Humbrol to Tamiya paint conversion chart

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

70 of the 115 Humbrol colours below have an equivalent in Tamiya within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 21 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 4.2. The 45 gaps are not spread evenly: 14 of them are yellows, so that is the corner of the Humbrol range Tamiya does not answer.

		ΔE
Aluminium	Mica silver	2.5
Aluminium	Bare-metal silver	3.4
Antique Bronze	Dark copper	3.1
Army Green	Field grey	8.5
Beige Green	Light gray	6.5
Black	Black	0.0
Black	Black	0.0
Black	Black	4.0
Black Gloss	Black	0.0
Black Matt	NATO black	2.6
Black Satin	NATO black	4.4
Blue	Blue	2.5
Brass	Desert yellow	4.3
Brass Metallic	Pure orange	4.7
Bright Green	Candy lime green	1.6
Bronze Metallic	Copper	5.4
Brown	Linoleum deck brown	5.2
Brunswick Green	Olive green	2.6
Brunswick Green	Dark green	2.1
Chocolate	Flat earth	3.2
Chrome Silver	Racing white	2.2
Chrome Silver	Racing white	3.9
Copper	Metallic brown	4.8
Cream	Titanium gold	5.3
Crimson	Bronze	9.4
Dark Brown	Light gray	7.1
Dark Camouflage Grey Satin	Light gun metal	5.7
Dark Earth	Brown (JGSDF)	6.6
Dark Green	Dark green (Luftwaffe)	3.8
Dark Green	NATO green	7.2
Dark Green	NATO green	7.6
Dark Green	NATO black	5.8
Dark Grey	Dark grey	3.0
Desert Tan	Wooden deck tan	2.9
Desert Yellow	Desert yellow	4.0
Desert Yellow	Wooden deck tan	5.3
Duck Egg Blue	Light gray (IJN)	8.1
Emerald Green	Light green (Luftwaffe)	6.5
Extra Dark Sea Grey	Metallic gray	4.0
Fire Orange	Metallic red	0.8
Flesh	Brilliant orange	7.8
Fluorescent Signal Green	Candy lime green	1.6
French Blue	Pearl blue	3.2
German Camouflage Red	Linoleum deck brown	5.3
Gloss Purple	Royal blue	10.9
Gloss Varnish	Acrylic thinner	0.0
Gold	Gold	4.6
Gold	Gold	4.4
Grass Green	Khaki	6.8
Grass Green	Khaki	8.2
Grey	IJN gray (Kure Arsenal)	6.9
Gun Metal	Khaki drab	8.4
Gunmetal	NATO black	2.4
Insignia Red	Mica red	4.9
Insignia Yellow	Camel yellow	1.7
Italian Racing Red	Mica red	1.8
Ivory	Pearl clear	7.0
Khaki	Brown (JGSDF)	8.3
Khaki Drill	Tan	8.3
Leather	Flat earth	6.6
Lemon	Flat yellow	1.2
Light Grey	Flat aluminum	1.4
Light Olive	Brown (JGSDF)	6.4
Lime	Light green	5.0
Lime Green	J.A. grey	3.8
Magenta	Clear red	9.5
Matt Olive Drab	Olive drab 2	5.0
Matt Tank Grey	Field blue	3.6
Mediterranean Blue	French blue	3.6
Medium Sea Grey	Sky grey	6.0
Middle Blue	Sky blue	2.5
Midnight Blue	Royal blue	2.3
Midnight Blue	Royal blue	3.1
Natural Wood	Dark copper	3.0
Oak	Metallic gold	6.0
Ocean Grey	Khaki	8.2
Olive Drab	Olive drab	4.8
Olive Green	Brown (JGSDF)	4.2
Orange	Orange	5.0
Orange	Clear orange	5.8
Pastel Blue	Mica silver	9.7
Pastel Green	J.A. grey	5.8
Pastel Violet	Pearl light red	11.8
Pink	Pink	8.1
Primer	Gun metal	2.8
Primer	Medium blue	6.0
Purple	Mixing blue	9.9
RAF Blue	IJN gray<br>(Yokosuka Arsenal)	8.6
Red	Metallic red	2.8
Red	Flat red	3.5
Rust	Dark copper	9.1
Sand	Desert yellow	1.2
Sand	Desert yellow	4.1
Satin Varnish	Acrylic thinner	0.0
Scarlet	Mica red	3.0
Sea Grey	Gun metal	4.4
Sea Grey	Gun metal	2.7
Service Brown	Dark iron	5.3
Signal Red	Pure metallic red	2.6
Silver	Silver	1.1
Silver	Flat aluminum	1.6
Tan	Copper	7.0
Tank Grey	Sea blue	3.4
Trainer Yellow	Chrome yellow	3.7
US Ghost Grey	Sky grey	3.5
US Light Green	Olive drab 2	5.6
US Tan	Yellow-brown (DAK 1941)	4.3
WWI Blue	Blue violet	4.8
White	Acrylic thinner	0.0
White	Acrylic thinner	0.0
White	Acrylic thinner	0.0
White Gloss	Racing white	2.8
White Matt	Black	0.3
Yellow	Flat yellow	1.6
Yellow	Mixing yellow	1.3

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