Revell to Apple Barrel paint conversion chart

Every Revell paint with its closest Apple Barrel equivalent, matched by CIEDE2000. 88 rows, sorted by name.

51 of the 88 Revell colours below have an equivalent in Apple Barrel within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 4 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 4.5. The 37 gaps are not spread evenly: 10 of them are oranges, so that is the corner of the Revell range Apple Barrel does not answer.

		ΔE
Africa Brown	Peach	6.7
Aluminium	Real Navy	1.0
Anthracite Grey	Pavement	5.5
Beige	Beige	2.5
Beige	Ivory	6.1
Black	Camouflage	4.6
Black	English Navy	4.5
Black	Black	4.5
Black Green	Arbor Green	6.0
Blue	Primary Blue	0.8
Blue	Moody Blue	5.9
Brass	Yellow	4.7
Bronze	Mango	6.5
Bronze Green	English Ivy Green	4.5
Brown	Jack-O-Lantern	4.9
Brown	Brown Oxide	3.7
Carmine Red	Candy Apple	3.7
Clear	White	3.9
Clear	White	3.9
Clear Blue	Bright Blue	3.8
Clear Orange	Tangelo	4.3
Clear Red	Tropic Orange	10.0
Copper	Mango	3.7
Dark Blue	Deep Purple	3.0
Dark Earth (RAF)	Territorial Beige	6.8
Dark Green	Mountain Forest	4.6
Dark Green	English Ivy Green	3.7
Dark Green (RAF)	Mountain Forest	3.3
Dark Grey	Denim Blue	7.7
Dust Grey	Denim Blue	7.7
Earth Brown	Brown Oxide	6.0
Emerald Green	Green Clover	3.4
Fiery Red	Hot Ember	2.7
Fiery Red	Candy Apple	2.8
Flesh	Peach	6.9
Gold	Ivory	5.8
Granite Grey	Tuscan Teal	7.1
Green	Caterpillar	3.0
Greenish Grey	Hunter Green	3.3
Grey	Granite Gray	7.9
Grey	Timeless Gray	4.4
Grey (USAF)	Timeless Gray	3.7
Greyish Blue	Sky Blue	5.4
Greyish Green	Wedgewood Green	9.4
Gunship Grey	Misty White	6.3
Italian Red	Candy Apple	7.0
Leaf Green	New Shamrock	3.7
Leather Brown	Chocolate Sprinkle	6.2
Light Blue	Electric Blue	3.8
Light Blue	Key West	4.2
Light Green	Caribbean	2.1
Light Grey	Real Navy	2.8
Light Grey (USAF)	Timeless Gray	3.2
Light Olive	Granite Gray	9.2
Luminous Orange	Orange	5.6
Luminous Red	Sweet Potato	5.4
Luminous Yellow	Neon Yellow	5.9
Mouse Grey	Misty White	4.7
Mud Brown	Toffee	2.2
NATO Olive	Dark Gray	5.7
Night Blue	Deep Purple	3.1
Ochre Brown	Classic Caramel	2.6
Olive Brown	Territorial Beige	7.3
Olive Green	English Ivy Green	4.2
Olive Grey	Dark Gray	6.4
Olive Yellow	Dark Gray	5.0
Orange	Pumpkin Orange	2.1
Patina Green	Green Clover	5.6
Purple Red	Cranberry	3.3
Reddish Brown	Barn Red	6.1
Rust	Tuscan Red	5.2
Sandy Yellow	Sunny Day	7.9
Sea Green	English Ivy Green	4.5
Sea Green	Reef Blue	2.5
Silver	Timeless Gray	5.6
Sky (RAF)	Spring Green	5.7
Steel	Misty White	5.4
Stone Grey	Granite Gray	4.5
Tank Grey	Denim Blue	5.6
Tar Black	Pavement	5.0
Ultramarine Blue	Cobalt Hue	1.8
White	White	2.8
White	White	3.9
White	Real Navy	1.0
Wood Brown	Toffee	7.5
Yellow	Light Yellow	4.2
Yellow	Light Yellow	4.0
Yellow	Sunbeam	2.6

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