Mark your calendars and prepare yourself for a period of painting productivity the likes of which your paint-station has never seen, because from September 16th, you can download this new app to your device. That’s in just 10 days!
To celebrate the release of this revolutionary painting app, we’re running a competition to give 5 early downloaders a free set of every single base, shade and layer paint in the Citadel range!
What complex set of tasks must be completed in order to be found worthy of such bounty?
You just have to download it!
The earlier the better, as every day of the week after download, one lucky app-user will be informed that they have won. The first draw will be on Monday the 18th, continuing all week with the final draw on Friday the 22nd – so the earlier you download, the better your odds are of winning.
I was just wanting an app to keep track of which paints I need/have as I just blew $10 on paint I already had and didn't get the one I needed . Had to make a second run out for the right one.
would be cooler if it was also a community based image uploading thing to show off your stuff though that might cause issues with people that dont use GW stuff.
would be cooler if it was also a community based image uploading thing to show off your stuff though that might cause issues with people that dont use GW stuff.
So far I can't really see a point to the app. It's decent for tracking what paints a person owns but outside of that it doesn't seem very helpful. The 'paint by model' section is extremely limited.
It's neat but there's so much wasted potential with an app like this.
I'd have hoped they'd have broken down painting by miniature into factions; esp if they plan to add more. Heck considering its their go-to app now I'd have expected every them painting scheme that they'd done for each faction - instead they've cherry picked a random number.
They really should have thrown in a few effects as well - fire, water, metals etc...
Also since they've already got digital version of each colour a "painting" feature would have been neat - a simple photo of a handful of core miniatures (one from each faction at least) in grey overwhich you could then do a rough "colour selection" to try out different schemes.
It's interesting to say the least, but I can't say I see myself using it much expect to catalogue my paints, which I could do without the app.
A few of the base textures caught my eye, but that's really it. Also I don't know about anyone else, but the fact that some the colour guides obviously aren't close to what was done on the model is downright annoying sometimes - looking at you Daemonette tutorial.
Yeah it's a great foundation. Truth be told I think the real value to GW is the data they get on what paints we own and the most purchased ect. Also the ones that are not selling well.
If I win the draw how will I be contacted? I've got the app on my ipad.
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Wait wouldn't they already know that though? Hmm... okay new hypothesis needed then.
Gamgee wrote: Yeah it's a great foundation. Truth be told I think the real value to GW is the data they get on what paints we own and the most purchased ect. Also the ones that are not selling well.
If I win the draw how will I be contacted? I've got the app on my ipad.
probably gathers that info from push notifications, and GPS info
Gamgee wrote: I turned off notification -_- Doh. Will turning them on reenter me?
You'll probably be good. It looks like they'll send the winners a code via push notification and then you will email the code to the Community team to claim your prize.
Hollow wrote: People sure are entitled these days. Already complaints about what isn't there rather than comments on what is. Great little app. I like it.
Yeah, we should be happy with an incomplete range of paint colors, shut up and take our medicine!
We shouldn't offer any feedback where we can see scope for improvement or where errors have been made either, amiright?
I'd like it to be able to access my iPad's photo reel as well as take photos from the camera so I can save pics I see online and use the colour matcher on them, how entitled am I?
It's the fact that it's been available for a matter of moments and people are moaning about it. Feedback is good. I didn't say you shouldn't make any. I just think it's a shame that a free app is being jumped on by professional neck-bearded internet complainers, like so much is these days.
But then, you could have just said "I like it" and moved on, but attacking the other users of this board isn't kinda your thing isn't it? So I'll stop feeding you now.
"Attacking other users of this board is my thing"? You're just trying to paint me as some kind of outside troll. Which I'm not.
I'm a user of this board, as you are, I made a comment about the fact I find it disappointing that so many things are jumped upon and torn to shreds.
You are the one that tears across the board like a bull in a china shop, to take a look at your posting history is to see a bullying, combative and aggressive individual who takes it upon himself to speak for the board and 'self-moderate'..... oh please.
Speaking of self-moderation. Best if you put me on ignore, as I will you.
A great app but the prize draw has made me a little angry. It says in the fine print at the very bottom that winners will be excluded if they come from NSW or the ACT in Australia, two of our biggest populated states.
They'll even give the prize out to Tasmania or Western Australia, two incredibly isolated/lowly populated areas of the country but exclude out two of the states? Anyone know the reasoning for this?
Marine_With_Heart wrote: A great app but the prize draw has made me a little angry. It says in the fine print at the very bottom that winners will be excluded if they come from NSW or the ACT in Australia, two of our biggest populated states.
They'll even give the prize out to Tasmania or Western Australia, two incredibly isolated/lowly populated areas of the country but exclude out two of the states? Anyone know the reasoning for this?
I'd say state laws, but then NT should be barred along with ACT, so I dunno.
As someone who has problems with colour, and trouble keeping track of which paints I've bought, I find this new app to be awesome. I'm super glad they released it.
Marine_With_Heart wrote: A great app but the prize draw has made me a little angry. It says in the fine print at the very bottom that winners will be excluded if they come from NSW or the ACT in Australia, two of our biggest populated states.
They'll even give the prize out to Tasmania or Western Australia, two incredibly isolated/lowly populated areas of the country but exclude out two of the states? Anyone know the reasoning for this?
As I recall from hearing companies offering some sort of world wide sweepstakes before, those areas of Australia have some sort of law that makes sweepstakes or something like that either really complicated or illegal.
It's a tiny toe in the water, as GW is often wont to do with new forays into the terrifying world of technology. I'm sure they'll expand on it later.
I'm sure GW wants all the constructive criticism and ideas its users can offer in the correct channels, but don't complain in a forum about your free stuff, ya goobers.
Its a nice app, hopefully they keep adding content of one sort or another.
As others have pointed out, at least 2 paints missing.
Given that Ahriman and Thousand Sons Blues have been around for 9 months, that's an inexcusable oversight especially since the much newer Death Guard Green is there.
Its nothing to get stroppy about, unless its still missing in the first update.
Tannhauser42 wrote: Honestly, I'm mildly shocked the app isn't an iOS exclusive and is actually available for Android, too.
You're quite right, so I suppose that's something. Not that it does anything for me
I've often wondered why so many apps are iOS exclusive, aren't android phones and the like more common? I always felt it was a con to get people to buy iPads and such!!!
Hollow wrote: People sure are entitled these days. Already complaints about what isn't there rather than comments on what is. Great little app. I like it.
I completely agree. It's one thing to point out an issue or make a suggestion 'hey, I bet this could be better if...' but so many people just skip straight to whining. Seriously, it's free... I don't understand why people like that put so much effort into making themselves unhappy.
Tannhauser42 wrote: Honestly, I'm mildly shocked the app isn't an iOS exclusive and is actually available for Android, too.
You're quite right, so I suppose that's something. Not that it does anything for me
I've often wondered why so many apps are iOS exclusive, aren't android phones and the like more common? I always felt it was a con to get people to buy iPads and such!!!
Many apps are iOS exclusive because the platform is easier to develop for, and the revenue stream is more reliable. Plus while iOS is not the majority platform any more, is still the largest homogeneous segment by a wide margin, due to android's fragmentation problem.
Honestly, I actually really like the app. It puts the pointers into one place and the hints at how to paint the different colors are pretty useful. Sure, an experienced painter won't get a lot out of it, but people just getting into the hobby will.
It's okay for free, but I don't see experienced painters getting much out of it. But they probably weren't the target demographic anyway. Some of the features could be more robust, like the inventory tracker, and there are missing paints and mistakes in labeling things. We'll see if they put any more effort into expanding and fixing this. But I don't see any personal need for this app.
Ghaz wrote: Already found a problem with the paint inventory, with Ahriman Blue and Thousand Sons Blue missing.
And Relictor Gold (I think that's the gold that was missing when I was playing with it this morning). And no separate entries for the Air series of paints.
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Hollow wrote: It's the fact that it's been available for a matter of moments and people are moaning about it. Feedback is good. I didn't say you shouldn't make any. I just think it's a shame that a free app is being jumped on by professional neck-bearded internet complainers, like so much is these days.
And the missing paints have been released for ...how long? I love the fact that these days there's always someone willing to bitch about people making relevant criticisms about a product that's been released incomplete. God forbid that a company release something that's up to date on Day 1!
Ahriman and TS blues were released in November 2016, which was 10 months ago now. If you think pointing this out is "moaning" then I don't know what to tell you. I'm sure it'll be patched in, but giving the app devs a complete list of paints and/or expecting it to be up to date with last year's releases is a fairly reasonable expectation. People pointing it out is also the only way that it's going to be fixed, since their QA clearly missed it...
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Badablack wrote: It's a tiny toe in the water, as GW is often wont to do with new forays into the terrifying world of technology. I'm sure they'll expand on it later.
I'm sure GW wants all the constructive criticism and ideas its users can offer in the correct channels, but don't complain in a forum about your free stuff, ya goobers.
I did email them this morning, to politely point out the missing colours and offer the suggestion of adding the Air range.
I don't think you can say jack gak about what we can discuss in the forum, however. This isn't an an enforced-sunshine and rainbows forum, and the things being pointed out are fair points. The mild insult, though, is uncalled for.
As it stands right now, it's not really much of a hobby tool outside of the color matching. What it is, though, is a very impressive, highly interactive catalog.
Mymearan wrote: Why aren't all of Duncan's tutorials in here? Seems like a no-brainer...
As much as I love Duncan's tutorials, I would not want them cached to my phone through the app. I am quite content to access them via YouTube. That said, I agree that a link to a Duncan video that covers a paticular minature or painting subject listed in the app would be great, especially sense they had fun with Duncan seemingly having nothing to do because of the paint app. (Another great tongue and cheek video).
A feature I am really intrigued about is the colour matching function, though in my testing to date, it really hasn't provided good results. I know I will get a use out of the inventory function as I have been known on occasion to end up buying pots that I already had.
I think colour matching would work better if it was done off a photo rather than the camera; I also think its looking at a very tiny area for colour matching so as a result might not always pick out hte colour you think you're clicking on unless you're pointing it at a very large mono-colour area
Overread wrote: I think colour matching would work better if it was done off a photo rather than the camera; I also think its looking at a very tiny area for colour matching so as a result might not always pick out hte colour you think you're clicking on unless you're pointing it at a very large mono-colour area
I've done some testing with it and it's also, unsurprisingly, very dependent on lighting and distance. You can get a multitude of results for the same object depending on how you position your camera. Still, if you can control for those things, it's a pretty cool idea and it does work mostly as intended.
I have trouble with the camera to select colors. Might be my camera on the tablet is bad, or I just need more time to play around with it. I did like that they show what color the app think we picked before I have to hit the find paint button.
Bookwrack wrote: As I recall from hearing companies offering some sort of world wide sweepstakes before, those areas of Australia have some sort of law that makes sweepstakes or something like that either really complicated or illegal.
The legal problem generally only arises if entering the contest requires a purchase, because there's no hard line between buying a pot of paint and getting a free entry into a lottery, and buying a lottery ticket and getting a free pot of paint.
akai wrote: I have trouble with the camera to select colors. Might be my camera on the tablet is bad, or I just need more time to play around with it. I did like that they show what color the app think we picked before I have to hit the find paint button.
Tablet cameras seem to be notoriously bad. I have a Galaxy 4 Tablet that has a camera of a flip phone. Works fine for Warmachine stat keeping - but can't take a solid photo. I've either taken pictures with my i7 or just uploaded photos to test it out
Man GW screwed themselves with this app!! I was going through my paint to put it in the app, and jesus did I buy alot of duplicate pots because I'm an idiot... NEVER AGAIN GW hahahahaa! Now I can go to the store and not sit there for 20min trying to visualize if I had that one off shade of purple, well better buy it just in case. NOPE!
But seriously I had no idea how bad I needed this app in my life. Very happy for it.
Chopxsticks wrote: Man GW screwed themselves with this app!! I was going through my paint to put it in the app, and jesus did I buy alot of duplicate pots because I'm an idiot... NEVER AGAIN GW hahahahaa! Now I can go to the store and not sit there for 20min trying to visualize if I had that one off shade of purple, well better buy it just in case. NOPE!
But seriously I had no idea how bad I needed this app in my life. Very happy for it.
The inventory is just yay or nay, have or don't? there's no way to add quantities is there? as I have multiple pots of some paints for exactly the reason above
Chopxsticks wrote: Man GW screwed themselves with this app!! I was going through my paint to put it in the app, and jesus did I buy alot of duplicate pots because I'm an idiot... NEVER AGAIN GW hahahahaa! Now I can go to the store and not sit there for 20min trying to visualize if I had that one off shade of purple, well better buy it just in case. NOPE!
But seriously I had no idea how bad I needed this app in my life. Very happy for it.
The inventory is just yay or nay, have or don't? there's no way to add quantities is there? as I have multiple pots of some paints for exactly the reason above
Yes, but adding quantities has been suggested a couple of times on Facebook and they say that they're looking into it.
quantities would be an added bonus! I use such little paint that one pot usually lasts me a long time. but man it erks me when I find I have 2 or 3 of the same highlight paint...
Chopxsticks wrote: quantities would be an added bonus! I use such little paint that one pot usually lasts me a long time. but man it erks me when I find I have 2 or 3 of the same highlight paint...
So you want it to irk you every time you open it and see that you have five pots of Fulgrim Pink
I seem to suffer from a very specific visual impairment that prevents me from seeing a Ushabti Bone pot when doing inventory. Recently discovered I have 3 unopened pots of the stuff. I noticed this while preparing to go out and buy a new pot of Ushabti Bone as I noticed I was completely out.
I don't understand why anyone would need a feature to specify multiple pots in the inventory. What's the point of that? When you empty the last one, take it out of the inventory. Until then, you have some. If you are getting low, add to wish list. What possible value could you get out of specifying that you have more than one pot?
I think for certain high usage paints, like the washes, textures, and core army colors, people like to have a backup, so seeing that you have one might mean a fresh pot, or a nearly tapped one.
I agree, that for most people, most of the time, it's not a critical feature, but it does have some uses.
If only it told you the matching color of their old line too. I know they won't say what the match is in army painter, but which one was khirne red? And which was scab red? I have the print out for cross compatibility between ranges at my desk, but there are old videos out there and paint guides that refer to the old colors and it's a pain to go back and double check.
Theophony wrote: If only it told you the matching color of their old line too. I know they won't say what the match is in army painter, but which one was khirne red? And which was scab red? I have the print out for cross compatibility between ranges at my desk, but there are old videos out there and paint guides that refer to the old colors and it's a pain to go back and double check.
I order paints online from UK discounters it's just much cheaper that way so running out could mean a week or more waiting for a replacement so I would nearly always have at least one back up pot of paints I use regularly. I often do custom colour mixes, often spur of the moment as an idea for a colour comes to me so I would have several pots of the same colour hanging around for this purpose (paint is transferred from the GW pot into an eye dropper bottle). I also have multiple pots of direct only paints as I'd very rarely order direct from GW so I order 2 or 3 at a time. I really have far to much paint!
It's not essential it would just be a nice feature to have.
Theophony wrote: If only it told you the matching color of their old line too. I know they won't say what the match is in army painter, but which one was khirne red? And which was scab red? I have the print out for cross compatibility between ranges at my desk, but there are old videos out there and paint guides that refer to the old colors and it's a pain to go back and double check.
I have the DakkaDakka one bookmarked (which has multiple lineshttps://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Paint_Range_Compatibility_Chart).
My point was it would be great if the app had the old names listed too, then it would make inventorying easier and i wouldn't have to jump to a whole other app to cross reference.
You're missing the point. I understand that people might have more than one pot of a certain color of paint. The desire to indicate this in the app makes no sense to me.
Polonius wrote: I think for certain high usage paints, like the washes, textures, and core army colors, people like to have a backup, so seeing that you have one might mean a fresh pot, or a nearly tapped one.
I agree, that for most people, most of the time, it's not a critical feature, but it does have some uses.
I'll often buy a backup of a paint when I get low. I've been using Agrellan Ironarth a fair bit, and my pot is almost out. When picking up some new paints the other day (including Ahriman and TS blue - true story) I couldn't recall if I'd already bought an Agrellan Ironearth backup so I bought another (I don't get down to a GW store that often - and I thought of it while I was there). I also like to have (at least) one backup of specific high-use colours - Khorne Red, Mephiston Red, XV-88 and a couple of others (more than a couple when we get to the Vallejo and other ranges). I may not need 5 of each, though...
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Albino Squirrel wrote: You're missing the point. I understand that people might have more than one pot of a certain color of paint. The desire to indicate this in the app makes no sense to me.
Actually, you're the one missing the point.
The point is that some people would find it really useful, even if you personally would not. The fact that a half-dozen people in this thread have brought it up easily indicates that. The world doesn't revolve around you and what you understand.
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DaveC wrote: I order paints online from UK discounters it's just much cheaper that way so running out could mean a week or more waiting for a replacement so I would nearly always have at least one back up pot of paints I use regularly. I often do custom colour mixes, often spur of the moment as an idea for a colour comes to me so I would have several pots of the same colour hanging around for this purpose (paint is transferred from the GW pot into an eye dropper bottle). I also have multiple pots of direct only paints as I'd very rarely order direct from GW so I order 2 or 3 at a time. I really have far to much paint!
All of this applies to myself as well.
It's not essential it would just be a nice feature to have.
Especially if they want the app to really be useful and used by people like ourselves.
Albino Squirrel wrote: You're missing the point. I understand that people might have more than one pot of a certain color of paint. The desire to indicate this in the app makes no sense to me.
Well, like I said, it would be a way to indicate that they need to buy the paint, even if they have the pot. Having one pot of, say, Imrik Blue, is almost certainly enough.
Having one pot of Agrax Earthshade might not really answer the question "do I need to buy more?"
I mean, I'm not sure how useful a pseudo live inventory really will be, but maybe instead of just creating a list, the app allowed you to create a wishlist to buy?
The app DOES have a wishlist. So if you are down to only 1 or 2 pots of Agrax Earthshade, you can add it to the wishlist, even though you already have some.
I still have not seen a single explanation as to why it would be helpful to indicate number of pots in the app. I've only seen explanations of why people own more than one pot. I'm still curious if anyone has a reason. I can't think of one.
Unless maybe you want to always have around 5 pots of something. You're at the store and see it on your wishlist, but you're not sure if you only need to buy one pot to get you up to five, or four pots. Is that the issue?
Albino Squirrel wrote: The app DOES have a wishlist. So if you are down to only 1 or 2 pots of Agrax Earthshade, you can add it to the wishlist, even though you already have some.
I still have not seen a single explanation as to why it would be helpful to indicate number of pots in the app. I've only seen explanations of why people own more than one pot. I'm still curious if anyone has a reason. I can't think of one.
Unless maybe you want to always have around 5 pots of something. You're at the store and see it on your wishlist, but you're not sure if you only need to buy one pot to get you up to five, or four pots. Is that the issue?
What's the purpose of an inventory if you don't know how many you have of the item?
Albino Squirrel wrote: The app DOES have a wishlist. So if you are down to only 1 or 2 pots of Agrax Earthshade, you can add it to the wishlist, even though you already have some.
I still have not seen a single explanation as to why it would be helpful to indicate number of pots in the app. I've only seen explanations of why people own more than one pot. I'm still curious if anyone has a reason. I can't think of one.
Unless maybe you want to always have around 5 pots of something. You're at the store and see it on your wishlist, but you're not sure if you only need to buy one pot to get you up to five, or four pots. Is that the issue?
Clearly, you don't want to "understand" and we simply have a case where you're digging in and doubling down on your opinion.
Or to put it another way, you're either unable to understand that others have different opinions/wants/etc to yourself so there's no point talking to you or you're arguing for the sake of arguing rather than going "Huh, okay. I'd be indifferent to that but I guess if other people might find it useful then fair play to them, whatever." and so with that in mind, I'm done talking to you or wasting my time trying to explain.
The main thing to take away here I guess is that no-one needs to explain anything to someone who is choosing to be obstinate. We owe you nothing.
I'm glad you're done trying to explain, since you never started trying to explain.
I don't know why your lack of desire to answer my question makes you so angry. Someone asking a question on a forum does not obligate everyone to answer it.
Albino Squirrel wrote: The app DOES have a wishlist. So if you are down to only 1 or 2 pots of Agrax Earthshade, you can add it to the wishlist, even though you already have some.
I still have not seen a single explanation as to why it would be helpful to indicate number of pots in the app. I've only seen explanations of why people own more than one pot. I'm still curious if anyone has a reason. I can't think of one.
Unless maybe you want to always have around 5 pots of something. You're at the store and see it on your wishlist, but you're not sure if you only need to buy one pot to get you up to five, or four pots. Is that the issue?
What's the purpose of an inventory if you don't know how many you have of the item?
Obviously a lot of people are finding a use for an inventory, even without the ability to add multiples. The usefulness is that you know whether you have a color or not. That's pretty useful. If I'm looking at one of the paint "recipes" in the app, I can see if I'm missing any of the colors I need to implement it. That's useful, because I can easily see which paints I still need to get to paint that recipe, and add them to my wish list so I remember to buy them.
So if you were the type of person who liked to keep backups of your most commonly-used paints, say Agrax Earthshade, wouldn't it be a big help to know that you not only have a pot of Agrax Earthshade, but you have a backup pot as well just in case you run out before your next trip to the FLGS or GW store? That's the explanation we've been trying to give you. The lack of this feature is by no means a deal breaker, but it would certainly be a welcome addition for many of us.
Albino Squirrel wrote: I'm glad you're done trying to explain, since you never started trying to explain.
I don't know why your lack of desire to answer my question makes you so angry. Someone asking a question on a forum does not obligate everyone to answer it.
This is interesting, because while you cannot scrape together the insight to even pretend to understand why somebody would want a feature for the app, you do have the insight to analyze the intent of another posters actions.
Is this what happens when a person with autism is a mind reader?
It's the only possible explanation I can think of.
# of pots and also an option to mark at least one pot as full/half/ less than 1/4 would be really useful just for tracking how much you have left would be awesome.
Sure if you know you have one pot that is low adding it to a wish list is a nice idea. But you may not need too much of that paint unless you need to create a new color scheme down the line so having the option is useful.
A section for saved/ custom color schemes would also be super useful to keep track of how you have your existing minis painted incase you want to paint more in the future.
I would also like to see links to Duncan's painting videos for existing models with paint lists.
A screen where you can list each item/ area on a model where you can customize the paint scheme would be absolutely awesome
It's the only possible explanation I can think of.
That or Penny Arcade's green blackboards. There's a lot of that about. Every time I spend some time in the N&R or Discussions forum find that I end up adding a few more green blackboardiers to my ignore list.
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Gibbsey wrote: # of pots and also an option to mark at least one pot as full/half/ less than 1/4 would be really useful just for tracking how much you have left would be awesome.
See. I personally would probably never use that function if it were offered, but I don't think it's stupid to think it could not be useful for or appreciated by other people.
For me all I need to know is whether I need to replace or purchase any given paint. The app does that fine for me - I am halfway through my inventory. I particularly like the way you can mark them from the Miniature painting section.
Still wish you could record your own colour schemes per figure though - that would complete the app for me.
It would be great if you could take a photo of your finished miniatur, and then select the paints you used on each part of it - to create your own record of how you did it.
I find I often forget how I painted something, and even if I write it down on a piece of paper, that piece of paper tend to get lost after a while...
Albino Squirrel wrote: I'm glad you're done trying to explain, since you never started trying to explain.
I don't know why your lack of desire to answer my question makes you so angry. Someone asking a question on a forum does not obligate everyone to answer it.
Albino Squirrel wrote: The app DOES have a wishlist. So if you are down to only 1 or 2 pots of Agrax Earthshade, you can add it to the wishlist, even though you already have some.
I still have not seen a single explanation as to why it would be helpful to indicate number of pots in the app. I've only seen explanations of why people own more than one pot. I'm still curious if anyone has a reason. I can't think of one.
Unless maybe you want to always have around 5 pots of something. You're at the store and see it on your wishlist, but you're not sure if you only need to buy one pot to get you up to five, or four pots. Is that the issue?
What's the purpose of an inventory if you don't know how many you have of the item?
Obviously a lot of people are finding a use for an inventory, even without the ability to add multiples. The usefulness is that you know whether you have a color or not. That's pretty useful. If I'm looking at one of the paint "recipes" in the app, I can see if I'm missing any of the colors I need to implement it. That's useful, because I can easily see which paints I still need to get to paint that recipe, and add them to my wish list so I remember to buy them.
I think people have answered your question pretty well. Some need to have more than one pot on hand because they order things online and it takes time to arrive. Having a quantity also helps with planning terrain or large projects. If I'm building a commission army for someone then I might need 3 pots of one color. Or if I'm juggling two or three commissions it could be something I need across more than one and having the quantity listed is a good thing.
It's not going to hurt you if it's there, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be there. If it's helpful to others but not yourself don't derail the attempt to get it added or at least talked about. It's by we can't have nice things .
Oguhmek wrote: It would be great if you could take a photo of your finished miniatur, and then select the paints you used on each part of it - to create your own record of how you did it.
I find I often forget how I painted something, and even if I write it down on a piece of paper, that piece of paper tend to get lost after a while...
I send myself emails with the paint schemes (and lots of other things I want myself to remember). As long as I know how to search for it in my email archive, I can find it again.
Oguhmek wrote: It would be great if you could take a photo of your finished miniatur, and then select the paints you used on each part of it - to create your own record of how you did it.
I find I often forget how I painted something, and even if I write it down on a piece of paper, that piece of paper tend to get lost after a while...
I send myself emails with the paint schemes (and lots of other things I want myself to remember). As long as I know how to search for it in my email archive, I can find it again.
Consider using Trello as a neat way of making lists. I use a list for each colour and then an item for each step.
EnTyme wrote: So if you were the type of person who liked to keep backups of your most commonly-used paints, say Agrax Earthshade, wouldn't it be a big help to know that you not only have a pot of Agrax Earthshade, but you have a backup pot as well just in case you run out before your next trip to the FLGS or GW store? That's the explanation we've been trying to give you. The lack of this feature is by no means a deal breaker, but it would certainly be a welcome addition for many of us.
I am that type of person. I would just add Agrax Earthshade to the wishlist once I was down to one pot, instead of waiting to add it until the last pot was almost empty.
I think people have answered your question pretty well. Some need to have more than one pot on hand because they order things online and it takes time to arrive. Having a quantity also helps with planning terrain or large projects. If I'm building a commission army for someone then I might need 3 pots of one color. Or if I'm juggling two or three commissions it could be something I need across more than one and having the quantity listed is a good thing.
It's not going to hurt you if it's there, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be there. If it's helpful to others but not yourself don't derail the attempt to get it added or at least talked about. It's by we can't have nice things .
"Some need to have more than one pot on hand because they order things online and it takes time to arrive" is an example of why someone would want to own more than one pot of paint, and isn't what I was asking about.
It does make sense that if you do a lot of different large terrain projects and commission jobs, you may end up with various numbers of pots of different paints, and if you're about to start a new one it might be handy to check the app to see if you have enough of the colors you need to start it, and if not just how many you need to have enough to get the new project done. That's probably kind of an unusual case, so I can see that not being a high priority for the app.
Also, I've done absolutely nothing to "derail the attempt to get it added or at least talked about". I'm not sure what influence you think I have with the app developers to prevent the feature from being added, but it seems like I've managed to get the idea talked about quite a lot.
. Had to make a second run out for the right one.
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