Paint Equivalents

Humbrol to Coat d'Arms paint conversion chart

Every Humbrol paint with its closest Coat d'Arms equivalent, matched by CIEDE2000. 115 rows, sorted by name.

52 of the 115 Humbrol colours below have an equivalent in Coat d'Arms within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 10 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 5.2. The 63 gaps are not spread evenly: 14 of them are oranges, so that is the corner of the Humbrol range Coat d'Arms does not answer.

HumbrolCoat d'ArmsΔE
Aluminium Silver 3.9
Aluminium Silver 5.3
Antique Bronze Barbarian Leather 6.3
Army Green Light Earth 3.8
Beige Green Unbleached Wool 3.1
Black Black 0.0
Black Black 0.0
Black Black 4.5
Black Gloss Black 0.0
Black Matt Black 7.6
Black Satin Dark Flesh 7.4
Blue Nauseous Blue 6.1
Brass Desert Sand 8.8
Brass Metallic Golden Yellow 9.0
Bright Green Scorpion Green 8.3
Bronze Metallic Italian Red Earth 9.5
Brown Barbarian Leather 3.6
Brunswick Green Muddy Green 9.5
Brunswick Green Muddy Green 12.2
Chocolate Hairy Brown 3.5
Chrome Silver White 5.1
Chrome Silver Silver 5.0
Copper Barbarian Leather 9.8
Cream Pale Sand 3.8
Crimson Vampire Red 9.0
Dark Brown Bronze 6.5
Dark Camouflage Grey Satin Gun Metal 5.1
Dark Earth Beige Brown 2.4
Dark Green Dark Earth 9.6
Dark Green Dark Green 5.0
Dark Green Dark Green 5.3
Dark Green Black 8.4
Dark Grey Deadly Nightshade 5.4
Desert Tan Bright Gold 5.6
Desert Yellow Festering Brown 5.2
Desert Yellow Festering Brown 3.6
Duck Egg Blue Elven Grey 7.0
Emerald Green Tank Green 5.1
Extra Dark Sea Grey Field Blue 9.8
Fire Orange Blood Red 4.7
Flesh Tanned Flesh 5.3
Fluorescent Signal Green Scorpion Green 8.3
French Blue Nauseous Blue 5.6
German Camouflage Red Wood Brown 4.3
Gloss Purple Poison Purple 5.4
Gloss Varnish White 0.0
Gold Golden Yellow 6.5
Gold Golden Yellow 6.3
Grass Green Tank Drab 4.1
Grass Green Tank Drab 3.4
Grey Enchanted Silver 6.7
Gun Metal Dark Earth 7.3
Gunmetal Angel Green 8.1
Insignia Red Vampire Red 4.2
Insignia Yellow Golden Yellow 2.1
Italian Racing Red Vampire Red 3.9
Ivory Linen 3.3
Khaki Sandy Brown 8.5
Khaki Drill Horse Tone – Roan 3.4
Leather Vampire Red 9.3
Lemon Ink Wash Yellow 7.3
Light Grey Silver 4.7
Light Olive Horse Tone – Brown 1.1
Lime Scorpion Green 9.1
Lime Green Unbleached Wool 5.3
Magenta Purple 11.9
Matt Olive Drab Muddy Green 4.5
Matt Tank Grey Angel Green 5.3
Mediterranean Blue Hawk Turquoise 3.1
Medium Sea Grey Enchanted Silver 5.5
Middle Blue Hawk Turquoise 4.4
Midnight Blue Royal Blue 7.7
Midnight Blue Royal Blue 7.1
Natural Wood Beige Brown 4.3
Oak Bone 3.3
Ocean Grey Light Earth 1.9
Olive Drab Muddy Green 2.6
Olive Green British Khaki 3.6
Orange Italian Red Earth 4.1
Orange Italian Red Earth 2.9
Pastel Blue Lupin Grey 4.8
Pastel Green Unbleached Wool 6.0
Pastel Violet Shocking Pink 5.5
Pink Shocking Pink 9.2
Primer Dark Earth 4.6
Primer Tank Blue Grey 3.5
Purple Super Wash Purple 15.1
RAF Blue Shadow Grey 7.0
Red Blood Red 5.3
Red Blood Red 3.7
Rust Beaten Copper 7.1
Sand Desert Sand 5.1
Sand Desert Sand 5.4
Satin Varnish White 0.0
Scarlet Vampire Red 2.4
Sea Grey Dark Earth 2.7
Sea Grey Iron Grey 3.7
Service Brown Chesnut Brown 5.6
Signal Red Blood Red 5.6
Silver Elven Grey 5.0
Silver Silver 4.6
Tan Italian Red Earth 11.0
Tank Grey Deadly Nightshade 7.4
Trainer Yellow Dusky Yellow 2.3
US Ghost Grey Enchanted Silver 6.8
US Light Green Russian Green 2.8
US Tan Leather Brown 5.2
WWI Blue Shadow Grey 2.3
White White 0.0
White White 0.0
White White 0.0
White Gloss White 3.6
White Matt Angel Green 6.0
Yellow Dusky Yellow 6.6
Yellow Dusky Yellow 6.3