Humbrol to Vallejo paint conversion chart

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

111 of the 115 Humbrol colours below have an equivalent in Vallejo within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 46 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 2.4.

		ΔE
Aluminium	Ghost Grey	2.1
Aluminium	Ghost Grey	0.7
Antique Bronze	Burned Flesh	0.5
Army Green	Olive Green	2.4
Beige Green	Spring Green	2.2
Black	Black	0.0
Black	Black	0.0
Black	Black Wash	3.0
Black Gloss	Black	0.0
Black Matt	Petrol Spills	1.7
Black Satin	Black Lotus	2.3
Blue	Legacy Blue	2.0
Brass	Yellow Ochre	1.4
Brass Metallic	Filthy Brown	1.4
Bright Green	Fluorescent Green	3.8
Bronze Metallic	Flesh Base	4.1
Brown	Red Leather	3.4
Brunswick Green	Angel Green	5.5
Brunswick Green	Olive Green	5.4
Chocolate	Beasty Brown	1.3
Chrome Silver	Chainmail	1.9
Chrome Silver	Chainmail	2.9
Copper	Flesh Base	1.2
Cream	Pale Yellow	2.6
Crimson	Carmine Red	2.1
Dark Brown	Cream White	2.2
Dark Camouflage Grey Satin	IDF Sinai Grey 82	2.6
Dark Earth	New Wood	2.9
Dark Green	Angel Green	2.9
Dark Green	Sick Green	1.2
Dark Green	Sick Green	1.3
Dark Green	Black Thick Mud	6.4
Dark Grey	AMT-12 Dark Grey	2.1
Desert Tan	Skeleton Bone	2.0
Desert Yellow	Antique Ochre	4.0
Desert Yellow	Iraqi Sand	3.3
Duck Egg Blue	Metallic Green	2.4
Emerald Green	Forest Green	2.4
Extra Dark Sea Grey	Sea Grey	2.5
Fire Orange	Calico Red	0.7
Flesh	Orange Pearl	3.0
Fluorescent Signal Green	Fluorescent Green	3.8
French Blue	Sapphire Blue	1.9
German Camouflage Red	Brown Engine Soot (Matt)	1.7
Gloss Purple	Heavy Violet	3.2
Gloss Varnish	Arctic White	0.0
Gold	Polished Gold	2.4
Gold	Gold	1.9
Grass Green	Goblin Green	1.3
Grass Green	Olive Green	1.4
Grey	Plate Mail Metal	1.5
Gun Metal	Extra Dark Green	3.1
Gunmetal	Black Thick Mud	1.3
Insignia Red	Bloody Red	1.7
Insignia Yellow	Dark Yellow	1.2
Italian Racing Red	Magenta	0.7
Ivory	Desert Sand	2.8
Khaki	Gold	2.9
Khaki Drill	Camouflage Brown	2.6
Leather	Copper	3.8
Lemon	Fluorescent Yellow	2.6
Light Grey	Gunmetal	1.8
Light Olive	AMT-4 Camouflage Green	1.9
Lime	Fluorescent Green	3.6
Lime Green	Eau de Nil “Duck Egg Green”	3.6
Magenta	Fluorescent Magenta	4.8
Matt Olive Drab	Cayman Green	2.3
Matt Tank Grey	Charcoal Grey	2.6
Mediterranean Blue	Russian AF Blue	3.0
Medium Sea Grey	Pale Blue Grey	1.9
Middle Blue	Deep Blue	2.9
Midnight Blue	Dark Blue	1.4
Midnight Blue	Dark Blue	2.0
Natural Wood	Bright Bronze	2.4
Oak	Glorious Gold	3.1
Ocean Grey	Olive Green	3.9
Olive Drab	Plague Green	3.0
Olive Green	Khaki	0.9
Orange	Transparent Orange	1.6
Orange	Transparent Orange	2.3
Pastel Blue	Baby Blue	2.7
Pastel Green	Spring Green	6.3
Pastel Violet	Lila	3.6
Pink	Spice Pink	3.0
Primer	Dark Grey Green	2.1
Primer	USAF Green	3.0
Purple	Navy Blue	3.2
RAF Blue	Williamsburg Blue	4.7
Red	Bloody Red	1.7
Red	Inferno Red	2.4
Rust	Copper	4.2
Sand	Dark Flesh	2.7
Sand	Dark Flesh	3.2
Satin Varnish	Arctic White	0.0
Scarlet	Naphthol Red	2.4
Sea Grey	US Forest Green	2.6
Sea Grey	Dark Grey Green	1.9
Service Brown	Olive Brown	2.5
Signal Red	Bloody Red	2.5
Silver	Dark Gunmetal	0.0
Silver	Gunmetal	1.8
Tan	Flesh Base	2.7
Tank Grey	Charcoal Grey	2.4
Trainer Yellow	Basic Yellow	1.8
US Ghost Grey	Wolf Grey	3.0
US Light Green	Commando Green	0.5
US Tan	Raw Sienna	3.1
WWI Blue	Salem Blue	3.9
White	Arctic White	0.0
White	Arctic White	0.0
White	Arctic White	0.0
White Gloss	Rotten White	1.3
White Matt	Black	0.3
Yellow	Lemon Yellow	4.3
Yellow	Light Yellow	4.1

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