Free Warhammer / D&D miniature paint mixer. Enter a custom ratio (e.g. 3 drops A : 1 drop B : 2 water) and your army size; outputs total drops needed without drying out and a printable recipe card.
Use before mixing a custom shade for a project so you don't run out halfway through (or dry out unused paint by mixing too much).
Tutorials often give ratios without volumes. This tool turns "3:1 mix" into actual drop counts for your army size.
Drops-per-model is derived from miniature scale (infantry / monster / terrain) and coverage style (basecoat / layer / drybrush).
Your recipe ratio (e.g., 3 drops A : 1 drop B : 2 water) is scaled to the total drops needed for the whole army.
One drop ≈ 0.05 ml from a standard hobby dropper.
Roughly 0.05 ml from a standard hobby paint dropper. The total estimate is conservative.
Standard 28mm infantry. Larger models (vehicles, monsters) and terrain pieces are scaled with multipliers.
Mixing per model makes it nearly impossible to reproduce the exact same shade twice, causing visible color drift across a unit. Batching the whole army from one ratio keeps every miniature consistent.
Thinning with water increases volume and smooths brush strokes but reduces opacity, so heavily watered mixes need more coats. Keep the same water ratio across the batch so coverage stays even from the first model to the last.
Input
20 infantry models, basecoat, 3:1:2 ratio.
Output
~16 total drops needed.
20 × 0.8 drops/model = 16 total. With a 3:1:2 mix, that's 8 drops of color A, 3 of color B, 5 of water/thinner — round up for waste.
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