Paint Equivalents

Tamiya to Citadel paint conversion chart

Every Tamiya paint with its closest Citadel equivalent, matched by CIEDE2000. 320 rows, sorted by name.

261 of the 320 Tamiya colours below have an equivalent in Citadel within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 92 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 3.2. The 59 gaps are not spread evenly: 16 of them are yellows, so that is the corner of the Tamiya range Citadel does not answer.

TamiyaCitadelΔE
Acrylic thinner Corax White 0.0
Bare-metal silver Runefang Steel 1.1
Base white Corax White 0.0
Black Abaddon Black 0.0
Black Abaddon Black 1.6
Black Dryad Bark 4.9
Black green Caliban Green 8.3
Blue Macragge Blue 3.2
Blue Macragge Blue 3.2
Blue violet Hoeth Blue 3.2
Bright mica red Angron Red Clear 2.6
Bright orange Jokaero Orange 3.0
Bright red Angron Red Clear 2.3
Bright red Jokaero Orange 3.2
Brilliant blue Ultramarine Blue 2.3
Brilliant orange Pyroclast Orange Clear 3.3
British green Caliban Green 6.4
Bronze Beaten Copper 5.0
Brown Gore-Grunta Fur 7.7
Brown (JGSDF) Stirland Battlemire 1.2
Brown (JGSDF) Graveyard Earth 3.3
Brown (JGSDF) Snakebite Leather 3.4
Buff Krieg Khaki 3.5
Buff Kislev Flesh 2.5
Camel yellow Averland Sunset 2.2
Candy lime green Scorpion Green 3.8
Champagne gold Wraithbone 4.8
Champagne gold Krieg Khaki 3.2
Chrome silver Runefang Steel 1.1
Chrome yellow Sunburst Yellow 2.7
Clear Corax White 0.0
Clear Corax White 0.0
Clear Corax White 0.0
Clear blue Baharroth Blue 6.1
Clear blue Guilliman Blue 4.0
Clear blue Baharroth Blue 4.7
Clear green Goblin Green 4.0
Clear orange Pyroclast Orange Clear 4.7
Clear orange Iyanden Yellow 4.4
Clear orange Fiery Orange 2.3
Clear red Angron Red Clear 4.6
Clear red Magenta Ink 1.6
Clear red Magenta Ink 4.1
Clear yellow Phalanx Yellow 1.2
Clear yellow Phalanx Yellow 0.9
Cockpit green (IJN) Nurgling Green 2.6
Copper Gehenna Gold 4.6
Coral blue Nihilakh Oxide 3.7
Dark blue Necron Abyss 5.3
Dark copper Brazen Brass 3.4
Dark earth Snakebite Leather 1.0
Dark ghost gray Astronomicon Grey 5.8
Dark ghost grey Ironbreaker 8.7
Dark green Caliban Green 8.2
Dark green Caliban Green 2.6
Dark green Castellan Green 2.0
Dark green Caliban Green 8.2
Dark green (IJA) Castellan Green 3.0
Dark green (JGSDF) Castellan Green 2.7
Dark green (JGSDF) Corax White 0.0
Dark green (JGSDF).jpeg Knarloc Green 4.6
Dark green (Luftwaffe) Vulkan Green 8.8
Dark green 2 Caliban Green 8.7
Dark green 2 Corax White 0.0
Dark green 2 Knarloc Green 6.0
Dark green 2 Skarsnik Green 4.6
Dark green 2 (IJN) Caliban Green 6.2
Dark green 2 (IJN) Waaagh! Flesh 5.1
Dark green 2 (RAF) Corax White 0.0
Dark grey Eshin Grey 3.0
Dark iron Corax White 0.0
Dark iron Scorched Brown 3.7
Dark mica blue Chaos Black 4.6
Dark sea grey Warpfiend Grey 4.6
Dark yellow Armageddon Dust 5.3
Dark yellow Sigmarite 4.2
Dark yellow 2 Corax White 0.0
Dark yellow 2 Burnished Gold 5.7
Deck tan Athonian Camoshade 3.1
Deep green Devlan Mud Wash 7.1
Deep metallic blue Necron Abyss 6.0
Desert yellow Leprous Brown 4.7
Dull red Khorne Red 0.4
Dull red.jpeg Calthan Brown 1.9
Field blue Mechanicus Standard Grey 3.6
Field grey Skarsnik Green 5.6
Field grey Knarloc Green 8.7
Flat aluminum Wrack White 1.8
Flat aluminum Valhallan Blizzard 1.5
Flat base Corax White 0.0
Flat base Corax White 0.5
Flat black Dryad Bark 4.9
Flat black Abaddon Black 1.6
Flat blue Calgar Blue 1.8
Flat blue Shadow Grey 0.8
Flat brown Stirland Mud 3.9
Flat clear Corax White 0.0
Flat clear Grey Knights Steel 4.4
Flat clear Corax White 0.0
Flat earth Fyreslayer Flesh 2.7
Flat earth Guilliman Flesh 4.0
Flat flesh Cassandora Yellow 5.0
Flat flesh Cassandora Yellow 1.4
Flat flesh Elf Flesh 4.4
Flat green Castellan Green 1.3
Flat red Jokaero Orange 3.2
Flat red Angron Red Clear 1.1
Flat white Corax White 0.0
Flat white Corax White 0.0
Flat yellow Sunburst Yellow 2.7
Flat yellow Phalanx Yellow 0.2
Fluorescent orange Corax White 0.0
Fluorescent red Wild Rider Red 3.4
French blue Imrik Blue 2.4
German gray The Fang 5.6
German grey Mechanicus Standard Grey 3.0
German grey Mechanicus Standard Grey 3.0
Gloss aluminum Valhallan Blizzard 1.5
Gloss aluminum Runefang Steel 1.1
Gold Armageddon Dust 3.4
Gold leaf Armageddon Dust 3.4
Gray green Vulkan Green 1.9
Gray green (IJN) Rotting Flesh 2.7
Gray green (IJN) Rotting Flesh 2.7
Gray green (IJN) Rotting Flesh 2.1
Gray violet The Fang 3.4
Green Caliban Green 2.2
Green Vulkan Green 3.6
Gun metal Eshin Grey 3.6
Gun metal Eshin Grey 2.8
Gun metal Eshin Grey 3.6
Gunship gray 2 Mechanicus Standard Grey 5.4
Gunship grey Eshin Grey 1.6
Haze grey Ironbreaker 4.9
Hull red Mournfang Brown 2.7
IJN gray (Kure Arsenal) Ironbreaker 2.6
IJN gray (Kure Arsenal) Ironbreaker 2.6
IJN gray (Maizuru Arsenal) Corax White 0.0
IJN gray (Maizuru Arsenal) Corax White 0.0
IJN gray (Sasebo Arsenal) Iron Warriors 5.0
IJN gray (Yokosuka Arsenal) Corax White 0.0
IJN gray<br>(Kure Arsenal) Codex Grey 5.4
IJN gray<br>(Maizuru Arsenal) Codex Grey 2.2
IJN gray<br>(Sasebo Arsenal) Adeptus Battlegrey 4.3
IJN gray<br>(Yokosuka Arsenal) Warpfiend Grey 4.5
IJN graySasebo Arsenal Iron Warriors 5.0
Insignia white Longbeard Grey 6.2
Insignia white Valhallan Blizzard 2.8
Intermediate blue Hawk Turquoise 8.7
Italian red Angron Red Clear 5.4
Italian red Jokaero Orange 3.2
J.A. green Castellan Green 3.0
J.A. grey Orruk Flesh 5.2
J.N. green Typhus Corrosion 6.9
J.N. grey Rotting Flesh 5.1
Khaki Death Guard Green 7.2
Khaki Nurgles Rot 3.6
Khaki drab Typhus Corrosion 5.8
Lacquer thinner Corax White 0.0
Lavender Imperial Purple 4.8
Lemon yellow Phalanx Yellow 1.2
Light blue Celestra Grey 7.2
Light blue Gauss Blaster Green 6.9
Light blue Baharroth Blue 7.6
Light brown (DAK 1941) Golden Griffon 3.4
Light ghost gray Astronomicon Grey 4.3
Light ghost grey Celestra Grey 1.8
Light gray Longbeard Grey 3.8
Light gray Deepkin Flesh 4.4
Light gray Pallid Wych Flesh 3.9
Light gray (IJA) Deepkin Flesh 4.0
Light gray (IJN) Pallid Wych Flesh 2.8
Light green Scorpion Green 4.3
Light green Scorpion Green 7.9
Light green (Luftwaffe) Loren Forest 4.1
Light grey Dawnstone 6.8
Light gun metal Astrogranite 0.4
Light gun metal Astrogranite 3.8
Light metallic blue Sotek Green 2.9
Light sand Kislev Flesh 2.3
Light sand Ungor Flesh 2.5
Light sea grey Fenrisian Grey 7.1
Linoleum deck brown Bestial Brown 4.8
Linoleum deck brown Terracotta 7.8
Linoleum deck brown.jpeg Sylvaneth Bark 3.6
Maroon Mournfang Brown 2.3
Matt black Dryad Bark 4.9
Matt white Corax White 0.0
Medium blue Mechanicus Standard Grey 6.5
Medium gray Astrogranite 5.7
Medium grey Deepkin Flesh 4.4
Medium sea gray Ionrach Skin 3.6
Medium sea gray 2 Astronomicon Grey 6.9
Medium sea gray 2 (RAF) Corax White 0.0
Metallic black Charadon Granite 3.5
Metallic black Eshin Grey 5.0
Metallic blue Gryph-Charger Grey 4.1
Metallic blue Alaitoc Blue 4.2
Metallic brown Gryphonne Sepia Wash 5.0
Metallic gold Tyrant Skull 5.3
Metallic gray Iron Warriors 2.6
Metallic gray Corax White 0.0
Metallic green Goblin Green 4.2
Metallic grey Warpfiend Grey 6.6
Metallic orange Pyroclast Orange Clear 2.1
Metallic orange Corax White 0.0
Metallic red Angron Red Clear 1.8
Metallic silver Necron Compound 1.8
Mica blue Macragge Blue 3.3
Mica blue Macragge Blue 2.9
Mica red Evil Sunz Scarlet 2.7
Mica red Wild Rider Red 3.4
Mica silver Necron Compound 1.4
Mica silver Wrack White 1.8
Mixing blue Soulstone Blue 3.2
Mixing red Blood Red 3.4
Mixing yellow Yriel Yellow 0.5
NATO black Basilicanum Grey 1.6
NATO black Abaddon Black 0.0
NATO black Basilicanum Grey 1.6
NATO brown Gryphonne Sepia Wash 4.0
NATO brown Fyreslayer Flesh 4.2
NATO brown Gryphonne Sepia Wash 4.0
NATO green Loren Forest 5.0
NATO green Dark Angels Green 2.9
NATO green Loren Forest 5.0
Navy blue Fenrys Grey 2.1
Neutral gray Ironbreaker 3.5
Neutral grey Astrogranite 5.7
Ocean gray Eshin Grey 5.5
Ocean gray 2 Fenrisian Grey 7.3
Ocean gray 2 (RAF) Corax White 0.0
Olive drab Castellan Green 7.1
Olive drab Castellan Green 7.1
Olive drab Catachan Green 2.8
Olive drab Castellan Green 7.1
Olive drab (JGSDF) Castellan Green 5.5
Olive drab (JGSDF) Dark Angels Green 2.9
Olive drab (JGSDF) Castellan Green 3.7
Olive drab 2 Knarloc Green 0.9
Olive drab 2 Death Guard Green 4.8
Olive green Caliban Green 3.8
Olive green Castellan Green 3.7
Orange Pyroclast Orange Clear 3.3
Orange Ryza Rust 4.0
Park green Hexwraith Flame 3.2
Park green Hexwraith Flame 1.0
Pearl blue Macragge Blue 3.0
Pearl blue Macragge Blue 0.6
Pearl clear 'Ardcoat 1.2
Pearl clear Longbeard Grey 2.3
Pearl green Orruk Flesh 3.6
Pearl light blue Fenrisian Grey 2.6
Pearl light red Carroburg Crimson 4.0
Pearl white Corax White 0.0
Pearl white Longbeard Grey 6.2
Pearl yellow Corax White 0.0
Pink Changeling Pink 9.9
Pink Changeling Pink 5.2
Pure blue Ultramarine Blue 4.0
Pure blue Corax White 0.0
Pure metallic red Angron Red Clear 2.7
Pure metallic red Corax White 0.0
Pure orange Bronzed Flesh 4.2
Pure orange Corax White 0.0
Pure red Angron Red Clear 2.7
Pure red Angron Red Clear 2.6
Pure white Corax White 0.0
Pure yellow Bad Moon Yellow 0.6
Purple Altdorf Guard Blue 4.5
Purple Altdorf Guard Blue 4.5
RLM grey Administratum Grey 7.8
Racing blue Macragge Blue 3.0
Racing blue Liche Purple 4.7
Racing green Castellan Green 3.0
Racing white Corax White 0.0
Racing white Valhallan Blizzard 1.1
Red Jokaero Orange 3.2
Red brown Gore-Grunta Fur 4.6
Red brown Gore-Grunta Fur 4.6
Red brown 2 Corax White 0.0
Red brown 2 Thondia Brown 2.6
Royal blue Soulstone Blue 3.0
Royal light gray Runefang Steel 3.8
Royal light gray Runefang Steel 3.8
Rubber black Corax White 0.0
Rubber black Abaddon Black 0.0
Rubber black Eshin Grey 1.8
Sea blue Asurmen Blue Wash 5.3
Semi gloss black Dryad Bark 4.9
Semi gloss black Abaddon Black 1.6
Semi gloss black Dryad Bark 4.9
Semi gloss clear Corax White 0.5
Semi gloss clear Corax White 0.0
Semi-gloss bright gun metal Corax White 0.0
Semi-gloss clear Corax White 0.0
Silver Valhallan Blizzard 0.4
Silver leaf Wrack White 1.8
Sky Krieg Khaki 2.7
Sky blue Lothern Blue 2.4
Sky grey Grey Knights Steel 1.9
Smoke Administratum Grey 2.9
Smoke Runefang Steel 2.9
Smoke Nuln Oil Gloss 4.0
Sparkling silver Valhallan Blizzard 1.3
Tan Seraphim Sepia 4.2
Titanium gold Tyrant Skull 4.4
Titanium gold Tyrant Skull 5.3
Titanium gold Tyrant Skull 4.0
Titanium silver Pallid Wych Flesh 1.3
Titanium silver Longbeard Grey 3.0
Titanium silver Pallid Wych Flesh 3.1
White Corax White 0.0
White Corax White 0.0
Wooden deck tan Golden Griffon 3.5
Wooden deck tan Agrellan Badland 4.5
Wooden deck tan Kislev Flesh 2.1
Yellow Phalanx Yellow 1.2
Yellow green Bilious Green 11.0
Yellow-brown (DAK 1941) Seraphim Sepia 2.1

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