Aim is to make a solution that is a clock, pictured only by color 
... and have never coded anything on arduino. Need help all the way from buying components 
Anyone up for a bit of a babysittingtask? 
What does this mean?
Like: It's BLUE minutes until ORANGE o'clock? I like the art in that. There are many, standard, colorful LED clocks on the Arduino site (around the world). Aim for the most bizarre.
You can't be serious.
Are you a baby, then? How about making an effort yourself? You've set yourself a non-trivial task, which requires a lot of learning. You'll need to learn some basic electronics, and some basic 'C' programming. You are looking at weeks of work. Luckily, the internet is full of suitable tutorials.
Once you've got started, come back here with specific questions and you will get plenty of help.
If you just want a clock and can't be bothered to put the effort in, post a request in Jobs and Paid Consultancy.
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Ay, exactly like that
The algorithm for it, I am more than capable of creating, it's mostly the surrounding factors
Well assuming you can program then... why don't you look at a tutorial for some RGB diodes?
Take a look at Adafruit's Neopixels. Their site has tutorials on how to use them.
A good place to start would be putting together a very basic clock using an RTC.
Display the output on the Serial Monitor, then you’ll have done half the work, and learned a lot on the way.
Because your output medium is basically undefined,you’ll have to make some decisions and tests to see how your ideas work.
The final step of combining the clock project with the display project shoukd be fairly trivial.
Going to have some serious problems with grey and brown, not to mention black. 
No, I'm not and here's the thing: learning Arduino is not especially easy if you have no experience in electronics or coding, I certainly didn't and I'm probably in the majority group of Arduino users; after all, that's why Arduino was invented by the collaboration of Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles, Tom Igoe, Gianluca Martino, and David Mellis, to make interfacing with the world of electronics around us accessible to everyone and I'd say they succeeded.
Inspired by the work of Casey Reas and Ben Fry, who developed the Processing development platform, which the Arduino IDE is based on. In fact, Arduino and Processing play very well together and if you have no idea what Processing is, I highly encourage you to try it out as it comes with lots of examples you can easily run on your PC that you can play around with to get a general feel for how the coding is structured without having to build circuits yet: most examples run on your computer with no need for Arduino or other electronic components! In short, it's a great way to make some mistakes, modify the behaviour of some sketches, break them, try to rebuild them, etc.
While I love me some Arduino, it has the disadvantage of having to change the physical electronics connected to it, which is of course not necessarily easy for beginners, certainly not if you have some grand vision and lack the tools or other resources to make your dream come true...yet. Take heed: anyone will tell you, Arduino is not for quitters! So the trouble is, when you ask a question like you did, know that it's being read by enthusiasts who probably all learned our various skills levels the hard way.
For me, that journey is going on I think nine years and I don't mind telling you there were literally tears shed from time to time in frustration when things didn't work out (I'm sorry Speakjet! Please come back to life! Why oh why did I turn the robot on without ONE LAST CHECK THAT THE BATTERY POLARITY IS CORRECT?! -- hint, because I was rushing)
But I digress. Also, don't let this scare you away. Just know that from what you told us, you have a long journey ahead of you but if this sort of thing interests you (only way to know is to try), when things work out, believe me it's so worth it and no doubt any enthusiast here will agree.
There are lots of books written out there that can give you "recipe" style projects as well, just google for them and you will see.
What I'm saying is, there's no short answer to do what you have asked here. You're gonna have to put work in. To give you an idea, had you simply googled what you're trying to accomplish, to give you an idea of the complexity of your request, you may have come across this:
Good luck! You've got this, but you've got to want it.
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Awesome! Pay no attention to the grumpies. They will always be grumpy.
Here is a clock tutorial. Alarm clock
Having trouble with the Enter key?
Boy, was that ever the most boring video. 
Glad I didn't try and listen to any of it, merely stepped through to see what the end result was.
Maybe @icefang will have another attempt at explaining what he thinks his project would do. 
GRY (CC,CC,CC)
BRN (66,33,00)
BLK (00,00,00)
Adding this sentence because the forum bot thinks I wrote an incomplete sentence on a coding forum.
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I'm not sure what you're trying to say, could you please clarify?
First step is just to know which components to actually aquire
Thanks xfpd
Sure thing Paul. I imagine the final outcome of the project to be a clock that uses 2-3 light panels and uses those to show the time
Like for instance one could be the hours, like red could be 1am, blue could be 2am, purple could be 3am etc etc, and perhaps a second panel (or a combination of two others) could be the minutes.
The algorithm for which I am sure I will be able to do, but first step would be to... buy some stuff that would actually go together for such a solution Or just aquiring the knowledge that it is not possible to do with Arduino, if that was the case.
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