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Does that mean for fantasy overlays white and white factor are roughly the same canvas? They don’t react differently or something?

Paintbrush cool + nacr + platinum might be exactly the nonsense I’m looking for. What’s the difference between paintbrush (I assume their is a paintbrush warm) and watercolor?

Thank you for taking the time to explain this and show me things.

Paintbrush JUST colours the mane and tail. It does absolutely nothing to the body color, which means if you like playing around with patterns, you’re good as long as you don’t end up with so much white that the mane and tail go white (which will cover up your paintbrush).

Paintbrush comes in cool, warm and “prism” which is all the colors. If you grew up watching Rainbow Brite, her white horse with the rainbow mane and tail had paintbrush prism for the purposes of this discussion.

Bay paintbrush warm

Suspect Trailer 2

Silver bay paintbrush warm

Italic Observe 2

Bay paintbrush cool

Massachusetts Planet 2

Silver bay paintbrush cool

Visit Girl 2

Bay paintbrush prism

Summit Countries 2

Silver bay paintbrush prism

Preceding Legendary 3

I hope that is all helpful in the sense that now you have more questions to ask!

So, white = patterns
White factor = size of patterns.

White20 (W20) will increase the amount of white as well, but everything else (tobiano, white 1, white 8, etc) are all just patterns.

Honestly, with white factor it depends. Watercolour does not override the white on a horse. But something like the Axiom genes will result in funky stuff on a horses white. For wrong warp, the white will turn black.

Het Wrong Warp with socks and blaze:


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Hom Wrong Warp with more extensive splash:

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Thunderstruck is part of the "rainbow riot" group, which does include watercolour, nacre, and the paintbrush genes. Thunderstruck, probably a bit weirdly named, adds Lightning bolts onto the horse, and gives them a little bit of a glow. From what I know it doesn't effect the base coat or mane/tail at all, apart from the glowing aura it grants. The Paintbrush genes though will change the colour of the horses mane and tail.

Thunderstruck on a brown dun:

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@summermonarch, as Obsidian mentioned, white patterns = white markings and white factor = size of markings. In 99% of cases (looking at you, Lp complex) genes that affect a horse's base coat color will be overridden by white patterns.

I think the concept you're thinking of is pigmentation. This is the factor that determines how light or dark a horse's base coat color will be. Agouti extension genes (bay) and dilution genes (cream, dun, silver, etc) make a horse's coat lighter. For example, dun+bay=bay dun, and cream+chestnut=palomino, etc.

Sooty and DP will make a horse's coat darker and more intensely pigmented, as demonstrated by others above. Be aware that Ammit is planning on updating bay soon-ish which means that each copy of dominant E (eumelanin or black pigmented base coat) and A (Agouti extension/bay) will also darken a horse's coat.

If you're looking for a light body with a darker mane and tail, I highly recommend bay, buckskin, and buckskin pearls as others have mentioned! Paintbrush cool on a dark mane will also add some pizazz and should be fairly well pigmented if the mane and tail underneath are darker than the coat.

@SummerMonarch honestly one of the best things you can do for yourself in this game is learn to use the Horse Search. I would recommend mixing together looking at horses in the Breeders Clubs and then trying to find horses that are similar to them in the Horse Search as you see things that are super cool.

Every once in a while someone will stumble upon a weird combination of genes that look amazing together. For instance:

This is Ice 10. It’s cool, for sure, but can look really faded out on any light base coat color.

Biological Discrimination 2

Plebeian Creation 2

Jambul Finding 2

And this is Wrong Warp. Again, pretty cool, especially if you mix it with lighter colours.

Networks Barcelona 2

Stowaway Nick 2

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But how would you ever guess that when you put the two together, you get this awesomeness?

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Restriction Axolotl 6

And if you add Thunderstruck you get this insanity:

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If you want a white horse with a fantasy colored mane and tail, gray does not override the paintbrush genes. When they came out I added them into my red based gray line to get just that effect. The new gray update makes them even more gorgeous. Here are some examples
Paintbrush cool and paintbrush warm age 25

Cerulean Cadence 1X

Paintbrush Prism age 20

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Paintbursh cool age 16

Yard Syncopation 2B

Paintbrush warm age 13

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Paintbrush prism age 10

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Paintbrush cool age 7

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Paintbrush warm age 3

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