Humbrol to AK Interactive paint conversion chart

Every Humbrol paint with its closest AK Interactive equivalent, matched by CIEDE2000. 115 rows, sorted by name.

101 of the 115 Humbrol colours below have an equivalent in AK Interactive within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 42 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 2.4. The 14 gaps are not spread evenly: 5 of them are blues, so that is the corner of the Humbrol range AK Interactive does not answer.

		ΔE
Aluminium	Aluminium Chipping	3.9
Aluminium	Grey Primer	4.4
Antique Bronze	Red Primer Shine	4.3
Army Green	Ijn M3 (n) Nakajima Interior Green 10ml	3.8
Beige Green	Ivory -2-	2.4
Black	Flat Black, RAL 9005	0.0
Black	Flat Black, RAL 9005	0.0
Black	Black 6rp	1.3
Black Gloss	Flat Black, RAL 9005	0.0
Black Matt	Nato Black	1.5
Black Satin	Nato Black	1.4
Blue	Ultramarine	1.2
Brass	C2 Trainer Yellow	1.7
Brass Metallic	C2 Trainer Yellow	2.2
Bright Green	Luminous Green	5.2
Bronze Metallic	Orange Brown	1.4
Brown	Base Flesh	2.7
Brunswick Green	Nato Green	3.1
Brunswick Green	Nato Green	5.6
Chocolate	Red Primer High Light	2.4
Chrome Silver	White Primer	2.2
Chrome Silver	White Primer	3.8
Copper	Rusty Brass	2.1
Cream	Pale Sand	1.7
Crimson	Rust Surface Primer	4.8
Dark Brown	FS 37886 Offwhite	4.2
Dark Camouflage Grey Satin	Dark Sea Grey	4.5
Dark Earth	Cork Brown / Waffen Spring/ Summer Highlight -25-	3.1
Dark Green	Modern Spanish Green	2.9
Dark Green	Emerald	2.5
Dark Green	Emerald	2.6
Dark Green	RLM 73	1.9
Dark Grey	Sea Blue 10ml	2.0
Desert Tan	Warm Grey	0.7
Desert Yellow	Desert Yellow / Desert Uniform Lights -8-	2.1
Desert Yellow	Nº6 Earth Yellow Fs 30257	2.1
Duck Egg Blue	Snow Blue	2.9
Emerald Green	Emerald Metallic Green	3.2
Extra Dark Sea Grey	Raf Dark Sea Grey Bs381c/638	3.5
Fire Orange	Deep Red	0.9
Flesh	British Desert Pink Zi	3.2
Fluorescent Signal Green	Luminous Green	5.2
French Blue	Deep Blue	6.0
German Camouflage Red	Wwi German Red Brown	2.8
Gloss Purple	Amethyst Blue	6.2
Gloss Varnish	Flat White, RAL 9003	0.0
Gold	Sand Yellow	4.4
Gold	Syrian Republican Guard Desert Yellow	3.2
Grass Green	RAL 7008 Graugrün Opt 2	1.5
Grass Green	RAL 7008 Graugrün Opt 2	2.2
Grey	Light Ghost Grey Fs 36375 10ml	2.9
Gun Metal	Grün – Green RAL 6007	0.9
Gunmetal	Amt-12 Dark Grey	0.3
Insignia Red	Red, RAL 3000	3.6
Insignia Yellow	Yellow	0.8
Italian Racing Red	Clear Red	3.0
Ivory	Ivory	2.2
Khaki	Desert Uniform Base	1.3
Khaki Drill	Desert Sand Fs 30279	5.6
Leather	Orange Brown	4.5
Lemon	Lemon Yellow	1.6
Light Grey	Aluminium Chipping	1.1
Light Olive	Olive Drab High Lights	2.4
Lime	Luminous Green	3.7
Lime Green	Apc Interior Light Green (fs24533)	4.6
Magenta	Magenta	12.3
Matt Olive Drab	Olivgrün – Olive Green RAL 6003	2.0
Matt Tank Grey	Amt-12 Dark Grey	2.3
Mediterranean Blue	Deep Sky Blue -78-	4.9
Medium Sea Grey	Light Ghost Grey Fs 36375 10ml	0.6
Middle Blue	Deep Sky Blue -78-	1.3
Midnight Blue	Clear Blue	3.4
Midnight Blue	Clear Blue	3.4
Natural Wood	RLM 79 (1942)	3.6
Oak	Cream White, RAL 9001	3.7
Ocean Grey	RAL 7050 F7 German Sand Beige	3.7
Olive Drab	Russian Green 4bo	0.5
Olive Green	Idf Sand Grey 1970s-1980s	2.6
Orange	Clear Orange	2.4
Orange	Clear Orange	3.8
Pastel Blue	Wwi German Light Blue	5.7
Pastel Green	Pastel Green	6.2
Pastel Violet	Wwi German Lilac	7.6
Pink	Pastel Pink	12.1
Primer	French Blue	2.2
Primer	507b Admirality Medium Grey	2.9
Purple	Dark Violet -71-	6.5
RAF Blue	FS 35450 Air Superiority Blue	4.4
Red	Deep Red	3.1
Red	Foundry Red	4.3
Rust	Copper -87-	7.5
Sand	Tan Yellow	1.3
Sand	Golden Flesh	2.3
Satin Varnish	Flat White, RAL 9003	0.0
Scarlet	Clear Red	1.3
Sea Grey	RLM 74	1.2
Sea Grey	French Blue	2.1
Service Brown	RAL 8017 Schokobraun	0.7
Signal Red	Deep Red	1.8
Silver	Gloss Medium	0.2
Silver	Aluminium Chipping	1.1
Tan	Orange Brown	1.5
Tank Grey	RAL 5008 Grey-blue (graublau)	1.7
Trainer Yellow	Yellow, RAL 1003	1.5
US Ghost Grey	FS 16473 Adc Grey	2.3
US Light Green	A-19f Grass Green	2.2
US Tan	Copper -87-	3.5
WWI Blue	Blue Gray	7.5
White	Flat White, RAL 9003	0.0
White	Flat White, RAL 9003	0.0
White	Flat White, RAL 9003	0.0
White Gloss	Flat Varnish	1.9
White Matt	Schwarzgrau-black Grey RAL 7021	1.4
Yellow	Lemon Yellow	1.5
Yellow	Lemon Yellow	1.8

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