Paint Equivalents

Humbrol to Mr. Paint paint conversion chart

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

87 of the 115 Humbrol colours below have an equivalent in Mr. Paint within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 25 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 3.5. The 28 gaps are not spread evenly: 7 of them are yellows, so that is the corner of the Humbrol range Mr. Paint does not answer.

HumbrolMr. PaintΔE
Aluminium Light Gray 3.2
Aluminium Light Gray 0.8
Antique Bronze Rosso Mimetico 2.3
Army Green Verde Mimetico 2.3
Beige Green Insignia White Ana 601 9.2
Black Black 0.0
Black Black 0.0
Black Dark Aluminium 2.7
Black Gloss Black 0.0
Black Matt Black 2.3
Black Satin Chipping Dark Brown Matt 0.9
Blue Signal Blue RAL 5005 3.6
Brass Giallo Cromo 2.4
Brass Metallic Giallo Cromo 1.1
Bright Green Porsche Lizard Green 5.1
Bronze Metallic Medium Rust 3.1
Brown Dark Brown Čsn 2430/Čsn 1010 2.8
Brunswick Green IJAAF 27 Ao Midori Iro (Blue Green, "Jungle Green") 4.9
Brunswick Green Dark Green 5.8
Chocolate Special Brown FS30140 1.6
Chrome Silver Chrome 3.9
Chrome Silver Chrome 4.8
Copper Medium Rust 7.0
Cream Bianco Avorio 5.0
Crimson Rosso Corsa Ferrari No.300 3.0
Dark Brown Cdl Bleached 4.2
Dark Camouflage Grey Satin Dark Yellow RAL 7028 Var. 1 7.1
Dark Earth Tan 507m 2.3
Dark Green Nato Green 3.6
Dark Green RLM 25 Hellgrun 4.2
Dark Green RLM 25 Hellgrun 3.8
Dark Green Amt-6 Black 5.7
Dark Grey Nobels Dark Tarmac No.4 2.7
Desert Tan Cdl Variant 1 4.3
Desert Yellow Bsc No.61 3.3
Desert Yellow Fine Surface Primer-sand Yellow 3.9
Duck Egg Blue Bianco Neve 7.7
Emerald Green Porsche Signal Green 3.2
Extra Dark Sea Grey Dark Camouflge Grey Bs629 5.6
Fire Orange Red Clear 3.9
Flesh Orange RAL 2017 5.0
Fluorescent Signal Green Porsche Lizard Green 5.1
French Blue Signal Blue RAL 5005 2.8
German Camouflage Red Copper 2.5
Gloss Purple Burnt Metal Violet 3.0
Gloss Varnish Fine Surface Primer-white 0.0
Gold Traffic Yellow RAL 1023 4.1
Gold Traffic Yellow RAL 1023 4.0
Grass Green Verde Mimetico 3.3
Grass Green Verde Mimetico 1.9
Grey Light Grey FS36373 2.2
Gun Metal Nato Green 3.5
Gunmetal Chipping Dark Brown Matt 2.9
Insignia Red Rosso 1.9
Insignia Yellow Giallo Cromo 2.8
Italian Racing Red A Ii Kr Red 1.3
Ivory U.S. Navy White FS17875 7.9
Khaki Green Brown RAL 8000 4.9
Khaki Drill Us Desert Sand FS30279 3.8
Leather Red Rust 6.4
Lemon Sulfur Yellow RAL 1016 2.6
Light Grey Light Gray 5.3
Light Olive Olive Drab Ana 613 1.6
Lime Grabber Lime - Ford Mustang 5.0
Lime Green Grünblau 6.6
Magenta Signal Viollet RAL 4008 12.7
Matt Olive Drab Sac Bomber Green FS34127 2.2
Matt Tank Grey Raf Blue-grey Bs633 4.3
Mediterranean Blue Insignia Blue 6.0
Medium Sea Grey Light Grey FS36373 2.3
Middle Blue Blue SU-27 3.7
Midnight Blue Morning Blue 6.2
Midnight Blue Blue Metallic For Subaru Brz 5.5
Natural Wood Rosso Mimetico 0.7
Oak Cdl Bleached 5.5
Ocean Grey Verde Mimetico 3.9
Olive Drab Soviet Protective Green KHV-518 2.8
Olive Green 4bo - 1947 Russian Green 1.5
Orange Orange Ladders For Russian Aircraft 2.4
Orange Orange Ladders For Russian Aircraft 1.9
Pastel Blue Blue - Gray 7.7
Pastel Green Grünblau 9.9
Pastel Violet Russian Cockpit Sealant 16.3
Pink Russian Cockpit Sealant 7.5
Primer Dark Gunship Grey FS36081 1.2
Primer Light Slate Grey 3.7
Purple Porsche Ultra Violet 7.0
RAF Blue Dark Camouflge Grey Bs629 8.8
Red A Ii Kr Red 2.7
Red Red Clear 1.9
Rust Red-brown Clear 4.9
Sand Bsc No.61 3.6
Sand Bsc No.61 4.4
Satin Varnish Fine Surface Primer-white 0.0
Scarlet RLM 23 1.6
Sea Grey Steel 0.6
Sea Grey Dark Gunship Grey FS36081 1.9
Service Brown Bruno Mimetico 3.5
Signal Red Insignia Red Us Navy Training And Arctic Camo 3.1
Silver Bianco Neve 5.5
Silver Light Gray 5.4
Tan Medium Rust 4.4
Tank Grey IJAAF 3 Hai Ran Shoku (Cockpit Blue-gey) 2.3
Trainer Yellow Traffic Yellow RAL 1023 3.9
US Ghost Grey Blue - Gray 3.6
US Light Green Verde Mimetico 3.9
US Tan RLM 79 Variant 1 3.3
WWI Blue Azure Blue Ana 609 8.0
White Fine Surface Primer-white 0.0
White Fine Surface Primer-white 0.0
White Fine Surface Primer-white 0.0
White Gloss Chrome 2.5
White Matt Exhaust Metal 1.5
Yellow Sulfur Yellow RAL 1016 2.1
Yellow Sulfur Yellow RAL 1016 2.2

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