Paint Equivalents

Revell to Reaper paint conversion chart

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

65 of the 88 Revell colours below have an equivalent in Reaper 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 3.7. The 23 gaps are not spread evenly: 6 of them are blue-greens, so that is the corner of the Revell range Reaper does not answer.

RevellReaperΔE
Africa Brown Bugbear Fur 4.0
Aluminium Aircraft Grey 3.9
Anthracite Grey Besmara Black 3.3
Beige Alien Flesh 4.7
Beige Golden Skin 3.8
Black Worn Navy 2.2
Black Steel Wash 3.4
Black Worn Navy 1.7
Black Green Elven Green 6.5
Blue Sapphire Blue 3.8
Blue Andoran Blue 1.1
Brass Faded Khaki 2.0
Bronze Barbarian Flesh 3.5
Bronze Green Military Green 7.7
Brown Goblin Skin 3.3
Brown Dusky Skin 6.2
Carmine Red Heraldic Red 2.8
Clear Anti-Shine Additive 0.0
Clear Anti-Shine Additive 0.0
Clear Blue Frost Blue 7.0
Clear Orange Burnt Orange 5.3
Clear Red Red Neon Glow 4.4
Copper Warrior Flesh 2.9
Dark Blue Twilight Purple 3.7
Dark Earth (RAF) Brown Sand 1.6
Dark Green Military Blue 7.3
Dark Green Elven Green 5.4
Dark Green (RAF) Elven Green 3.3
Dark Grey Skeleton Key 6.1
Dust Grey Skeleton Key 6.1
Earth Brown Wolf Grey 4.3
Emerald Green Grass Green 4.7
Fiery Red Heraldic Red 3.4
Fiery Red Heraldic Red 3.1
Flesh Ruby Red 4.1
Gold Golden Skin 3.6
Granite Grey Black Wash 3.5
Green Muddy Olive 4.4
Greenish Grey Skeleton Key 1.6
Grey Glacial Mist 6.7
Grey Rainy Grey 5.7
Grey (USAF) Rainy Grey 4.5
Greyish Blue Cloudy Grey 7.6
Greyish Green Orc Skin 7.2
Gunship Grey Cloudy Grey 6.4
Italian Red Merisiel Red 3.0
Leaf Green Christmas Wreath 2.7
Leather Brown Dusky Skin Shadow 5.3
Light Blue True Blue 2.2
Light Blue Surf Aqua 6.4
Light Green Surf Aqua 3.3
Light Grey Misty Grey 3.1
Light Grey (USAF) Crusader Silver 3.0
Light Olive Stone Grey 4.7
Luminous Orange Holly Berry 4.3
Luminous Red Carnage Red 3.3
Luminous Yellow Lemon Yellow 3.2
Mouse Grey Cloudy Grey 2.5
Mud Brown Ruddy Flesh 2.1
NATO Olive Mountain Stone 5.5
Night Blue Twilight Purple 4.3
Ochre Brown Driftwood Brown 2.8
Olive Brown Brown Sand 7.1
Olive Green Aged Pewter 6.4
Olive Grey Skeleton Key 4.7
Olive Yellow Mountain Stone 6.3
Orange Lava Orange 2.5
Patina Green Grass Green 6.3
Purple Red Succubus Kiss 4.0
Reddish Brown Wyvern Leather 1.1
Rust Chestnut Brown 4.2
Sandy Yellow Keleshite Gold 4.1
Sea Green Military Green 7.7
Sea Green Military Blue 3.7
Silver Honed Steel 3.5
Sky (RAF) Splintered Bone 7.3
Steel Gozreh Gray 3.0
Stone Grey Tarnished Steel 3.8
Tank Grey Tempest Grey 1.6
Tar Black Besmara Black 2.9
Ultramarine Blue Violet Light 2.3
White Skeleton White 2.5
White Anti-Shine Additive 0.0
White Aircraft Grey 3.9
Wood Brown Chestnut Gold 1.7
Yellow NMM Gold Highlight 0.9
Yellow NMM Gold Highlight 1.0
Yellow Lantern Yellow 1.3