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I'm sure many of you have done this(or possibly thought about it), but the thought just occurred to me. Everyone who uses GW paints know's how misleading the colours on the rack/ paint section of the website can be. We also know how a paint will look differnt once dry as opposed to still in the pot. So what I've decided to do type out a list of all the paints that GW makes, and then print it out. Beside the name for each paint(and wash), I'm going to paint a line in the respective colours. I hope this will be a useful tool in helping me decide what shade of (insert colour here) I want to use, by having a reference point to all the others. Of course since the paper is white it will look slightly different for models primed black. I'll also have to go out to an office supply store to get a plastic protective sleeve so that I don't get the paper wet(would would be a major annoyance to have to make an other one).

WD have occasionally printed reference pages of their colour range - far from perfect due to the limitations of printed colour matching, but a good general guide. What I do is then carefully overpaint the wee colour sample squares with the real paint if i have that colour. So i'm slowly building up a complete colour chart.

Ya I have a couple of the colour charts from them, some that have come in paint set's, and the one in the back of "How to Paint Citadel Miniatures", but as you said, far from perfect.

I prime black, so I paint the inset section of the paint pot's lid with the relevant colour. Once dry, it gives me a very good idea of what it's going to look like. Ta-da.

I do that too, Lady, even though I usually prime white - a good thick blob of paint will dry to a perfect reference sample, and is also useful if you store your paints in a drawer and need to identify them from above