The Foundry Society Paint
Colour tools for people who paint miniatures. Nothing here guesses. Every colour comes from a paint you can buy.
An example, start to finish
Three colours picked off the wheel, plus the wood and leather most models need. These are the pots it came back with.
What went in
A triadic harmony, straight off the wheel.
- Colour 1
- Colour 2
- Colour 3
- Wood
- Brown
- Brand
- Citadel
- Wash brand
- Same as paints
- Paints
- 15
What came back
- Colour 1BaseRatskin FleshShadeAgrax EarthshadeHighlightFire Dragon Bright
- Colour 2BaseHobgrot HideShadeCassandora YellowHighlightKarak Stone
- Colour 3BaseCaledor SkyShadeDrakenhof NightshadeHighlightTeclis Blue
- WoodmaterialBaseSteel Legion DrabShadeAgrax EarthshadeHighlightmix Steel Legion Drab with Wraithbone
- BrownmaterialBaseThondia BrownShadeAgrax EarthshadeHighlightSkrag Brown
13 pots to buy
- Ratskin Flesh
- Hobgrot Hide
- Caledor Sky
- Thondia Brown
- Steel Legion Drab
- Wraithbone
- Agrax Earthshade
- Fire Dragon Bright
- Cassandora Yellow
- Karak Stone
- Drakenhof Nightshade
- Teclis Blue
- Skrag Brown
Undercoat: Corax White
- Colour wheelPick a harmony scheme on the artists' wheel (red opposite green, the way you were taught) and read off the colours.
- Brand equivalentsVallejo and AK publish charts saying which of their paints matches which Citadel colour. Search them.
- From a photoPhotograph a painted miniature and get a list of paints that match it.
- Shopsnot yetWhich shops stock the paints, and what they carry.
- My paintsKeep the paints you already own, so a list only tells you what you still need.