Any apps for color mixing?

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Well, the title says it all. If I need a specific color of paint, but I don’t have it at my house, then I would have to mix it. I am still new to paints, and I will need some help in mixing colors to the right color.

Are there any apps on the App store/Google Play that will be a good scale model tool to aid in color mixing? If so, what is it?

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There are a few…but they assume you have either:

Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, Black, and White (I’ve never seen magenta or cyan paint)

or

Red, Blue, Yellow, Black, and White.

Even then, they’re just a guide and you need a reference for the camera to sample from, or you need to approximate the color on the color wheel. It’ll also depend on what your brand of paint considers to be “blue” or whatever.

“Real Color Mixer” on Play Store (RBY-BW)

“Color Mixing Guide” on App Store (CYM-BW)

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Traditionally, a good place to start would be the IPMS Stockholm “Urban’s” color charts.

Those however were developed using paints such as Humbrol that are not as common as they once were. But there’s still value there.

Bill

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The IPMS Stockholm site charts have been updated to include many new paint lines.

5

Best tool for learning paint mixing is a simple color wheel. They are generally only a few of bucks. Then pick up a book on beginning painting (either oil or acrylics) at the library. Most of them tell how to use a color wheel. In fact, many of them include an image of the color wheel.

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Excellent advice.

As someone who’s mixed my own colors pretty much forever, it’s far more ‘simple science’ that the arcane and mysterious high art many hobbyists make it out to be. A color wheel and a basic grounding in color theory not only gives a lot more flexibility…it’s saved me a fortune (going by other forum members’ regular comments) in not having to bother to buy specialized ‘one shot’ colors for so many projects. [:D]

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I did find this,though it’s a website:https://combinecolors.com/

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Teenage Modeler

Check out the iModelKit app.

it has a section that will show you the target color and allow you to mix paint to match the target color.