Arteza to Tamiya paint conversion chart

Every Arteza paint with its closest Tamiya equivalent, matched by CIEDE2000. 88 rows, sorted by name.

41 of the 88 Arteza colours below have an equivalent in Tamiya within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 9 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 5.2. The 47 gaps are not spread evenly: 11 of them are reds, so that is the corner of the Arteza range Tamiya 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.

Shop Tamiya setShop Arteza set

One side of this chart is a craft or fine-art range: what these matches promise, and where a craft bottle belongs on a model

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

Reverse: Tamiya → Arteza

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