Since each brick is made of plastic it can also be repainted, e.g. by airbrush or from spraypaint. The paint colours that are available are almost always part of a Standard Colour system, e.g. RAL in Europe, FS 595 in USA, and others, like Australian Standard AS2700 and Britisch Standard Colours. To make a brick mosaic can now be made with a much wider and more fitting colour palette than the 50 practical or so colours of bricks and the 24 of Ministeck®.

It requires though a bit of DIY to actually prepare the bricks, spraypaint, wait to dry and then build the mosaic. Finally, you can create your own Standard Colour database. The details of how to create a valid database is found in the 'Additional help' on Dataset structures .

Activate the Standard Colour

The Standard colours must first be active. This is done by selecting the pressing the 'Standard colours' option from the 'Special functions' in the main menu bar. This will then open the Colour matching options window, press on the gray text (in the empty area on top) 'Click here to activate the Standard colours'. You are then asked to agree, because the current brick-colour dataset will be discarded and the new Standard Colour dataset will become active.

When you right-click in the graphical colours reprentations area (the 'dots') you can conveniently convert the standard colours data set into a Legoaizer brick dataset. There are four possible conversions. All sets except Ministeck® are converted to a one-brick dataset (3005 (1x1) for bricks, 3437 (2x2) for duplo, and 1x1 for Beads). The Ministeck® sets is completely converted to its 5-piece brick set. The sets are only saved, and are not automatically opened in the application. The sets are saved in the default location (see here for details).

As mentioned above, the only way to get the e.g. Bricklink data tables for real Ministeck® and bricks back again is by opening these via the main menu 'Colour table' >  'Open table' and then select your choice of colour table. Of course you can also quit the application and restart. That will load the last used table again. The Standard Colour set is not remembered when exiting the application. Basically that is all there is to do. After the Standard Colour is activated, you can create mosaics like with any normal brick-colour (and Bricklink) dataset.

Brick selections of a Standard Colour set

Unlike a real brick and Ministeck® dataset (brick-colour table), the Standard Colours have no associated bricks. Therefore all the colours are connected to a predefined series of bricks, with no initial restrictions on availability. The cost of each brick is however calculated from clever use of the Bricklink dataset, where the cheapest prices for these bricks are used as guidelines. This way a pretty realistic cost estimation is still possible, and as a consequence the cost of a brick is therefore the same for every colour.

These are the bricks that are associated with the Standard Colours: 1x1, 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, 1x6, 1x8, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4, 2x6 and 2x8 studs. You can also edit the availability like any normal brick-colour table, by unchecking a brick-colour combination in the brick table editor, and then save the result for a next project.

Colour content of the Standard Colour set

Below you see three examples of a colour range from three standards. Each dot is a colour point. There are no checkboxes for each colour in this overview, so you cannot pre-select colours from this list. That is only possible with the list in the main interface (like you do with a normal brick-colour table).

Picture: from left to right Australian Standard AS2700, RAL Classic and Federal Standard 595. 

Change a Standard Colour set

To change the colour set you select one from the drop-down list, and then press the 'Apply' button. It will immediately replace all the colours in this windows and the list in the main interface.