Paint Equivalents

Revell to Citadel paint conversion chart

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

67 of the 88 Revell colours below have an equivalent in Citadel within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 14 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 3.6. The 21 gaps are not spread evenly: 7 of them are blue-greens, so that is the corner of the Revell range Citadel does not answer.

RevellCitadelΔE
Africa Brown Kislev Flesh 3.6
Aluminium Mithril Silver 2.0
Anthracite Grey Black Legion 4.6
Beige Agrellan Badland 4.0
Beige Morghast Bone 4.6
Black Black Templar 2.9
Black Black Legion 3.8
Black Black Templar 2.9
Black Green Waaagh! Flesh 1.4
Blue Mordian Blue 2.6
Blue Enchanted Blue 0.5
Brass Bubonic Brown 5.6
Bronze Dwarf Bronze 1.8
Bronze Green Knarloc Green 1.1
Brown Brass Scorpion 1.7
Brown Khemri Brown 5.4
Carmine Red Spiritstone Red 5.4
Clear Corax White 0.0
Clear Corax White 0.0
Clear Blue Ice Blue 6.0
Clear Orange Fire Dragon Bright 3.3
Clear Red Bloodletter 5.1
Copper Warplock Bronze 2.6
Dark Blue Soulstone Blue 3.3
Dark Earth (RAF) Snakebite Leather 2.3
Dark Green Dark Angels Green 2.4
Dark Green Death Korps Drab 3.6
Dark Green (RAF) Waystone Green 3.7
Dark Grey Eshin Grey 6.8
Dust Grey Eshin Grey 6.8
Earth Brown Stormvermin Fur 4.4
Emerald Green Snot Green 0.3
Fiery Red Spiritstone Red 4.7
Fiery Red Mechrite Red 4.5
Flesh Elf Flesh 5.1
Gold Morghast Bone 4.2
Granite Grey Mechanicus Standard Grey 3.4
Green Loren Forest 4.8
Greenish Grey Dawnstone 7.0
Grey Ironbreaker 5.2
Grey Ironbreaker 4.0
Grey (USAF) Ironbreaker 0.6
Greyish Blue Russ Grey 6.7
Greyish Green Death Guard Green 5.7
Gunship Grey Warpfiend Grey 4.4
Italian Red Evil Sunz Scarlet 5.1
Leaf Green Snot Green 3.8
Leather Brown Bloodreaver Flesh 5.0
Light Blue Calth Blue Clear 3.1
Light Blue Gauss Blaster Green 8.7
Light Green Baharroth Blue 5.3
Light Grey Runefang Steel 2.2
Light Grey (USAF) Grey Seer 1.6
Light Olive Dawnstone 5.5
Luminous Orange Jokaero Orange 3.0
Luminous Red Evil Sunz Scarlet 2.4
Luminous Yellow Dorn Yellow 3.3
Mouse Grey Iron Warriors 3.3
Mud Brown Golgfag Brown 4.3
NATO Olive Sylvaneth Bark 3.5
Night Blue Soulstone Blue 4.0
Ochre Brown Seraphim Sepia 3.9
Olive Brown Aggaros Dunes 2.7
Olive Green Knarloc Green 4.0
Olive Grey Eshin Grey 5.1
Olive Yellow Death Korps Drab 3.8
Orange Blazing Orange 2.6
Patina Green Dark Green Ink 5.8
Purple Red Volupus Pink 4.1
Reddish Brown Beaten Copper 2.5
Rust Bugman Glow 3.1
Sandy Yellow Bubonic Brown 2.2
Sea Green Knarloc Green 1.1
Sea Green Waystone Green 5.6
Silver Grey Seer 2.1
Sky (RAF) Rotting Flesh 4.6
Steel Codex Grey 3.8
Stone Grey Rakarth Flesh 3.7
Tank Grey Eshin Grey 2.5
Tar Black Black Legion 3.0
Ultramarine Blue Storm Blue 2.2
White 'Ardcoat 2.9
White Corax White 0.0
White Mithril Silver 2.0
Wood Brown Tausept Ochre 2.2
Yellow Yriel Yellow 2.1
Yellow Yriel Yellow 2.1
Yellow Bronzed Flesh 5.8