The Mini Mainframe — paint & project manager for miniatures

The Mini Mainframe

Plan your projects.
Track your paints.
Manage your minis.

Manage your pile of shame and slay the grey with a whole range of awesome tools. Share your progress pics, finished minis, recipes, and techniques with the community. Everything a miniature painter needs, all in one place.

Miniature painters, meet your new best painting pal.

Plan, track and manage your entire collection. No card needed.

PROJECTSThe Mini Mainframe projects roster — armies, units and models with status, priority and completion
Every army, unit and model in one roster. Set deadlines, track status, and shrink your pile of shame one unit at a time.
PAINT LIBRARYThe Mini Mainframe paint library — a grid of thousands of paint swatches mapped by colour
Every paint on the market — 7,000+ across every major brand — mapped by colour. Flag what you own, wishlist the rest.
COLOUR TOOLSThe Mini Mainframe colour tools hub listing the wheel, match, dropper, layering and paint scanner tools
The full toolkit: harmony wheel, colour match, photo dropper, glaze layering, and a scanner that reads your paint rack from a photo.
COLLECTIONThe Mini Mainframe collection tracker listing owned and wishlisted paints and models with prices
Paste a store link and the row fills itself in — name, brand, price. Know exactly what you own, what you want, and what you've spent.
RECIPE CREATORThe Mini Mainframe recipe editor building a paint scheme layer by layer
Build a scheme layer by layer, tag the technique on every step, then attach it to a project or share it with a link.
FOCUS BENCHThe Focus screen showing a recipe, notes, session timer and progress for one model
Your painting bench: the recipe, notes, a session timer, and inspiration for one model on a single screen. Sit down and paint.

The Mainframe demands tribute.

Everything you need to run your hobby comes as standard — no strings, no card. But the good stuff? The colour toolkit, the AI, the paint scanner? The Mainframe keeps those behind the glass until you sponsor it.

AS STANDARD
  • Unlimited projects — armies, units, models, terrain
  • Your full collection — log every paint & model, add by pasting a store link
  • A recipe for every model — add paints, tag techniques, share any scheme with a link
  • The focus bench — recipe, notes, inspiration & a session timer
  • The entire 7,000+ paint library, browsable and searchable
SPONSOR THE MAINFRAME · $3.99/MO
  • The full colour toolkit — Colour Wheel, Match, Dropper, Stacking, and the Paint Scanner
  • One-click adds while you browse — drop any paint or model into your collection or wishlist straight from the store page, no copy-paste
  • Army-list auto-build — paste an army list and it fills your whole project tree in seconds
  • AI recipe generation — describe a scheme, get a catalog-grounded recipe back
  • Unlimited recipes — a recipe for every scheme, variant, and sub-unit

Questions painters ask

What is The Mini Mainframe?
A miniature painting tracker and paint collection manager for wargamers. Track every model from wishlist to finished, save cross-brand paint recipes, and manage your Warhammer, Citadel, Vallejo and Army Painter paints in one place.
Does The Mini Mainframe cost anything?
You can sign up and start tracking projects, browsing the paint library, and building recipes at no cost. Sponsoring the Mainframe for $3.99/mo unlocks the full colour toolkit, the Paint Scanner, and AI recipe generation.
Which paint brands does it support?
The paint library covers 7,000+ paints across brands including Citadel, Vallejo, Army Painter and Scale75, so you can build a recipe from what you own and match a colour to the nearest paint in another range.
Can it help me clear my pile of shame?
Yes — the wargame project tracker and hobby backlog view surface every unpainted model and its stage, so you can chip away at the pile of shame one unit at a time.
What can I do with paint recipes?
Save a colour scheme once, then reuse or share it. Browse community recipes in the gallery and clone any scheme to your own library in one click.

Ready to take your hobby to the next level?

Your whole painting setup, organized in one terminal. No card needed to get started.