Paint Equivalents

Revell to Mr. Hobby paint conversion chart

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

72 of the 88 Revell colours below have an equivalent in Mr. Hobby within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 19 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 3.2. The 16 gaps are not spread evenly: 6 of them are oranges, so that is the corner of the Revell range Mr. Hobby does not answer.

RevellMr. HobbyΔE
Africa Brown Dark Yellow Highlight 1 5.6
Aluminium Light Gray Fs36495 1.5
Anthracite Grey MS Red 3.4
Beige Light Brown 5.9
Beige IDF Grau 1 (-1981 Shinai) 2.1
Black German Gray Shadow 3.8
Black German Gray Shadow 4.9
Black German Gray Shadow 3.4
Black Green Russian Green Shadow 2.2
Blue MS White 2.4
Blue Deep Clear Blue 3.2
Brass Clear Gold 5.2
Bronze Brass 4.6
Bronze Green Grass Color 2.6
Brown Brass 3.9
Brown Smoke Gray 4.8
Carmine Red Red Fs11136 2.2
Clear Chalky White 0.0
Clear Chalky White 0.0
Clear Blue Tourmaline Green 6.9
Clear Orange Clear Pale Brown 6.5
Clear Red Salmon Pink 5.5
Copper Copper 8.1
Dark Blue Phthalo Cyanine Blue 1.0
Dark Earth (RAF) Japanese Brown 6.2
Dark Green Russian Green (2) 1.3
Dark Green Bronzegrun 2.3
Dark Green (RAF) Dark Green 2.9
Dark Grey JMSDF 2705 Dark Gray N4 1.9
Dust Grey JMSDF 2705 Dark Gray N4 1.9
Earth Brown Smoke Gray 3.5
Emerald Green Green 4.4
Fiery Red Red Fs11136 A 1.2
Fiery Red Red Fs11136 A 1.1
Flesh Clear Pale Brown 3.2
Gold IDF Grau 1 (-1981 Shinai) 2.0
Granite Grey Gray Fs36081 4.6
Green IJN Type21 Camoflage Color 4.1
Greenish Grey Rlm71 Dark Green 2.9
Grey Neutral Gray 1.8
Grey IJN Hull Color/Kure 4.1
Grey (USAF) IJN Hull Color/Kure 2.7
Greyish Blue Ocean Gray 2.2
Greyish Green Dark Seagray 3.6
Gunship Grey JMSDF 2705 Dark Gray N4 3.2
Italian Red Deep Clear Red 2.5
Leaf Green Green 3.2
Leather Brown Mud 4.5
Light Blue Metal Blue 2.7
Light Blue Light Gray 5.3
Light Green RLM65 Light Blue 5.2
Light Grey Light Gray Fs36495 1.9
Light Grey (USAF) Aluminium 2.8
Light Olive IJN Hull Color/Sasebo 5.7
Luminous Orange Fluorescent Orange 3.2
Luminous Red Character Red 2.0
Luminous Yellow Fluorescent Yellow 4.6
Mouse Grey IJN Hull Color/Sasebo 1.4
Mud Brown Brass 5.8
NATO Olive Dark Earth 3.2
Night Blue Phthalo Cyanine Blue 4.5
Ochre Brown RLM79 Sandy Brown 3.3
Olive Brown Earth Green 5.0
Olive Green Khaki 2.4
Olive Grey JMSDF 2705 Dark Gray N4 2.6
Olive Yellow Brown Fs30219 2.7
Orange Clear Orange 2.8
Patina Green Dark Gray (1) 2.9
Purple Red Metal Bloody Red 3.6
Reddish Brown Red Brown 3.6
Rust Red Brown (2) 7.9
Sandy Yellow Rough Gold 1.8
Sea Green Grass Color 2.6
Sea Green Rlm83 Dark Green 1.6
Silver Aluminium 2.7
Sky (RAF) Sky Bs381c/210 5.8
Steel JMSDF 2704 Gray N5 2.9
Stone Grey Dark Gray (1) 4.2
Tank Grey German Gray Highlight 1 1.9
Tar Black RLM66 Black Gray A 4.7
Ultramarine Blue Cobalt Blue 5.9
White Off White 1.3
White Chalky White 0.0
White Light Gray Fs36495 1.5
Wood Brown Brass 5.9
Yellow Clear Yellow 2.1
Yellow Clear Yellow 2.1
Yellow Yellow Fs13538 1.7