Humbrol to Mr. Hobby paint conversion chart

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

90 of the 115 Humbrol colours below have an equivalent in Mr. Hobby within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 29 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 3.7. The 25 gaps are not spread evenly: 6 of them are reds, so that is the corner of the Humbrol range Mr. Hobby does not answer.

		ΔE
Aluminium	Shine Silver	3.7
Aluminium	Gun Chrome	3.9
Antique Bronze	Brass	5.9
Army Green	Dark Seagray	3.7
Beige Green	Duck Egg Green	4.4
Black	Black	0.0
Black	Black	0.0
Black	RLM66 Black Gray A	3.7
Black Gloss	Black	0.0
Black Matt	RLM66 Black Gray A	1.7
Black Satin	RLM66 Black Gray A	3.7
Blue	Metal Dark Blue	4.0
Brass	Yellow Fs13538	6.2
Brass Metallic	Yellow Fs13538	4.9
Bright Green	Yellow Green	7.1
Bronze Metallic	Rust Red	5.0
Brown	Red Brown (2)	5.8
Brunswick Green	IJN Green	5.8
Brunswick Green	IJN Green	2.9
Chocolate	Dust Brown	3.8
Chrome Silver	Plate Silver Next	2.6
Chrome Silver	RX-78 Yellow	2.9
Copper	Brass	4.6
Cream	Radome	4.9
Crimson	Red Fs11136	3.1
Dark Brown	Character Flesh (1)	4.6
Dark Camouflage Grey Satin	Burnt Iron	5.6
Dark Earth	Japanese Brown	1.8
Dark Green	Olive Drab Shadow	7.7
Dark Green	Russian Green (2)	5.2
Dark Green	Light Green	4.6
Dark Green	Olive Drab Shadow	3.0
Dark Grey	German Gray Highlight 1	2.6
Desert Tan	Cement Gray	3.4
Desert Yellow	Dark Yellow Highlight 1	3.9
Desert Yellow	Red Gold	3.4
Duck Egg Blue	MS Titans Blue 2	3.5
Emerald Green	Green Fs34227	4.7
Extra Dark Sea Grey	Gray Fs36270	4.7
Fire Orange	Clear Red	1.4
Flesh	Clear Pale Brown	4.9
Fluorescent Signal Green	Yellow Green	7.1
French Blue	MS White	1.4
German Camouflage Red	Lederbraun	6.6
Gloss Purple	Jasdf Deep Ocean Blue	10.1
Gloss Varnish	Chalky White	0.0
Gold	Gold	2.4
Gold	Cream Yellow	3.1
Grass Green	Zinc-chromate Type I Fs34151	4.5
Grass Green	Chrome Green	4.9
Grey	IJN Hull Color/Maizuru	2.4
Gun Metal	Olive Drab Shadow	5.2
Gunmetal	MS Red	2.5
Insignia Red	Metallic Red	0.4
Insignia Yellow	RX-78 Red	1.1
Italian Racing Red	Character Red	1.5
Ivory	Gray Fs36622	6.6
Khaki	Japanese Khaki	9.7
Khaki Drill	Light Brown	4.7
Leather	Brass	6.9
Lemon	Chiara Yellow	1.5
Light Grey	Shine Silver	1.0
Light Olive	Earth Green	3.9
Lime	IJN Type22 Camoflage Color	9.4
Lime Green	Duck Egg Green	4.8
Magenta	Magenta	9.4
Matt Olive Drab	Russian Green "4bo" 1947	5.4
Matt Tank Grey	Blue Fs15044 A	3.3
Mediterranean Blue	Jasdf Shallow Ocean Blue	6.5
Medium Sea Grey	IJN Hull Color/Maizuru	2.3
Middle Blue	RX-78 White	4.4
Midnight Blue	Phthalo Cyanine Blue	1.6
Midnight Blue	Phthalo Cyanine Blue	2.6
Natural Wood	Rlm79 Sand Yellow	4.6
Oak	Clear Pale Orange	6.8
Ocean Grey	Dark Seagray	3.2
Olive Drab	Khaki	4.2
Olive Green	Earth Green	3.1
Orange	Clear Orange	1.0
Orange	Clear Orange	3.2
Pastel Blue	Moonstone Pearl	2.2
Pastel Green	Duck Egg Green	3.7
Pastel Violet	Amethyst Purple	10.9
Pink	Character Flesh (2)	4.9
Primer	JMSDF 2705 Dark Gray N4	2.1
Primer	RLM75 Gray Violet	4.1
Purple	MS Titans Blue 1	9.6
RAF Blue	Ice Silver	4.2
Red	Flat Red	1.6
Red	Deep Clear Red	3.8
Rust	Copper	6.4
Sand	Dark Yellow Highlight 1	4.2
Sand	Dark Yellow Highlight 1	5.7
Satin Varnish	Chalky White	0.0
Scarlet	Red (IJNircraftmarking)	1.9
Sea Grey	Rlm71 Dark Green	3.1
Sea Grey	Dark Seagray Bs381c 638	4.0
Service Brown	Smoke Gray	2.0
Signal Red	Brown	2.7
Silver	Silver	0.8
Silver	Shine Silver	0.8
Tan	Brass	6.2
Tank Grey	Gray Fs36081	1.6
Trainer Yellow	MS Blue	1.5
US Ghost Grey	IJN Gray (Mitsubishi)	1.6
US Light Green	Chrome Green	2.9
US Tan	Rough Sand	4.8
WWI Blue	Azure Blue	3.2
White	Chalky White	0.0
White	Chalky White	0.0
White	Chalky White	0.0
White Gloss	Plate Silver Next	2.3
White Matt	MS Red	0.0
Yellow	Clear Yellow	1.2
Yellow	Clear Yellow	1.0

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