The app keeps paints as a separate, shared inventory across your whole collection — a paint you add
once can be used on any kit, the app doesn’t create a fresh copy per kit. This tab has no AI feature
at all — everything here is either catalogue/curated data or a plain calculation.
Entry points
In the header (while in the Paints view) you’ll find a switch to the Catalogue (browse by
brand), to Sets, and to the Standards swatch chart, a button to quickly add a new paint (straight
into In Stock), a quick add-to-shopping-list shortcut, and search/filters over your own inventory. The filter panel also has Model — a dropdown of every model
that has a paint assigned; after picking one, only its paints are shown.
Your inventory
Paints are split into two sections — what you have in stock, and what’s on your shopping list. A
paint marked “Empty” stays under “In stock” until you switch it manually — the app never moves it
for you.
The paint card shows a colour swatch (with a finish-appropriate sheen), code, name, brand, series,
and type; custom mixes additionally get a yellow “Mix” tag. For a mix, the app derives its status
from whether you have every ingredient in stock (Ready to mix / Recipe only / Missing ingredients).
The app also shows two separate counters on a paint — how many times it’s used across your kits,
and, separately, how many kits have it explicitly assigned to their build.
Adding and editing a paint
A new paint has two tabs — Product (a real paint from a manufacturer’s catalogue) and Custom
mix (your own blend); the app offers both for a new entry, and jumps straight to the matching one
for an existing paint. Switching tabs is treated as a decision — any unsaved work in the other tab
is discarded.
The app warns you in red if you’re adding a paint with the same brand and code as one already in
your inventory.
Product tab
You pick from a manufacturer’s catalogue (the app filters out chemistry — only real paints show
up). Paints you already own are marked “ALREADY OWNED” and can’t be added again. Once you pick one,
the app fills the form from the catalogue and locks the identifying fields (name, brand, code,
series, type, finish) — after saving, the app won’t let you correct or rename them; the only way to
change identity is to add the paint again as new. What stays editable after saving is status,
dilution, price, and notes.
The app also shows the closest colour standards for the paint right there (FS/RAL/RLM
equivalents by colour distance from its hex value) and a suggested dilution — a slider with a few
preset Paint:Thinner ratios, which the app hides for paint types where dilution doesn’t apply.
Custom mix tab
A mix is built from ingredients you pick straight from your own stock — after the first ingredient,
the app narrows the picker to the same brand and type (sprays, thinners, and glues are always
excluded from mixes). The app always recalculates each ingredient’s share so the percentages add up
to exactly 100%.
The mix’s type and finish are guessed automatically from its ingredients (matte if all ingredients
are matte, metallic if all are metallic, satin otherwise), and a thinner is suggested based on the
first ingredient. The app also shows an estimated preview of the resulting colour — always labelled
as an estimate, not an exact calculation.
Browsing the catalogue by brand
A three-step browse — brand → series → item. Clicking an item opens a small
Add as: I have it / I want to buy window — nothing is saved until you choose; notes, price, and
other details are then edited in the paint’s detail. Chemistry is in this catalogue too: the Kind chips separate it from paints, and you add it through the same window (chemistry then appears in the Paints list under the Kind filter in the Filters panel). Search within a brand also finds a paint by its old number (AK renumbered Real Colors, e.g. RC094 → RC882).
Paint sets
A set is a manufacturer’s box (e.g. AK 4210, A.MIG-7100) with several bottles. The Paints switcher (next to Catalogue) has a Sets item: type the code from the box or the set name, the app shows the set with a strip of its colours and adds it with one tap — paints you don’t have yet are created as In stock, a paint from your shopping list is switched to In stock. If a set is not in the catalogue (typically discontinued), use Set not listed → add manually: pick the brand, type the code and name and add paints from that brand’s catalogue; a paint the catalogue lacks is only noted (not created). A manual set then behaves like a catalogue one. Sets don’t count toward any limit, the paints do; if the set would exceed a limit the app adds nothing (no half-added set). An owned paint shows a badge with the set code on its card and in a model (tap it to open the set). The Paints list can be switched to Group → By set (the switch appears only when you have a set): paints under set headers, the rest under “Loose paints”; a paint in several sets appears only under the first. The set detail shows which bottles from the box you still have, which are running low, which are empty and which you took out; deleting a set does not delete the paints. Delete set and its paints also deletes the paints, but only those that are in this set alone and not used on any model; the rest stay, and the app tells you beforehand how many will go and how many stay. Members that are not in the paint catalogue are only listed (“not in catalog”), not created. In the paint Catalogue, the item window shows a “This paint is in sets” row; tapping a set takes you to Sets with the search pre-filled.
Standards swatch chart and conversion
The app offers a grid of swatches across a wide range of colour standards (FS, RAL, RLM, and
several other military standards) with search by code or name. Clicking a swatch shows modelling
equivalents — but only for the FS, RAL, and RLM standards; for the others, clicking does
nothing. The app sorts equivalents into groups: In my stash, Manufacturer says (a direct
link from a conversion table — the one it trusts more), and Closest shade (a colour-distance
calculation; metallic and clear paints and markers are left out, since their look can’t be told
from a colour value). Chips at the top narrow the results by chemistry (Acrylic, Enamel, Lacquer).
For each equivalent, the app shows whether you already own it and offers a button to add it.
Preferred brands you set in Settings give a slight edge when the app looks for equivalents — but
they never override the confidence of a direct table match.
On a computer
The app keeps paints as a separate, shared inventory across your whole collection — a paint you add
once can be used on any kit, the app doesn’t create a fresh copy per kit. This tab has no AI feature
at all — everything here is either catalogue/curated data or a plain calculation.
Entry points
In the left-hand menu under Paints you’ll find four sub-items: My paints (your inventory as a
grid of swatches), Catalog (browse by brand), Sets (paint sets), and Standards (the swatch chart). Above the
grid are search, an Add paint button (straight into In Stock), and a status strip — All / In
Stock / Mixes / Want to Buy, plus Running low / Empty whenever there’s anything in them; the Brand
and Paint type filters are in the left-hand menu, and so is Model — a dropdown of every model that has
at least one paint assigned (in stock, wanted or running low; a custom mix assigned to a model counts too).
Pick a model and the grid shows only its paints. A swatch shows a badge with the number of kits
that use the paint — click it to switch to Kits filtered by that paint. Hovering over a swatch also
shows a trash can (the app asks before deleting).
Your inventory
The grid has three groups: In my stash (in stock, running low, and empty items), Custom
mixes (every mix you own, regardless of status), and Want to buy. A paint marked “Empty” stays
under “In my stash” until you switch it manually — the app never moves it for you. Within a group,
paints are ordered by brand; each group can be collapsed from its header.
The paint card shows a colour swatch (with a finish-appropriate sheen), code, name, and brand;
custom mixes additionally get a yellow “Mix” tag. A status pill only shows for exceptions — Running
low, Empty, and for a mix always (Mixed / Recipe only / Missing ingredients, based on whether you
have every ingredient in stock). The app also shows two separate counters on a paint — how many
times it’s used across your kits, and, separately, how many kits have it explicitly assigned to
their build.
Adding and editing a paint
A new paint has two tabs — Product (a real paint from a manufacturer’s catalogue) and Custom
mix (your own blend); the app offers both for a new entry, and jumps straight to the matching one
for an existing paint. Switching tabs is treated as a decision — any unsaved work in the other tab
is discarded.
The app warns you in red if you’re adding a paint with the same brand and code as one already in
your inventory.
Product tab
You pick from a manufacturer’s catalogue (the app filters out chemistry — only real paints show
up). Paints you already own are marked “ALREADY OWNED” and can’t be added again. Once you pick one,
the app fills the form from the catalogue and locks the identifying fields (name, brand, code,
series, type, finish) — after saving, the app won’t let you correct or rename them; the only way to
change identity is to add the paint again as new. What stays editable after saving is status,
dilution, price, and notes.
The app also shows the closest colour standards for the paint right there (FS/RAL/RLM
equivalents by colour distance from its hex value) and a suggested dilution — a slider with a few
preset Paint:Thinner ratios, which the app hides for paint types where dilution doesn’t apply.
Custom mix tab
A mix is built from ingredients you pick straight from your own stock — after the first ingredient,
the app narrows the picker to the same brand and type (sprays, thinners, and glues are always
excluded from mixes). The app always recalculates each ingredient’s share so the percentages add up
to exactly 100%.
The mix’s type and finish are guessed automatically from its ingredients (matte if all ingredients
are matte, metallic if all are metallic, satin otherwise), and a thinner is suggested based on the
first ingredient. The app also shows an estimated preview of the resulting colour — always labelled
as an estimate, not an exact calculation.
Browsing the catalogue by brand
A three-step browse — brand → series → item. Clicking an item opens a small
Add as: I have it / I want to buy window — nothing is saved until you choose; notes, price, and
other details are then edited in the paint’s detail. Chemistry is in this catalogue too: the Kind chips separate it from paints, and you add it through the same window (chemistry then appears in the Paints list under the Kind filter in the Filters panel). Search within a brand also finds a paint by its old number (AK renumbered Real Colors, e.g. RC094 → RC882).
Paint sets
A set is a manufacturer’s box (e.g. AK 4210, A.MIG-7100) with several bottles. The left Paints menu has a Sets sub-item: type the code from the box or the set name, the app shows the set with a strip of its colours and adds it with one tap — paints you don’t have yet are created as In stock, a paint from your shopping list is switched to In stock. If a set is not in the catalogue (typically discontinued), use Set not listed → add manually: pick the brand, type the code and name and add paints from that brand’s catalogue; a paint the catalogue lacks is only noted (not created). A manual set then behaves like a catalogue one. Sets don’t count toward any limit, the paints do; if the set would exceed a limit the app adds nothing (no half-added set). An owned paint shows a badge with the set code on its card and in a model (click it to open the set). The Paints overview can be switched to Group → By set (the switch appears only when you have a set): paints under set headers, the rest under “Loose paints”; a paint in several sets appears only under the first. The set detail shows which bottles from the box you still have, which are running low, which are empty and which you took out; deleting a set does not delete the paints. Delete set and its paints also deletes the paints, but only those that are in this set alone and not used on any model; the rest stay, and the app tells you beforehand how many will go and how many stay. Members that are not in the paint catalogue are only listed (“not in catalog”), not created. In the paint Catalogue, the item window shows a “This paint is in sets” row; clicking a set takes you to Sets with the search pre-filled.
Standards swatch chart and conversion
The app offers a grid of swatches across a wide range of colour standards (FS, RAL, RLM, and
several other military standards) with search by code or name. Clicking a swatch shows modelling
equivalents — but only for the FS, RAL, and RLM standards; for the others, clicking does
nothing. The app sorts equivalents into groups: In my stash, Manufacturer says (a direct
link from a conversion table — the one it trusts more), and Closest shade (a colour-distance
calculation; metallic and clear paints and markers are left out, since their look can’t be told
from a colour value). Chips at the top narrow the results by chemistry (Acrylic, Enamel, Lacquer).
For each equivalent, the app shows whether you already own it and offers a button to add it.
Preferred brands you set in Settings give a slight edge when the app looks for equivalents — but
they never override the confidence of a direct table match.