed from that review text — it’s not a separate AI feature, just reading text
that already exists.
Kit gallery
On desktop the gallery is a page of its own — open it with Kit gallery in the left-hand menu,
which is visible from every view. It has two levels.
The showcase offers two views: Models and collections — big tiles of kits with photos and
of your custom collections (kits without photos stay hidden until you turn on “Also show models
without photos”) — and All photos, a wall of all your finished-model photos across kits and
collections, newest first. You can search and filter by status in both views; create a new
collection with the New collection button.
The detail of a kit or collection shows one large photo across the whole area with a strip of
thumbnails beneath it. Browse with the arrows or the keyboard, and click the photo to open it full
screen. For each kit, the app separates three views: Final (finished-model photos you can
edit), Process (photos from the build log), and Reference (reference photos for the active
marking scheme). The detail opens on Final; if it has no photos yet, the app opens the first view
that does. Go back to the showcase with the Gallery button or the Esc key. The Gallery
button in Build opens the gallery straight on this kit’s Process view. For an already-saved kit, changes are
autosaved; the app first asks about unsaved changes only for a new kit or if autosave fails (say,
at the free-plan cap).
With a subscription you can upload up to 20 photos to a kit’s finished gallery, up to 30
to a custom collection, and up to 15 resources (attachments) per kit. A free account has lower
caps and a guest can’t upload anything — see the sign-in, registration, and guest mode chapter.
Build
The Build section has three sub-tabs — Resources, Progress, and Log — and unlocks once the
kit’s status is In progress, On hold, or Finished.
Build — Resources
You add items here through the same form as in Info — a link, file, YouTube video, or note. The app
additionally shows reference photos for the actively selected marking scheme. Reference photos and
their sections are the same as in the Resources & photos section in Info — what you add in one
place appears in the other.
Build — Progress
The app shows the build’s start date and time, the build time (without pauses — time spent Paused
doesn’t count), and how long the kit has been in your stash (since you got it, not since you added
it to your wishlist). The “Finish build” button is always unlocked — once you confirm, the app
sets the kit’s status to Finished and records the date.
You record progress with a slider (0–100 %, the number you then see on the kit card) and a
list of build phases for the kit’s type (aircraft, vehicle, ship…). Phases go in order: ticking
a phase also ticks the earlier ones and moves the slider up to that phase; unticking one also
unticks the later ones. Write the details of your build in the Log (see below).
Build (WIP) photos are capped at 40 per kit with a subscription, lower on a free account (see
the sign-in, registration, and guest mode chapter).
Build — Log
The Log is entirely yours — the app never touches it on its own. Each entry has a date, text, and a
number (#1, #2…) — newest entries appear first. Edit a saved entry with Edit in the expanded
entry; deleting an entry (along with its photos) asks you to confirm. You can also dictate the text using your microphone (the app
uses your browser’s own speech recognition for this, not its own AI) — the button only appears in
browsers that support it. Dictation is two-step: the Dictate button starts recording and turns
into a red Stop dictation button — only once you press it again does the transcript land in the
field and the app unlocks saving the entry.
You can attach photos to each entry — the app asks whether the photo belongs on the build
timeline or among the reference photos in one of the sections. Photos in an entry are
numbered: tap a thumbnail in the form (or drag a photo into the text) and the app inserts a reference
that turns into a clickable link; a photo that no longer exists is struck through. (References are
recognised in Czech wording — “foto 3”, “foto 1.2”, “fotka 2 záznamu 1”.) The app also keeps a
chronological Build gallery — a strip of every build photo, including the ones you added
directly to a specific log entry.
Paint scheme variants (markings)
The Paints section also holds management of paint scheme variants — sometimes called “markings” —
complete with flag, service, code, colour swatches, and a reference photo. Clicking “Select this
marking” sets the active scheme, which then affects Resources and exports.
For new or not-yet-verified kits, the app quietly fills in structured schemes in the background on
its own — from the decal sheet on Scalemates, or from the kit’s instructions. When there’s no such
source for a kit, the app doesn’t make markings up; you add them by hand from the instructions.
Schemes from the box (decal sheet or instructions) can’t be edited directly — the app only lets you
clone them into your own copy. For a conversion, the app hides the box schemes and keeps only yours. You can add a custom marking by hand (country,
service, serial number, code, year, unit, colours) and attach up to 9 reference photos to it.
The app can also 🤖 write a historical description of a specific marking, and for colour-standard
codes it shows you modelling equivalents in three groups — In my stash, Manufacturer says
(the manufacturer’s conversion table), and Closest shade (a colour-distance calculation, not
AI) — with the option to add that paint right away.