Revell to Tamiya paint conversion chart

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

54 of the 88 Revell colours below have an equivalent in Tamiya 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 4.6. The 34 gaps are not spread evenly: 8 of them are reds, so that is the corner of the Revell range Tamiya does not answer.

		ΔE
Africa Brown	Wooden deck tan	4.9
Aluminium	Bare-metal silver	2.4
Anthracite Grey	Black	3.5
Beige	Wooden deck tan	6.5
Beige	Wooden deck tan	1.2
Black	NATO black	4.9
Black	NATO black	5.3
Black	Black	4.9
Black Green	Dark green 2 (IJN)	4.8
Blue	Pearl blue	2.4
Blue	Brilliant blue	6.0
Brass	Gold	5.9
Bronze	Dark copper	2.7
Bronze Green	Olive drab 2	1.6
Brown	Dark copper	3.0
Brown	Brown (JGSDF)	6.9
Carmine Red	Mixing red	10.0
Clear	Acrylic thinner	0.0
Clear	Acrylic thinner	0.0
Clear Blue	Light ghost gray	11.5
Clear Orange	Brilliant orange	5.7
Clear Red	Clear red	10.4
Copper	Yellow-brown (DAK 1941)	7.5
Dark Blue	Royal blue	0.5
Dark Earth (RAF)	Brown (JGSDF)	3.9
Dark Green	NATO green	4.5
Dark Green	Gray green	5.7
Dark Green (RAF)	Dark green 2 (IJN)	5.4
Dark Grey	Ocean gray	1.8
Dust Grey	Ocean gray	1.8
Earth Brown	Brown (JGSDF)	8.5
Emerald Green	NATO green	9.8
Fiery Red	Flat earth	8.0
Fiery Red	Mica red	7.9
Flesh	Flat flesh	7.6
Gold	Wooden deck tan	1.5
Granite Grey	Field blue	0.7
Green	Light green (Luftwaffe)	7.2
Greenish Grey	Metallic grey	5.6
Grey	IJN gray (Kure Arsenal)	2.8
Grey	IJN gray (Kure Arsenal)	3.7
Grey (USAF)	IJN gray (Kure Arsenal)	2.1
Greyish Blue	IJN gray<br>(Yokosuka Arsenal)	3.8
Greyish Green	Khaki	8.1
Gunship Grey	Metallic grey	2.7
Italian Red	Mica red	3.1
Leaf Green	Light green (Luftwaffe)	6.8
Leather Brown	Red brown 2	4.6
Light Blue	French blue	5.9
Light Blue	Light blue	3.1
Light Green	Light blue	6.4
Light Grey	Bare-metal silver	1.2
Light Grey (USAF)	Sky grey	6.4
Light Olive	Light gun metal	5.8
Luminous Orange	Bright red	1.0
Luminous Red	Mica red	2.1
Luminous Yellow	Pure yellow	4.6
Mouse Grey	IJN gray (Sasebo Arsenal)	3.1
Mud Brown	Linoleum deck brown	4.7
NATO Olive	Linoleum deck brown.jpeg	5.2
Night Blue	Mixing blue	2.7
Ochre Brown	Tan	2.2
Olive Brown	Brown (JGSDF)	5.3
Olive Green	Olive drab	2.0
Olive Grey	Gun metal	2.5
Olive Yellow	Olive drab	7.6
Orange	Orange	5.0
Patina Green	Field grey	8.0
Purple Red	Bronze	6.1
Reddish Brown	Bronze	2.9
Rust	Dull red.jpeg	5.6
Sandy Yellow	Light sand	4.7
Sea Green	Olive drab 2	1.6
Sea Green	Dark green 2 (IJN)	7.9
Silver	Sky grey	4.8
Sky (RAF)	J.N. grey	3.7
Steel	IJN gray<br>(Kure Arsenal)	2.5
Stone Grey	Smoke	1.7
Tank Grey	Rubber black	3.4
Tar Black	NATO black	4.5
Ultramarine Blue	Blue	2.7
White	Pearl clear	2.6
White	Acrylic thinner	0.0
White	Bare-metal silver	2.4
Wood Brown	Dark copper	5.6
Yellow	Mixing yellow	2.2
Yellow	Mixing yellow	2.1
Yellow	Camel yellow	4.9

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