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Miniature Painting Tracker
Miniature painting tracker for armies, paint recipes, and backlog
A miniature painting tracker organizes your hobby across projects, paint inventory, and the ever-growing pile of unbuilt kits. Costumary tracks each painting project with materials (paints, brushes, basing supplies), milestones (assembled, primed, basecoated, detailed, based, varnished), cost tracking, and reference photos for color schemes.
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Costumary workspace demo showing four core features:
- Reference board: drag and drop character images, group by costume piece, add color swatches, notes, and checklists
- Materials tracker: list supplies with costs, stores, quantities, and order status. Live budget totals update as you add items
- Project timeline: plan milestones for patterning, construction, painting, fitting, and packing with convention deadline tracking
- Build diary: log progress with photos, notes, and technique records. Track what worked, what failed, and what to try next time
Overwhelmed? Start with a template.
Each template comes with milestones, starter materials, and a timeline. Skip the blank page and start building today.
Yuji Itadori
~3wJujutsu High's unassuming sorcerer-in-training: the pink-and-black undercut wig, white school uniform, and subtle Sukuna curse marks. The wig styling is the make-or-break challenge—it needs proper teasing, gel, and heat-setting to hold spikes through a con day. 4 components, 10 materials, 3-4 weeks, $75-150.
10 milestones·10 materials·$75-150·
Use templateAnya Forger
~3wSpy x Family's telepathic kid in the Eden Academy uniform. The build is a black A-line dress with gold scalloped trim, a white Peter Pan collar, a red bow, and a pink wig with horn clips. It looks simple, but the wig quality, horn stability, and trim finish are where beginners hit walls. This template covers 6 components, 10 materials, a 10-step build plan, and a $40 to $120 budget across 3 weeks.
11 milestones·13 materials·$40-120·
Use templateMomo Ayase
~3wMomo Ayase from Dandadan in her signature school uniform: pastel pink sweater, white shirt with red bow tie, and navy pleated skirt. This is a beginner-friendly build that comes together fast, with most pieces thriftable, but three details make it read as Momo: the wig bangs, green earrings, and the exact sweater shade. The wig styling is the hardest part, the earrings are a fun DIY, and the rest is shopping. Includes 8 components, 12 materials, a 10-step plan, and a 3-week, $85 to $225 budget.
10 milestones·12 materials·$85-225·
Use templateWhat to track in miniature painting
Miniature painting involves more logistics than people expect. You're managing paint inventory across brands, tracking which models are at which stage, recording recipes so you can replicate color schemes months later, and trying to shrink the backlog.
- Paint inventory: brand, color name, pot status (full, half, empty, dried out).
- Project milestones: assembled, primed, basecoated, shaded, highlighted, based, sealed.
- Paint recipes: base, shade, layer, highlight sequence per armor panel, skin tone, or fabric.
- Backlog: unbuilt kits, kits in progress, completed models, display status.
Why miniature painters need a tracker
You painted 20 Intercessors six months ago with a specific blue recipe. Now you're adding 10 more and can't remember if the highlight was Hoeth Blue or Lothern Blue. A tracker with saved paint recipes prevents mismatched squads.
Army progress at a glance
A dashboard showing total models owned, models painted, and percentage complete gives you motivation (or guilt). Either way, you know exactly where your army stands before buying another Combat Patrol box.
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