Basic Painter: a Blood Ravens scheme in twelve named slots

About this game

Developer: KING Art Games · Publisher: Deep Silver · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Character / Unit Detail

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What to study

The Painter translates tabletop painting into a form: a scheme is twelve named slots, and the names are the hobby's own (Primary through Quaternary, Trim, Cloth, Sergeant Helmet) so a player who has painted a Blood Raven already knows what each swatch will do. The model stands at full height in the scheme as you build it, and the faction → chapter → unit selector chain makes clear the scheme belongs to an army, not a single miniature, while the 1/4 pager invites checking it across the roster. The Advanced tier (per-model styles, parent schemes) exists behind the second tab; Basic earns its name by hiding all of it. Frame at about 7:30 in the Gameplay Overview Trailer video (Steam), a pipeline scene-change survivor (candidates/v0_0111.png at 449.9s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

panel-grid side-panel character-presenter

Components

Parts on screen.

Tabs

Screen inventory

• top: the same mode tab bar, PAINTER lit, with BASIC / ADVANCED as a sub-tab pair, two depths of the same tool, basic first
• the unit path as three linked selectors: Space Marines (faction) → Blood Ravens (chapter, ticked as chosen) → Bladeguard Veteran (unit), with a CREATE BASIC SCHEME plaque beneath
• left: the scheme as twelve labelled swatches in two rows, Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Quaternary, Helmet, Sergeant Helmet; Trim, Cloth 1, Cloth 2, Accessory 1, a chapter decal tile and Battle Role Decal, miniature-painting vocabulary, not RGB pickers
• centre: the Veteran at full height wearing exactly those colours, bone shoulder pads, red armour and cloth, so every swatch change has a life-size answer; a 1/4 pager at the bottom cycles the army's units

Top 3 colors

#211f1f 21%#060606 20%#2f2b29 20%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© KING Art Games / Deep Silver, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV screenshot: Gameplay Overview Trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Deep Silver.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-22. verified 2026-10-22: pipeline scene-change frame (candidates/v0_0111.png, 449.9s) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native), settled Basic Painter screen, swatch grid, selector chain and unit model sharp and legible

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