Cross-brand paint search for miniature painting

PaintAtlas brings 8,200 miniature paints from 32 brands into one searchable catalog, so you can research coverage before you ever open a paint rack or start a shopping cart. Instead of bouncing between separate manufacturer charts, brand sites, and hobby forum threads, you can move between brand pages, color-family pages, compare workflows, and individual paint profiles from one place.

The catalog is strongest when you need cross-brand decision support. Popular ranges such as Vallejo, AK Interactive, Army Painter, and Mr. Paint all sit inside the same index, and the most active browsing clusters tend to center on Orange, Grey, Red, and Yellow. That makes the site useful both for painters who shop by brand loyalty and for painters who build palettes around a specific tone or project requirement.

PaintAtlas is also built to answer the practical question behind most hobby searches: what is the closest usable alternative, and what role does that paint play inside a scheme. The site records measurable color information, surfaces related paints, and gives enough surrounding context to decide whether a paint is best treated as a base, layer, shadow, highlight, or companion rather than forcing you to infer everything from a small swatch.

If you are exploring the catalog for the first time, start with the broadest discovery routes. Browse the full catalog to understand overall range coverage, move into brand pages to study what a line emphasizes, open color-family pages to compare the same hue across manufacturers, and use the compare tool when you want a direct side-by-side read on Delta E, finish, and opacity. Across the catalog, the most common paint types currently include acrylic, air, dry, and metallic, which gives you a quick sense of how much of the database is aimed at base coating, layering, effects work, or speed-focused workflows.