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I am looking to paint models and would like to mess around with different color choices. The paint thing on Dakka is ok, but I am not sure is giving me what I want. Are there other resources to use?

Yeah, an old model, some paints, and a paintbrush.

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Yeah, an old model, some paints, and a paintbrush.

Thanks for the most unhelpful response. Since I don't own the paints that is the reason I am looking for something to test stuff out with first on a program, or web page to get an idea of the look I want.

The very first Dawn of War video game had an army painter.

It lets you test colours on a small range of armies, more if you have the expansions.
It's very old so you can probly pick it up dead cheap.

With all expansions you can do SM, Orks, Chaos, Eldar, Dark Eldar, Tau, Imperial Guard, Sisters of Battle and necrons

Not sure if there are many options out there specific to minis...

You might try messing with colors in Photoshop or Gimp. Save an image of a model to your PC, set it to grayscale, then digitally paint the colors in areas to get a sense of what color schemes you like. Bonus that you could sample the colors of the paints right off images of the paint pots online. Downside is there's a learning curve to using the tools. On the plus side, this would only cost you time.

Maybe ask at your flgs or GW store if they have sample paints to test with? Or other gamers in the area to try painting a test mini?

If you use Gimp (or Photoshop) You can do it easy.



1º- Install GIMP. https://www.gimp.org/

2º- Find a image what you want with the background pure white or black (You can pick one from the Gallery of GW)

3º- New Document > Copy (Ctrl+C) Paste (Ctrl+V) the image. That create a "Floating Selection" in that point you need right click in "layer" and click in "To New Layer"


4º- Now you need create a New Layer. (CTRL+SHIFT+N) or click in the botton of Layer window.

5º- In the option of "Mode" from the Layer is important select HLS Color.


6º- Now you can paint the the Empty Layer with the Brush (P) and try your new scheme of colors. CONGRATULATIONS !!!


Note: If You want, try to search a nice combination of colours with Adobe Color Wheel CC (that is another History).
https://color.adobe.com/es/create/color-wheel/


*All the content are from https://segmentosolar.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/prueba-esquemas-de-color-con-gimp/ and translate from spanish to english*

There are online painters

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/smp.php