Paint Equivalents

Humbrol to P3 paint conversion chart

Every Humbrol paint with its closest P3 equivalent, matched by CIEDE2000. 115 rows, sorted by name.

59 of the 115 Humbrol colours below have an equivalent in P3 within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 12 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 5.0. The 56 gaps are not spread evenly: 12 of them are oranges, so that is the corner of the Humbrol range P3 does not answer.

HumbrolP3ΔE
Aluminium Cold Steel 3.0
Aluminium Cold Steel 2.7
Antique Bronze Idrian Flesh 3.2
Army Green Bastion Grey 6.8
Beige Green Thrall Flesh 4.6
Black Thamar Black 0.0
Black Thamar Black 0.0
Black Thamar Black 4.5
Black Gloss Thamar Black 0.0
Black Matt Asheth Grey 3.2
Black Satin Asheth Grey 1.4
Blue Exile Blue 4.3
Brass Blazing Ink 6.9
Brass Metallic Heartfire 7.7
Bright Green Necrotite Green 7.7
Bronze Metallic Idrian Flesh 7.2
Brown Tharn Flesh 5.3
Brunswick Green Cryx Bane Base 7.0
Brunswick Green Eldritch Green 9.0
Chocolate Tharn Flesh 3.9
Chrome Silver Frostbite 2.5
Chrome Silver Frostbite 1.2
Copper Bloodstone 4.3
Cream Rhulic Gold 7.1
Crimson Broken Brick 6.2
Dark Brown Ryn Flesh 2.6
Dark Camouflage Grey Satin Drake Grey 5.3
Dark Earth Bogrin Brown 6.1
Dark Green Cryx Bane Base 5.0
Dark Green Gnarls Green 5.0
Dark Green Gnarls Green 5.5
Dark Green Blindwater Green 4.8
Dark Grey Greatcoat Grey 7.2
Desert Tan Devout White 4.9
Desert Yellow Rucksack Tan 6.4
Desert Yellow Meaty Ochre 5.4
Duck Egg Blue Underbelly Blue 8.2
Emerald Green Gnarls Green 9.3
Extra Dark Sea Grey Pig Iron 6.5
Fire Orange Ember Orange 4.2
Flesh Khador Red Highlight 3.8
Fluorescent Signal Green Necrotite Green 7.7
French Blue Cygnar Blue Base 2.0
German Camouflage Red Basilisk Brown 5.7
Gloss Purple Royal Violet 6.1
Gloss Varnish Morrow White 1.7
Gold Moldy Ochre 4.1
Gold Moldy Ochre 3.6
Grass Green Battledress Green 6.3
Grass Green Thornwood Green 6.6
Grey Ironhull Grey 3.6
Gun Metal Blindwater Green 3.3
Gunmetal Asheth Grey 3.5
Insignia Red Skorne Red 0.4
Insignia Yellow Heartfire 5.7
Italian Racing Red Skorne Red 3.7
Ivory Brass Balls 2.1
Khaki Bloodtracker Brown 4.3
Khaki Drill Kossite Flesh Wash 3.4
Leather Bloodstone 3.9
Lemon Cygnus Yellow 2.0
Light Grey Quick Silver 3.3
Light Olive Orgoth Bronze 2.6
Lime Wurm Green 4.9
Lime Green Thrall Flesh 3.3
Magenta Troll Tongue 11.2
Matt Olive Drab Battle Dress Green 6.6
Matt Tank Grey Gravedigger Denim 9.2
Mediterranean Blue Trollblood Base 8.3
Medium Sea Grey Ironhull Grey 4.5
Middle Blue Voltaic Blue 10.1
Midnight Blue Exile Blue 2.2
Midnight Blue Exile Blue 1.0
Natural Wood Bogrin Brown 3.7
Oak Sickly Skin 6.6
Ocean Grey Bastion Grey 5.4
Olive Drab Battle Dress Green 8.6
Olive Green Orgoth Bronze 3.2
Orange Inferno Orange 6.7
Orange Inferno Orange 5.1
Pastel Blue Quick Silver 8.8
Pastel Green Thrall Flesh 5.5
Pastel Violet Carnal Pink 15.5
Pink Carnal Pink 14.2
Primer Gravedigger Denim 4.2
Primer Pyg Grey 5.2
Purple Bad Bruise 10.4
RAF Blue Blue Ink 12.1
Red Ember Orange 6.7
Red Ember Orange 6.0
Rust Khardic Flesh 7.8
Sand Blazing Ink 5.2
Sand Molten Bronze 5.1
Satin Varnish Morrow White 1.7
Scarlet Skorne Red 3.6
Sea Grey Boiler Black 2.5
Sea Grey Gravedigger Denim 2.9
Service Brown Battlefield Brown 5.5
Signal Red Ember Orange 5.9
Silver Quick Silver 3.5
Silver Quick Silver 3.1
Tan Bloodstone 6.2
Tank Grey Gravedigger Denim 10.6
Trainer Yellow Moldy Ochre 5.7
US Ghost Grey Cold Steel 4.4
US Light Green Mage Hunter Green 6.4
US Tan Lyossan Flesh 6.1
WWI Blue Cygnar Blue Highlight 6.9
White Morrow White 1.7
White Morrow White 1.7
White Morrow White 1.7
White Gloss Morrow White 2.8
White Matt Asheth Grey 5.0
Yellow Sulfuric Yellow 3.4
Yellow Sulfuric Yellow 3.2