Miniature Wargame Project Tracker

The Mini Mainframe is a miniature wargame project tracker. Armies, units, models and terrain go on one roster with a status, a priority, a deadline and a completion figure — so the hobby backlog stops being a shelf you avoid looking at and becomes a queue you can work through.

Your army, as a tree

A project can be an army, a warband, a unit, a single model, a terrain piece or a diorama, and projects nest — an army holds its units, a unit holds its models. That means a 2,000-point force and the one character you are painting tonight both live in the same roster, at the level of detail each deserves.

Each project carries a faction, a game, a points value and notes, so the roster reads like your hobby rather than a generic task list.

A pile of shame tracker that actually counts

Progress is not a guess or a slider you drag. Every project counts models through five real stages — built, primed, painted, based, completed — and the completion percentage falls out of those counters and rolls up to the army above. Half-finished units read as half finished.

That is what makes a hobby backlog tracker useful: you can see that the reason the army is stuck is thirty models sitting at “primed”, not a vague feeling that there is a lot left.

Decide once what to paint next

Status, priority and a target date on every project mean the “what should I paint next” question gets answered once instead of every time you sit down. A tournament date goes on the calendar, the units that have to be table-ready before it get the priority, and the roster tells you where you are against it.

Then actually sit down and paint

Pin a model to the Focus bench and you get its paint recipe, its notes, its reference images and a session timer on one screen. Log the session and the minutes go against the project, alongside a running streak — so the tracker records what you did, not only what is left.

Terrain, printed minis and every other system

Nothing here is tied to one manufacturer or one rulebook. Terrain pieces, printed miniatures, historicals, skirmish warbands and board-game inserts all track the same way, and the paints behind them come from a cross-brand paint collection rather than a single range.

What it costs

Projects, the roster and the Focus bench are part of the base app — no card needed. Sponsoring the Mainframe for $3.99/mo adds army-list auto-build, which turns a pasted or uploaded army list into the whole project tree, plus the colour toolkit, the Paint Scanner and AI recipe generation.

Backlog questions

What counts as a project?
An army, and everything under it — units and warbands, individual models, and terrain. Each one carries its own status, priority, deadline and completion, so a whole force and a single character both live in the same roster.
How does it help with the pile of shame?
Every unpainted model is on the roster with the stage it is stuck at — built, primed, painted, based, complete — so the backlog stops being a guess. Each project carries a priority and a deadline, so the question of what to paint next gets answered once instead of every time you sit down.
Can I track painting sessions?
Yes. The Focus bench puts one model's recipe, notes and inspiration on a single screen with a session timer, and the time is logged against the project.
Does it work for terrain and non-Warhammer miniatures?
Yes. Projects are not tied to any one game or manufacturer — terrain, printed miniatures, historicals and skirmish warbands all track the same way.
Is the project tracker free?
Yes. Projects, the roster and the Focus bench are part of the base app with no card needed. Sponsoring the Mainframe for $3.99/mo adds the colour toolkit, the Paint Scanner, AI recipe generation and army-list auto-build.

Keep looking around

Put the pile on a roster and it stops being a pile. Free to start, no card needed.