Humbrol to Warcolours paint conversion chart

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

57 of the 115 Humbrol colours below have an equivalent in Warcolours within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 15 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 5.0. The 58 gaps are not spread evenly: 15 of them are yellows, so that is the corner of the Humbrol range Warcolours does not answer.

		ΔE
Aluminium	Metallic White	4.2
Aluminium	Metallic White	5.4
Antique Bronze	Flesh 5	8.6
Army Green	Transparent Olive	10.5
Beige Green	Ochre 1	6.6
Black	Black	0.0
Black	Black	0.0
Black	Cool Grey 5	3.1
Black Gloss	Black	0.0
Black Matt	Warm Grey 5	2.5
Black Satin	Transparent Black	3.9
Blue	Blue 4	6.8
Brass	Raw Sienna	4.9
Brass Metallic	Ochre 3	4.6
Bright Green	One-coat Green	5.8
Bronze Metallic	Metallic Copper	8.6
Brown	Metallic Dark Copper	7.5
Brunswick Green	Emerald 5	10.0
Brunswick Green	Emerald 5	8.7
Chocolate	Brown 4	8.1
Chrome Silver	Transparent White	2.4
Chrome Silver	Transparent White	3.8
Copper	Metallic Copper	5.6
Cream	Metallic Pale Gold	4.0
Crimson	Red 4	3.2
Dark Brown	Transparent White	9.5
Dark Camouflage Grey Satin	Transparent Cool Grey	5.6
Dark Earth	Flesh 5	9.4
Dark Green	Transparent Black	12.1
Dark Green	Emerald 4	4.2
Dark Green	Emerald 4	4.1
Dark Green	Warm Grey 5	4.5
Dark Grey	Cool Grey 4	5.0
Desert Tan	Warm Grey 2	6.8
Desert Yellow	Ochre 4	5.5
Desert Yellow	Metallic Lemon	5.8
Duck Egg Blue	Transparent White	10.5
Emerald Green	Emerald 4	6.8
Extra Dark Sea Grey	Metallic Pewter	5.3
Fire Orange	One-coat Red	2.1
Flesh	Orange 3	5.9
Fluorescent Signal Green	One-coat Green	5.8
French Blue	Blue 4	3.5
German Camouflage Red	Metallic Dark Copper	6.6
Gloss Purple	Brown 5	11.7
Gloss Varnish	White	0.0
Gold	Metallic Bright Gold	2.4
Gold	Metallic Bright Gold	3.6
Grass Green	Olive 4	10.2
Grass Green	Olive 4	11.1
Grey	Metallic Silver	4.0
Gun Metal	Transparent Black	8.0
Gunmetal	Transparent Black	2.0
Insignia Red	Red 3	2.4
Insignia Yellow	Fluorescent Orange	2.8
Italian Racing Red	Red 2	1.0
Ivory	Flesh 1	3.5
Khaki	Ochre 5	9.5
Khaki Drill	Transparent Flesh	6.2
Leather	Metallic Copper	3.6
Lemon	One-coat Yellow	3.8
Light Grey	Metallic White	2.0
Light Olive	Warm Grey 3	11.4
Lime	Olive 3	6.2
Lime Green	Ochre 1	8.6
Magenta	One-coat Purple	5.1
Matt Olive Drab	Olive 5	6.5
Matt Tank Grey	Metallic Black	7.3
Mediterranean Blue	Blue 2	2.3
Medium Sea Grey	Cool Grey 2	4.8
Middle Blue	Transparent Blue	4.7
Midnight Blue	Blue 5	5.1
Midnight Blue	Blue 5	5.4
Natural Wood	Flesh 5	8.0
Oak	Flesh 2	2.8
Ocean Grey	Transparent Olive	10.4
Olive Drab	Olive 5	6.8
Olive Green	Warm Grey 3	12.0
Orange	Orange	4.4
Orange	Orange	4.8
Pastel Blue	Blue Grey 1	3.0
Pastel Green	Ochre 1	9.4
Pastel Violet	Purple 1	10.2
Pink	Pink 1	9.2
Primer	Cool Grey 4	5.5
Primer	Cool Grey 4	8.8
Purple	Violet 5	5.9
RAF Blue	Blue Grey 4	5.9
Red	Red 1	1.6
Red	Red 1	1.9
Rust	Transparent Brown	3.6
Sand	Ochre 3	4.1
Sand	Metallic Lemon	4.8
Satin Varnish	White	0.0
Scarlet	Red 2	3.7
Sea Grey	Cool Grey 4	5.4
Sea Grey	Cool Grey 4	4.9
Service Brown	Brown 4	9.3
Signal Red	One-coat Red	2.4
Silver	Metallic White	4.0
Silver	Metallic White	2.2
Tan	Metallic Copper	6.4
Tank Grey	Blue Grey 5	6.5
Trainer Yellow	Yellow 4	1.1
US Ghost Grey	Cool Grey 1	8.2
US Light Green	Olive 4	11.9
US Tan	Flesh 5	5.7
WWI Blue	Blue Grey 3	4.9
White	White	0.0
White	White	0.0
White	White	0.0
White Gloss	Transparent White	2.0
White Matt	Metallic Black	1.6
Yellow	Yellow 3	2.9
Yellow	Yellow 3	2.6

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