James Weaver

New features

• Added nine Vallejo paint ranges
  • 51 Game Air airbrush paints
  • 73 Mecha Color paints, including primers, metallics and weathering effects
  • 80 True Metallic Metal paints: 20 colours, each in light, base, shade and air
  • 34 Hobby Paint sprays
  • 17 Primers
  • Four effects ranges: 29 Pigment FX, 26 Diorama FX, 18 Wash FX and 28 Weathering FX
• Added AI matching for tutorial paints whose names in the video don't match the catalogue, such as a misheard "Corn Red" for Khorne Red, choosing only from paints in the catalogue
• Redesigned search, with results grouped into paints, tutorials, authors, and armies and factions, and a full search results page
• Added CSV and JSON export for your collection and wishlist
• Added account settings to change your display name, email or password, download your data, or delete your account
• Added a privacy page

Improvements

• Added product codes to the Vallejo Game Air range
• Improved tutorial paint matching when a video names the paint type, such as "Grey Primer"
• Split paint mixes in tutorials into one step per paint
• Redesigned the tutorials list, with jump-to links for each game and clearer headings
• Added the author to tutorial addresses, such as /tutorial/duncan-rhodes/commander-farsight/
• Limited the type filter to types found in the selected paint range
• Switched tutorial videos to YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode, so YouTube sets no cookies until you press play
• Improved accessibility, so screen readers announce buttons and links by the words they show
• Added "page not found" and error pages

Bug fixes

• Fixed eight Vallejo Model Color paints missing from the range
• Fixed 128 swatch colours and 17 paint names in Vallejo Model Color, Model Air, Game Color and Xpress Color, checked against Vallejo's 2026 catalogue
• Fixed tutorial paints from brands that aren't in the catalogue, such as Reaper or P3, being matched to another brand's paint of the same name
• Fixed airbrush-only and spray-only ranges, such as Vallejo Model Air, showing no paints
• Fixed an out-of-date Paint Range selection being kept when a page reloaded
• Fixed the highlighted search result sometimes being lost while results updated

Optimisations

• Moved hosting from Railway to Render following the Railway security incident, and the database to Postgres 18
• Added long-term browser caching for stylesheets and scripts, using content-hashed file names
• Made the site start about 24 seconds faster on each deploy and restart, by preparing static files when it's built
• Hardened security with secure cookies and a Content-Security-Policy