From the brushstroke at the forge to the first die roll.
The ultimate color companion app for tabletop gamers and hobby painters alike.
Explore a universe of color, forge and manage your painter's hoard.
Welcome, artisan, to the Miniature Painting Forge!
This digital armory was forged in the fires of a familiar quest: to gaze upon a hoard of paints from a dozen different clans, to behold an epic piece of art, and to find the arcane link to bind them. We have all faced the chasm of despair—the ancient tome (or a ten-year-old YouTube tutorial) calls for a color long vanished from production, and the path forward is shrouded in doubt.
This Forge is my answer to that silent challenge. It is a grimoire of color sorcery and a digital anvil, built by a painter, for painters. Whether you seek to transmute one paint into its twin from another realm, command the very essence of light and shadow, or simply catalog the glorious horde of pigments you have conquered, may these tools serve you well. Now pick up your brush—for the Emperor!
Search 1,000+ paints across Citadel, Vallejo, Army Painter, Scale75, Pro Acryl, and other brands. Find paint equivalents and conversions, match colours from photos, generate highlights and shadows, mix colours from your existing collection, and track your hoard — all free, no account needed.
What is Miniature Painting Forge?
Miniature Painting Forge is a free set of colour tools for tabletop and hobby miniature painters. Every brand — Citadel, Vallejo, Army Painter, Scale75, Pro Acryl, Reaper, AK Interactive and more — names its paints differently, so a recipe written for one range is hard to follow if you own another. Paint lines are also constantly discontinued and renamed, leaving tutorials pointing at colours you can no longer buy. These tools exist to close that gap.
Under the hood, every paint in the database is stored as a HEX colour value. When you search for a paint or paste a colour, the tools calculate the colour distance — the numerical difference in RGB space — between your colour and every other paint, then rank the closest real, buyable matches. The same engine powers cross-brand conversion (find the nearest Vallejo paint to a Citadel one), photo colour picking, highlight and shadow generation, and mixing recipes from paints you already own.
Because HEX values for hobby paints are derived from community data and digital references rather than an official standard, treat every match as an accurate starting point rather than a guaranteed identical colour — surface finish, opacity and lighting all shift how a paint reads on a model. Compare the hex swatches side by side before committing, and use the Image Colour Picker to sample a colour straight from a photo when you can see a colour but don't know its name.
Frequently asked questions
Is Miniature Painting Forge free to use?
Yes. Every tool — paint matching, cross-brand conversion, the image colour picker, highlight and shadow generation, the colour mixer, and collection tracking — is completely free. No account is required to use them.
Which paint brands are supported?
Many brands and 1,000+ paints, including Citadel Base and Layer, Vallejo Game Color and Model Color, Army Painter Warpaints and Fanatic, Scale75, Pro Acryl, AK Interactive, Reaper Master Series, Green Stuff World and AMMO by Mig.
How does paint matching work?
Every paint is stored as a HEX colour value. The tools calculate the colour distance — the difference between two colours in RGB space — and rank the closest real paints. A distance under about 10 is a very close match, 10–25 is moderate, and over 25 is a noticeable difference.
Can I convert a Citadel paint to Vallejo or another brand?
Yes. Use the Color Matcher to find the nearest equivalent in any brand, or open a dedicated converter page such as Citadel to Vallejo, Vallejo to Citadel, or Army Painter to Citadel for a focused side-by-side chart.
Do I need to create an account?
No. All tools work without signing in. Signing in with Google is optional and only adds cloud backup so your paint collection syncs across your devices.
