Get Duncan in your POCKET!!!! The New Citadel Paint App Review

The benevolent souls at GW HQ decided to bless those of us with a painting problem with a great new tool for figuring out what color paints to slather out little plastic army men with.

Behold......The Citadel Paint App!

The app was to be released, both on iOS and Android on Saturday the 15th, but today, to all of our amazement, it dropped early.

I searched for it, and after some scrolling down......FOUND IT!

It installed and I popped it open to check out all the warhammery goodness. Upon opening it, we are greeted with a screen that takes us to the various parts of the app.  Unfortunately, there isn't a way to shut off the little tutorial that wants to tell you what to do (YOU AIN'T THE BOSS OF ME!).

Under Get Started, you will find a selection of different headers that talk about what all you can do with paint, various GW style written tutorials and (WAIT FOR IT..............) videos starring everyone's favorite Painting Overlord - Duncan Rhodes. 

ALL HAIL THE PAINTING OVERLORD!  

TWO THIN COATS FOR THE OVERLORD!!!!!!

Under Paint By Color, you can select a main color (in this example I picked grey), it gives you a choice of different shades of the colors.

The list will give base, shade, layers, and drybrush colors to get to that final color.

Under Paint by Miniature, you can select from a TON of models.  These are not broken out by range, so you just have to scroll through until you want to find the one you want.

Once selected, the image links back to the paint by color section to show you all you need to get the same effects.

Now for the part that we are all wanting to see - the paint matcher. 

Back on the Paint By Color screen, there is a little camera icon in the upper right corner.  Tap that (I did) and it takes you to the view through your camera.  

Line up the object that is subject of your color want.   Try to get it really close to where you are going to tap.  And then tap it a few times until the bar at the bottom closely matches your object.

I did test this out on smaller objects and really bright lights - it is not all that accurate.  It could be improved with a targeting reticle.  However, after a bit of trial and error, I got the below options for my soda bottle top.

No I can go out and paint a bunch of Coca Cola Marines!

The very last part that I want to talk about is the Inventory. In this, you can select the colors you have, and then update it as you run out, so when you hit your FLGS to do your random (or for me monthly) restock, you don't forget any!

All in all, it's a pretty fun app.  Great if you see a model on the GW website and what to know what colors to use, or have models painted in a different manufacturers paint and you want to match with GWs line.  For the new painter, it has a lot of great features - the tutorials are solid, and having the steps right there assists most new painters with not getting lost on a project.

For the old guys like me, it's great because we can see what the color is that we need to replace that old one not made any more.  The tutorials are good for retouching skills we may not have used, and has some advanced techniques we should all learn.