Paint Equivalents

Mission Models to Citadel paint conversion chart

Every Mission Models paint with its closest Citadel equivalent, matched by CIEDE2000. 201 rows, sorted by name.

148 of the 201 Mission Models colours below have an equivalent in Citadel 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 3.9. The 53 gaps are not spread evenly: 14 of them are yellows, so that is the corner of the Mission Models range Citadel does not answer.

Mission ModelsCitadelΔE
Aircraft Grey Gloss FS 16473 Nuln Oil Gloss 3.6
Aluminum Fortress Grey 1.7
Anthrazitgrau RAL 7016 (Anthracite Grey) Dryad Bark 5.0
Aotaki Blue Green Hawk Turquoise 5.3
Arcadian Blue (F 1965) Grey Knights Steel 3.0
Azure Blue RAF / FS 35231 Stormfang 10.4
Black Abaddon Black 0.0
Black Primer Abaddon Black 0.0
Blue Midnight Blue 1.8
Brass Karak Stone 2.4
Braunviolet RLM 81 Typhus Corrosion 0.9
Bright Blue (Mecha etc) Enchanted Blue 1.2
British Light Silver Grey RAL 7001 Ironbreaker 4.9
British Light Stone RAL 61 Golden Griffon 5.2
British Portland Stone RAL 64 Typhon Ash 5.2
British Sand Yellow Modern AFV Relictor Gold 5.1
British Slate Grey 34 Drakenhof Nightshade 8.0
Bronze Green British AFV Dark Reaper 7.1
Brown Stirland Mud 7.0
Chrome Nuln Oil Gloss 2.2
Clear Primer (Transparent) Corax White 0.0
Cold Rolled Steel Eshin Grey 2.7
Concrete 1 Ushabti Bone 2.5
Copper Dwarf Bronze 1.5
Coral (CH 1955/626) Martian Ironcrust 4.7
Crocus Yellow Wraithbone 5.6
Dark Aluminum Boltgun Metal 1.5
Dark Ghost Grey FS 36320 Warpfiend Grey 5.1
Dark Grey RLM 66 German WWII Late War Cockpits, etc Sylvaneth Bark 7.7
Dark Gull Grey FS 36231 Codex Grey 4.3
Dark Rust 1 Guilliman Flesh 1.0
Dark Tan FS 30219 Gorthor Brown 3.7
Dunkelbraun RAL 7017 Steel Legion Drab 1.9
Dunkelgelb RAL 7028 Morghast Bone 4.4
Dunkelgelb Late 1944 RAL 7028 Golden Griffon 5.2
Dunkelgrün RLM 71 Castellan Green 4.8
Dunkelgrün RLM 83 Death Guard Green 3.8
Duraluminum Astrogranite 4.2
Earth Red Brown Merdec FS 30117 Skrag Brown 5.4
Earth Yellow Tan Merdec FS 30257 Shining Gold 1.4
Extra Dark Sea Grey BS381 RAF The Fang 5.9
Farm Tractor Green (Bright Green) Warpstone Glow 5.0
Farm Tractor Yellow Phalanx Yellow 1.6
French Blue (Cobalt Blue) Space Wolves Grey 5.3
Gelb (Yellow) RLM 04 German WWII Golden Yellow 1.4
Gelbbraun RAL 8020 Kislev Flesh 4.1
Gelbolive RAL 6014 Steel Legion Drab 3.4
German Field Grey 6006 Knarloc Green 8.7
German WWII Elfenbein Interior White Wraithbone 4.8
Gloss Black Base for Chrome Abaddon Black 0.0
Gloss Grey USN FS 16081 Akhelian Green 4.4
Gloss Sea Blue FS 15042 Stegadon Scale Green 2.0
Gloss White Base for Chrome Corax White 0.0
Gold Shining Gold 3.4
Grau RLM 02 Rakarth Flesh 3.5
Graugrun Khakibrun RAL 7008 Aggaros Dunes 4.0
Graugrun RLM 74 Asurmen Blue Wash 3.6
Grauviolet RLM 75 Eshin Grey 1.4
Green Dark Angels Green 3.4
Green Zinc Chromate Elysian Green 4.0
Grey Blue Cockpit / Camo Modern Russian Jets Fenrisian Grey 3.5
Grey Primer Necron Compound 1.8
Grunbraun RAL 8000 Gretchin Green 1.3
Gun Metal Skavenblight Dinge 4.6
Gunship Grey FS 36118 Adeptus Battlegrey 5.0
Have Glass Grey FS36170 Iron Warriors 2.5
Haze Grey US Navy 5H Nuln Oil Gloss 5.7
Hellblau RLM 65 Astronomicon Grey 4.1
Hellblau RLM 78 Drakenhof Nightshade 3.3
Hellgrun RLM 82 Death Guard Green 3.4
High Low Visibility Grey FS (595) FS 36373 Drakenhof Nightshade 1.8
Hiway Yellow 1930 / 1990 Heavy Equipment Golden Yellow 0.5
Hull Red Anti Fouling Norfolk 65A Wazdakka Red 3.1
IDF Green Typhus Corrosion 5.4
IDF Sand Grey Version 1 Gretchin Green 3.5
IDF Sand Grey Version 2 Reikland Fleshshade 5.3
Insignia Red FS 31136 Angron Red Clear 2.5
Insignia White FS 17875 Corax White 0.0
Intermediate Blue FS 35164 The Fang 3.1
Iridescent Blue Altdorf Guard Blue 4.9
Iridescent Candy Red Blood Red 3.4
Iridescent Cherry Mechrite Red 4.6
Iridescent Duck Teal Temple Guard Blue 8.0
Iridescent Lemon Yellow Sunburst Yellow 2.7
Iridescent Plum Purple Kantor Blue 5.1
Iridescent Turquoise Ahriman Blue 1.1
J3 SP Lt Grey Japanese Zero (Amber) Rakarth Flesh 2.7
Japanese D1 Deep Green WWII (IJN) Dark Reaper 3.2
Japanese J3 Hai-Iro Lt Grey (Zero) Death Guard Green 8.0
Japanese M3 Mitsubishi Interior Green WWII Biel-Tan Green 5.8
Japanese Propeller Brown Bugman Glow 2.7
Japanese Q1 Anti Glare Blue Black Cowl WWII Black Legion 3.7
LRDG Pink Bleached Bone 4.3
Lavender Pallid Flesh 9.7
Lichtblau RLM 76 Deepkin Flesh 6.9
Light Blue (Mecha) Teclis Blue 3.2
Light Ghost Grey FS 36375 Codex Grey 2.0
Light Grey FS 36495 Nuln Oil Gloss 5.2
Light Gull Grey FS 16440 Valhallan Blizzard 1.6
Light Gull Grey FS 36440 Nuln Oil Gloss 5.2
Light Neutral Commando Khaki 3.2
Light Rust 1 Ryza Rust 4.4
Light Sea Grey FS 36307 Dawnstone 6.8
Lilac (Chrysler 1966) Tentacle Pink 4.5
Mahogany (Flight Decks, Tools) Bugman Glow 2.2
Medium Grey FS 35237 Codex Grey 7.2
Medium Grey FS 36270 Ironbreaker 3.6
Metallic Burnt Iron 1 Skavenblight Dinge 3.3
NATO Black Black Legion 3.3
NATO Brown Thondia Brown 4.5
NATO Green Loren Forest 4.0
Neutral Haze Grey US Navy (WWII/Post) Administratum Grey 6.5
New Construction Yellow (1990 to present) Shining Gold 3.5
Ocean Grey RAF WWII Mid/Late FS 36173 Dawnstone 4.4
Olive Drab / Dark Green 1968-74 FS 24087 Sylvaneth Bark 3.9
Olivegrun RAL 6003 Death Guard Green 1.5
Olivegrun RLM 80 (Trop) Death Guard Green 4.6
Orange Blazing Orange 3.9
Panzer Grey RAL 7021 Eshin Grey 4.0
Pearl Copper Tanned Flesh 2.9
Pearl Deep Black Black Legion 3.6
Pearl Deep Blue Altdorf Guard Blue 7.0
Pearl Deep Charcoal Black Legion 6.3
Pearl Deep Green Goblin Green 3.1
Pearl Kiwi Lime Scorpion Green 8.5
Pearl Red Mephiston Red 3.5
Pearl Root Beer Brown Catachan Fleshtone 4.9
Pearl Solid Gold Armageddon Dust 7.7
Pearl Starship White Valhallan Blizzard 2.8
Pearl Tropical Orange Jokaero Orange 4.3
Pearl Wild Berry Warlock Purple 5.1
Pink Pallid Flesh 6.4
Pink Primer Changeling Pink 7.3
Purple (Purple Violet) Genestealer Purple 7.7
RAF Dark Earth Gretchin Green 3.0
RAF Dark Green Knarloc Green 2.2
RAF High Speed Silver Munitorum Varnish 1.1
RAF Interior Green Nurgling Green 3.6
RAF Middle Stone Kommando Khaki 4.3
RAF underside Sky 610 Screaming Skull 4.4
Radome Tan FS 33613 Bleached Bone 4.3
Rail Tie Brown Graveyard Earth 2.4
Red Blood Red 4.4
Red Oxide German WWII RAL 3009 Verminlord Hide 4.3
Red Oxide Primer Verminlord Hide 4.3
Resedagrun RAL 6011 Death Guard Green 6.6
Rotbraun RAL 8017 Catachan Fleshtone 2.3
Rotbraun RAL 8012 Mournfang Brown 6.1
Russian 6k FS 30117 Vermin Fur 3.1
Russian Cockpit Emerald Green Warboss Green 2.4
Russian Dark Green 4BO FS 34079 Death Korps Drab 1.5
Russian Dark Olive 2 FS 34096 Death Guard Green 6.2
Russian Dark Olive FS 34102 Knarloc Green 2.7
Russian Dark Olive Faded 1 FS 34096 Death Guard Green 6.2
Russian Green Modern AFV Knarloc Green 4.5
Russian WWII 4B0 FS 34257 Camo Green 6.5
SAC Bomber Tan FS 34201 Runelord Brass 8.0
SAC bomber Green FS 34159 Dawnstone 4.5
Sand Merdec Gretchin Green 4.1
Sandgelb RLM 79 Flesh Wash 5.2
Sandgrau RAL 7027 Skeleton Horde 4.0
Schwarzgrun RLM 70 German WWII Catachan Green 7.5
Sea Grey Medium RAF WWII BS 637 Celestra Grey 4.8
Signalbraun RAL 8002 Calthan Brown 2.5
Silver Fortress Grey 3.4
Standard Rust Spiritstone Red 3.6
Surf Green (CH 1957) Ulthuan Grey 11.2
Tan Primer Commando Khaki 3.2
Tire Black 1 Abaddon Black 0.0
Transparent Blue Liche Purple 8.7
Transparent Dust Bleached Bone 4.3
Transparent Green Warpstone Glow 3.6
Transparent Light Rust 1 Spiritstone Red 3.6
Transparent Medium Corax White 0.0
Transparent Orange Ryza Rust 2.9
Transparent Red Mechrite Red 2.7
Transparent Smoke Administratum Grey 3.5
US Army Khaki Drab FS 34088 Aggaros Dunes 4.1
US Army Olive Drab FS 319 Aggaros Dunes 4.1
US Army Olive Drab FS 33070 Knarloc Green 4.8
US Army Olive Drab FS 34088 Death Guard Green 5.8
US Army Olive Drab Faded 1 FS 34088 Death Guard Green 3.8
US Army Olive Drab Faded 2 Camo Green 5.2
US Army Olive Drab Faded 3 Zandri Dust 1.4
US Army Sand FS 30277 Commando Khaki 3.3
US Blue Grey FS35189 Celestra Grey 5.1
US Camouflage Grey FS 36622 Wrack White 4.4
US Dark Green FS 34079 Dryad Bark 4.0
US Desert Tan Modern 2 FS 33446 Sycorax Bronze 3.2
US Interior Green FS 34151 Death Guard Green 4.2
US Medium Green FS 34102 Knarloc Green 2.7
USAAF Olive Drab 41 WWII Steel Legion Drab 4.2
USN Flight Deck Blue 21 The Fang 2.1
USN Pale Grey Blue 5P Mithril Silver 2.4
USN/USMC Sea Blue FS 35042 Necron Abyss 5.1
White Corax White 0.0
White Aluminum Drakenhof Nightshade 2.5
White Primer Corax White 0.0
Worn Black Grey Tires / Camo Leviadon Blue 2.6
Yellow Phalanx Yellow 0.9
Yellow Zinc Chromate Sigismund Yellow Clear 5.0

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