Paint Equivalents

Humbrol to Scale75 paint conversion chart

Every Humbrol paint with its closest Scale75 equivalent, matched by CIEDE2000. 115 rows, sorted by name.

101 of the 115 Humbrol colours below have an equivalent in Scale75 within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 34 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 3.0. The 14 gaps are not spread evenly: 4 of them are yellows, so that is the corner of the Humbrol range Scale75 does not answer.

HumbrolScale75ΔE
Aluminium Primer Surface White 0.6
Aluminium Primer Surface White 2.5
Antique Bronze Orange Leather 2.3
Army Green Dust In Summertime 3.3
Beige Green Cremeweiss 7.9
Black Dark Stains 0.0
Black Dark Stains 0.0
Black Black Ink 2.6
Black Gloss Dark Stains 0.0
Black Matt Decay Black 1.8
Black Satin Inktense Black 3.1
Blue Light Ultramarine 2.0
Brass Dwarven Gold 2.3
Brass Metallic Dwarven Gold 4.1
Bright Green Spring Green 3.5
Bronze Metallic Chink Orange 3.8
Brown Old Copper 5.5
Brunswick Green Sap Green 5.0
Brunswick Green Sap Green 2.5
Chocolate Ss Camo Gray Brown 3.4
Chrome Silver White Metal 2.8
Chrome Silver White Metal 4.1
Copper Rotbraun 44 4.8
Cream Savage Beige 2.1
Crimson Mayhem Red 2.2
Dark Brown Grau 1.5
Dark Camouflage Grey Satin Brown Gray 2.9
Dark Earth Walnut 2.3
Dark Green Ss Camo Dark Green 2.9
Dark Green Boreal Green 6.5
Dark Green Boreal Green 6.6
Dark Green Shadow Black 3.2
Dark Grey Anthartic Grey 2.9
Desert Tan Thar Brown 2.8
Desert Yellow Iroko 4.8
Desert Yellow Iroko 3.4
Duck Egg Blue Sky Blue 8.0
Emerald Green Green Moss 3.6
Extra Dark Sea Grey Violet Grey 2.2
Fire Orange Red Label 1.0
Flesh Drain Life 2.8
Fluorescent Signal Green Spring Green 3.5
French Blue Replenish Blue 1.1
German Camouflage Red Dark Earth 2.2
Gloss Purple Violet Blue 6.4
Gloss Varnish Medium Wet 0.0
Gold Naples Yellow 2.1
Gold Naples Yellow 1.7
Grass Green Dust In Summertime 4.6
Grass Green Dust In Summertime 4.2
Grey Heavy Metal 1.7
Gun Metal Ss Camo Top Shadows 3.7
Gunmetal Inktense Black 0.3
Insignia Red Inktense Red 1.9
Insignia Yellow Rotten Pus 0.5
Italian Racing Red Antares Red 0.9
Ivory Cremeweiss 5.2
Khaki Cokum Copper 3.1
Khaki Drill Amber Alchemy 3.4
Leather Kalahari Orange 4.7
Lemon Primary Yellow 3.3
Light Grey Speed Metal 1.1
Light Olive Olive Green 4.4
Lime Goblin Flesh 4.4
Lime Green Undead Flesh 9.6
Magenta Magenta 7.0
Matt Olive Drab Ss Camo Medium Green 2.0
Matt Tank Grey Panzer Grey 3.2
Mediterranean Blue Sky Blue 4.8
Medium Sea Grey Heavy Metal 3.3
Middle Blue Sky Blue 2.5
Midnight Blue Inktense Blue 3.9
Midnight Blue Navy Blue 3.2
Natural Wood Orange Leather 3.6
Oak Phoenix Egg 3.7
Ocean Grey Dust In Summertime 1.3
Olive Drab Ss Camo Medium Green 1.0
Olive Green Gobi Brown 3.7
Orange Orange 0.6
Orange Ragweed Orange 1.5
Pastel Blue Primer Surface White 8.4
Pastel Green Acid Green 10.3
Pastel Violet Kunzite Alchemy 4.6
Pink Tourmaline Alchemy 2.5
Primer Dunkelgrau Gray 3.0
Primer Field Grey 2 6.2
Purple Violet 3.2
RAF Blue Cobalt Violet Grey 4.5
Red Red Label 2.3
Red Primary Red 1.9
Rust Pink Flesh 5.3
Sand Dwarven Gold 4.9
Sand Dwarven Gold 4.5
Satin Varnish Medium Wet 0.0
Scarlet Health Red 2.2
Sea Grey Dunkelgrau Gray 4.4
Sea Grey Dunkelgrau Gray 4.4
Service Brown Earth Green 3.3
Signal Red Red Label 2.8
Silver Odorless Thinner 1.1
Silver Speed Metal 0.9
Tan Chink Orange 5.8
Tank Grey Despair Green 4.5
Trainer Yellow Yellow Code 3.4
US Ghost Grey Artic Blue 3.5
US Light Green Ardenes Green 1.6
US Tan Blackert Brown 1.4
WWI Blue Mediterranean Blue 4.6
White Medium Wet 0.0
White Medium Wet 0.0
White Medium Wet 0.0
White Gloss Fuel And Grease 1.1
White Matt Eclipse Grey 1.3
Yellow Sulfur Yellow 2.3
Yellow Sulfur Yellow 2.0