Brushrage - Miniature Painting

Hendarion

About this app

Brushrage is aimed at miniature and model painters to organise and track their model collection, projects, progress, paints used and colours used or in possession.

Features of the phone version:
- Tracks projects and colour palettes with exact timers and activity reminders
- Tracks your collection and its progress
- Comes with a paint library of 15.000+ paints
- Includes a bulk-barcode-scanner
- Helps finding similar paints
- Create paint-sets, palettes and How-To's
- Wishlist and Inventory
- Custom paint mixing backed by a highly accurate mathematical model far beyond plain RGB-mixing
- Finds paints from photos and store them as references
- Can share palettes to social media
- Gives insights with statistics and summaries

---- Supplied Paint Ranges ----

• Abteilung 502
• AK Interactive
• Alclad II
• AMMO by Mig
• Andrea
• Badger Minitaire
• Citadel / Forge World
• Coat d'arms
• Colour Forge
• Creatix
• Creature Caster
• Cuttlefish Colors
• Daler Rowney
• Darkstar Molten Metals
• Forge World
• Formula P3
• Gaia
• Gamblin
• Gamescraft
• Golden
• GreenStuffWorld
• Hataka Hobby
• Hera Models
• Huge Miniatures
• Humbrol
• Instar
• Kimera
• LifeColor
• Liquitex
• MiniaturePaints
• Mission Models
• Molotow
• Montana
• Monument Hobbies
• Mr. Hobby
• Nocturna Models
• Reaper
• Revell
• Royal Talens
• Scale 75
• Schmincke
• SMS
• Tamiya
• Testors
• TheArmyPainter
• Turbo Dork
• TTCombat
• Vallejo
• WarColours
• Wargames Foundry
• Williamsburg
• Winsor & Newton

Features of the Wear OS version:
You can inspect your project timers, navigate through your projects and start of stop timers and get reminded of active timers. It requires the phone version to create and manage your data.

---- Disclaimer on used permissions ----

The app uses the following permissions for the following purposes. The app will not access your photos or camera or upload any of your data without your own intentional actions or without visual feedback or your consent.

• Storage & photos (optional): The app allows picking photos from your phone to attach to your projects
• Camera and video (optional): The app allows to attach photos in various places (for example projects, How-Tos, comments, paints, Paint-Sets, Swatches/Gallery) and also has a Barcode-Scanner which uses the video-mode of the camera.
• Internet and download: The app has various online-features like downloading How-Tos, Paint-Sets, making online-backup (Server or Google Drive) of your data and downloading images from the web or from Instagram or to perform an anonymous read-only version-check.
• Preventing stand-by: While using the barcode-scanner, the app prevents the phone from going into stand-by, so you can keep scanning without the screen getting locked automatically.
• Controlling vibration: The app has optional reminders about active timers or to make you go paint. These reminders may vibrate if you want to.
• Notifications: See above. All notifications are optional and can be disabled in the settings.

Ratings and reviews

I'm only a couple of days into this gem, but I'm VERY impressed. It is not intuitive to me, but the help section solved most of my issues (RTFM). I probably will only use a fraction of it's capabilities, but that's how great software often is. I just want to say that this thing is written to a standard I strove for when I was still coding, Very impressive. One thing I can't figure out, though, is how to delete a swatch I put in while experimenting... Not taking any stars off for that though.

Very nice to be able to track time on your projects, remember what paints you used, take progress photos etc. Not an essential app, but definitely one that adds just a bit more to your own time management and sense of progression in the hobby. Edit: became a non doofus, and figured out some of the issues I was having. No more complaints here.

If you paint miniatures you need this application. Even the basic features are a godsend. If you only use it to keep track of what paints you used on a particular miniature, it's still awesome. I use it to track my paint inventory and that is such a huge help once you've collected over 200 paints! I'm strictly modern wargaming, so I paint a lot of different camouflage patterns. So, I define "Sets" of each camouflage pattern, Woodland, Multicam, Tiger Stripe, etc. I can access this information so quickly, I'm spending more time painting than looking up old projects that use a camo pattern I want to use again. It's all about organization and considering I usually have 2 or 3 different projects going at once, I need to be as organized as possible. There are several advanced features that I haven't even begun to use yet...but I'm excited that they are there for when I'm ready. I've emailed the app creator for an issue and he was immediately back to me with my answers. He cares about this app and it's constantly being updated. Finally, multiple backup options, including Google Drive which is a blessing for me.

What's new

● Library Update (GSW Opaque)
● HowTo's auto save
● Context menu entry to insert Project templates

Previously:
● Library Update (mostly Vallejo)
● Reference photo section & option to display all photos in a project's photo-section
● Palettes remember collapse/expand state
● Streaming palettes now available in right-to-left layout
● Cluster-streaming
● Icon to mark paints in the Wishlist
● Palette to Wishlist option
● Copy comments from Inventory to Palette
● Buying stuff from the Wishlist