Acrilex to Tom Color paint conversion chart

Every Acrilex paint with its closest Tom Color equivalent, matched by CIEDE2000. 95 rows, sorted by name.

27 of the 95 Acrilex colours below have an equivalent in Tom Color within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 3 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 7.4. The 68 gaps are not spread evenly: 16 of them are pink-reds, so that is the corner of the Acrilex range Tom Color does not answer.

How close is close enough? Reading the ΔE column

Moving a whole recipe across takes more than one pot. These search the boxed sets each range is sold in.

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Converting a one-coat range? Contrast, Speedpaint and Xpress rows need a tighter bracket than the rest of this table

Reverse: Tom Color → Acrilex

The reverse chart is a different answer, not this one upside down: how much of a range another really covers, in both directions