Humbrol to Foundry paint conversion chart

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

88 of the 115 Humbrol colours below have an equivalent in Foundry within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 31 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 3.2. The 27 gaps are not spread evenly: 8 of them are yellows, so that is the corner of the Humbrol range Foundry does not answer.

		ΔE
Aluminium	Armour Light	2.5
Aluminium	Armour Light	3.3
Antique Bronze	Spearshaft	1.8
Army Green	Quagmire Light	5.2
Beige Green	French Dragoon Green Light	3.7
Black	Charcoal Black Shade	0.0
Black	Charcoal Black Shade	0.0
Black	Blackened Barrel	3.1
Black Gloss	Charcoal Black Shade	0.0
Black Matt	Blackened Barrel	2.6
Black Satin	British Denison Green Shade	4.8
Blue	British Royal Blue Light	4.7
Brass	Ochre Shade	2.1
Brass Metallic	Ochre Shade	0.6
Bright Green	French Gun Olive Green	9.6
Bronze Metallic	Flesh Shade	4.7
Brown	North African Flesh Shade	2.8
Brunswick Green	Forest Green Shade	5.4
Brunswick Green	Forest Green Shade	4.8
Chocolate	British Uniform Brown	2.5
Chrome Silver	Gun Metal Light	1.5
Chrome Silver	Gun Metal Light	3.2
Copper	Tan	5.5
Cream	Bone yard	4.1
Crimson	Bright Red Shade	3.6
Dark Brown	British Denison Brown Light	2.8
Dark Camouflage Grey Satin	British Equipment Tan Shade	4.0
Dark Earth	Drab Butternut	2.3
Dark Green	Storm Green Shade	6.3
Dark Green	Bright Green Shade	6.7
Dark Green	Bright Green Shade	7.0
Dark Green	Blackened Barrel	5.7
Dark Grey	Slate Grey Shade	3.8
Desert Tan	Drab Light	2.7
Desert Yellow	Bone yard Shade	4.1
Desert Yellow	Dusky Flesh Light	3.9
Duck Egg Blue	Austrian White	7.4
Emerald Green	Bright Bottle Green Light	4.5
Extra Dark Sea Grey	Gun Metal Shade	5.4
Fire Orange	British Redcoat	2.0
Flesh	German Oak Leaf Orange Light	4.3
Fluorescent Signal Green	French Gun Olive Green	9.6
French Blue	Sky Blue Shade	5.1
German Camouflage Red	Spearshaft Shade	1.8
Gloss Purple	Soviet Winter Brown Shade	7.8
Gloss Varnish	White	0.0
Gold	Lemon Shade	1.0
Gold	Lemon Shade	1.4
Grass Green	Phlegm Green	4.0
Grass Green	Quagmire Light	5.0
Grey	Gun Metal	3.2
Gun Metal	Russian Green Shade	6.5
Gunmetal	Blackened Barrel Light	2.5
Insignia Red	British Redcoat Shade	1.7
Insignia Yellow	Yellow Shade	0.3
Italian Racing Red	Madder Red Light	4.0
Ivory	Burnished Copper Light	1.4
Khaki	Palomino Shade	1.3
Khaki Drill	British Denison Tan Light	1.9
Leather	Spearshaft	6.6
Lemon	Lemon	2.5
Light Grey	Armour	2.0
Light Olive	British Uniform Brown Shade	1.5
Lime	Phlegm Green Light	7.8
Lime Green	French Dragoon Green Light	5.7
Magenta	Shadow Pink	4.2
Matt Olive Drab	Phlegm Green Shade	4.7
Matt Tank Grey	British Royal Blue Shade	2.3
Mediterranean Blue	Union Trouser Blue	4.9
Medium Sea Grey	Gun Metal	4.1
Middle Blue	Prussian Gun Mid Blue Light	2.7
Midnight Blue	French Blue	2.6
Midnight Blue	French Blue	1.6
Natural Wood	Rich Butternut	2.7
Oak	Base Sand Light	1.5
Ocean Grey	Quagmire Light	3.5
Olive Drab	Soviet Equipment Green	5.1
Olive Green	Bronze Barrel Shade	3.5
Orange	Scarlet Light	4.3
Orange	German Oak Leaf Orange	3.1
Pastel Blue	French Hussar Sky Blue	7.1
Pastel Green	French Dragoon Green Light	2.5
Pastel Violet	Wine Stain Red Light	15.0
Pink	Nipple Pink	5.1
Primer	Charcoal Black Light	2.9
Primer	German Splinter Green Shade	2.1
Purple	Violet Shade	6.8
RAF Blue	Union Trouser Blue Shade	5.3
Red	British Redcoat	4.5
Red	British Redcoat	6.0
Rust	South American Flesh	1.5
Sand	Buff Leather Shade	3.4
Sand	Dusky Flesh Light	0.7
Satin Varnish	White	0.0
Scarlet	Madder Red Light	1.3
Sea Grey	Charcoal Black Light	2.4
Sea Grey	Charcoal Black Light	4.2
Service Brown	German Splinter Brown	3.6
Signal Red	Bright Red	3.0
Silver	Armour	2.2
Silver	Armour	1.9
Tan	Tan	6.2
Tank Grey	British Royal Blue Shade	1.1
Trainer Yellow	Orange Light	2.2
US Ghost Grey	British Gun Grey Light	4.2
US Light Green	Soviet Equipment Green	4.0
US Tan	German Oak Leaf Orange Shade	2.2
WWI Blue	Prussian Gun Mid Blue	6.1
White	White	0.0
White	White	0.0
White	White	0.0
White Gloss	Austrian White Light	2.8
White Matt	Blackened Barrel Light	0.0
Yellow	Yellow	2.2
Yellow	Yellow	1.9

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