Paint Equivalents

Tamiya to P3 paint conversion chart

Every Tamiya paint with its closest P3 equivalent, matched by CIEDE2000. 320 rows, sorted by name.

169 of the 320 Tamiya colours below have an equivalent in P3 within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 57 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 4.8. The 151 gaps are not spread evenly: 32 of them are greens, so that is the corner of the Tamiya range P3 does not answer.

TamiyaP3ΔE
Acrylic thinner Morrow White 1.7
Bare-metal silver Cold Steel 2.1
Base white Morrow White 1.7
Black Thamar Black 0.0
Black Thamar Black 1.6
Black Asheth Grey 5.2
Black green Cryx Bane Base 11.6
Blue Exile Blue 3.9
Blue Exile Blue 3.9
Blue violet Cygnar Blue Highlight 6.0
Bright mica red Ember Orange 4.2
Bright orange Ember Orange 3.7
Bright red Ember Orange 4.2
Bright red Ember Orange 4.2
Brilliant blue Stormguard Blue 3.6
Brilliant orange Khador Red Highlight 5.6
British green Cryx Bane Base 11.3
Bronze Sanguine Base 5.2
Brown Sul Red 4.8
Brown (JGSDF) Bile Thrall 3.8
Brown (JGSDF) Copper Pipe 2.5
Brown (JGSDF) Bog Moss 5.6
Buff Icy Yellow 5.7
Buff Beast Hide 7.1
Camel yellow Heartfire 5.2
Candy lime green Necrotite Green 8.0
Champagne gold Hammerfall Khaki 2.6
Champagne gold Icy Yellow 3.1
Chrome silver Cold Steel 2.1
Chrome yellow Sulfuric Yellow 5.1
Clear Morrow White 1.7
Clear Morrow White 1.7
Clear Morrow White 1.7
Clear blue Meredius Blue 8.2
Clear blue Voltaic Blue 14.8
Clear blue Meredius Blue 1.6
Clear green Green Ink 4.5
Clear orange Khador Red Highlight 4.6
Clear orange Khador Red Highlight 5.6
Clear orange Khador Red Highlight 7.7
Clear red Ember Orange 2.8
Clear red Troll Tongue 11.6
Clear red Troll Tongue 11.7
Clear yellow Yellow Ink 2.0
Clear yellow Yellow Ink 2.2
Cockpit green (IJN) Traitor Green 4.3
Copper Kapitan Red 8.7
Coral blue Meredius Blue 11.4
Dark blue Exile Blue 11.9
Dark copper Idrian Flesh 1.0
Dark earth Mud Rut 1.0
Dark ghost gray Voltaic Blue 2.8
Dark ghost grey Voltaic Blue 8.0
Dark green Cryx Bane Base 7.0
Dark green Cryx Bane Base 9.8
Dark green Cryx Bane Base 10.1
Dark green Cryx Bane Base 7.0
Dark green (IJA) Eldritch Green 8.9
Dark green (JGSDF) Eldritch Green 9.0
Dark green (JGSDF) Morrow White 1.7
Dark green (JGSDF).jpeg Eldritch Green 5.6
Dark green (Luftwaffe) Cryx Bane Base 7.2
Dark green 2 Cryx Bane Base 11.7
Dark green 2 Morrow White 1.7
Dark green 2 Eldritch Green 5.0
Dark green 2 Arcantrik Green 2.2
Dark green 2 (IJN) Cryx Bane Base 11.3
Dark green 2 (IJN) Eldritch Green 8.3
Dark green 2 (RAF) Morrow White 1.7
Dark grey Gravedigger Denim 5.8
Dark iron Morrow White 1.7
Dark iron Bane Grey 7.0
Dark mica blue Thamar Black 10.0
Dark sea grey Greatcoat Grey 5.1
Dark yellow Moldy Ochre 5.3
Dark yellow Icy Yellow 5.0
Dark yellow 2 Morrow White 1.7
Dark yellow 2 Moldy Ochre 5.5
Deck tan Hammerfall Khaki 4.1
Deep green Battlefield Brown 5.6
Deep metallic blue Exile Blue 10.3
Desert yellow Blazing Ink 5.3
Dull red Sanguine Base 2.9
Dull red.jpeg Brown Ink 1.9
Field blue Gravedigger Denim 6.6
Field grey Arcantrik Green 5.3
Field grey Mage Hunter Green 6.6
Flat aluminum Quick Silver 4.7
Flat aluminum Quick Silver 4.3
Flat base Morrow White 1.7
Flat base Morrow White 2.1
Flat black Asheth Grey 5.2
Flat black Thamar Black 1.6
Flat blue Cygnar Blue Base 4.0
Flat blue Runeshot 6.0
Flat brown Battlefield Brown 9.3
Flat clear Morrow White 1.7
Flat clear Cold Steel 7.9
Flat clear Morrow White 1.7
Flat earth Basilisk Brown 3.1
Flat earth Bloodstone 4.1
Flat flesh Ryn Flesh 10.2
Flat flesh Blazing Ink 9.3
Flat flesh Blazing Ink 7.1
Flat green Cryx Bane Base 9.7
Flat red Ember Orange 4.2
Flat red Ember Orange 4.0
Flat white Morrow White 1.7
Flat white Morrow White 1.7
Flat yellow Sulfuric Yellow 5.1
Flat yellow Yellow Ink 2.8
Fluorescent orange Morrow White 1.7
Fluorescent red Ember Orange 2.3
French blue Cygnar Blue Highlight 11.0
German gray Greatcoat Grey 5.0
German grey Gravedigger Denim 4.4
German grey Gravedigger Denim 4.4
Gloss aluminum Quick Silver 4.3
Gloss aluminum Cold Steel 2.1
Gold Moldy Ochre 5.3
Gold leaf Moldy Ochre 5.3
Gray green Cryx Bane Base 6.2
Gray green (IJN) Radiant Platinum 5.9
Gray green (IJN) Radiant Platinum 5.9
Gray green (IJN) Thrall Flesh 6.0
Gray violet Greatcoat Grey 5.4
Green Eldritch Green 7.9
Green Cryx Bane Base 8.6
Gun metal Gravedigger Denim 2.6
Gun metal Gravedigger Denim 4.8
Gun metal Gravedigger Denim 2.6
Gunship gray 2 Greatcoat Grey 4.7
Gunship grey Gravedigger Denim 4.2
Haze grey Ironhull Grey 6.1
Hull red Amethyst Rose 2.6
IJN gray (Kure Arsenal) Ironhull Grey 3.4
IJN gray (Kure Arsenal) Ironhull Grey 3.4
IJN gray (Maizuru Arsenal) Morrow White 1.7
IJN gray (Maizuru Arsenal) Morrow White 1.7
IJN gray (Sasebo Arsenal) Pig Iron 5.9
IJN gray (Yokosuka Arsenal) Morrow White 1.7
IJN gray<br>(Kure Arsenal) Pig Iron 6.1
IJN gray<br>(Maizuru Arsenal) Pig Iron 4.7
IJN gray<br>(Sasebo Arsenal) Greatcoat Grey 3.1
IJN gray<br>(Yokosuka Arsenal) Greatcoat Grey 7.4
IJN graySasebo Arsenal Pig Iron 5.9
Insignia white Menoth White Highlight 3.0
Insignia white Quick Silver 6.2
Intermediate blue Trollblood Base 7.0
Italian red Ruddy Blush 6.0
Italian red Ember Orange 4.2
J.A. green Cryx Bane Base 8.7
J.A. grey Thrall Flesh 6.8
J.N. green Cryx Bane Base 6.7
J.N. grey Thrall Flesh 7.4
Khaki Battledress Green 3.4
Khaki Rucksack Tan 6.5
Khaki drab Cryx Bane Base 6.0
Lacquer thinner Morrow White 1.7
Lavender Beaten Purple 6.0
Lemon yellow Yellow Ink 2.0
Light blue Riven Green 9.5
Light blue Riven Green 10.0
Light blue Meredius Blue 8.8
Light brown (DAK 1941) Blazing Ink 4.6
Light ghost gray Voltaic Blue 7.2
Light ghost grey Voltaic Blue 3.9
Light gray Thrall Flesh 5.6
Light gray Riven Green 4.8
Light gray Radiant Platinum 4.9
Light gray (IJA) Riven Green 5.4
Light gray (IJN) Radiant Platinum 5.3
Light green Necrotite Green 4.3
Light green Wurm Green 3.7
Light green (Luftwaffe) Gnarls Green 9.0
Light grey Pig Iron 7.6
Light gun metal Pig Iron 1.0
Light gun metal Pig Iron 3.5
Light metallic blue Trollblood Blue 3.2
Light sand Icy Yellow 7.5
Light sand Rucksack Tan 6.6
Light sea grey Ironhull Grey 10.7
Linoleum deck brown Basilisk Brown 3.1
Linoleum deck brown Sanguine Shadow 5.0
Linoleum deck brown.jpeg Bane Grey 3.7
Maroon Amethyst Rose 1.7
Matt black Asheth Grey 5.2
Matt white Morrow White 1.7
Medium blue Gravedigger Denim 3.9
Medium gray Pig Iron 5.5
Medium grey Riven Green 4.8
Medium sea gray Riven Green 4.5
Medium sea gray 2 Galvanized Steel 5.3
Medium sea gray 2 (RAF) Morrow White 1.7
Metallic black Greylord 5.5
Metallic black Greylord 6.8
Metallic blue Runeshot 3.1
Metallic blue Cygnar Blue Base 1.9
Metallic brown Bloodstone 4.3
Metallic gold 'Jack Bone 3.9
Metallic gray Pig Iron 3.7
Metallic gray Morrow White 1.7
Metallic green Iosan Green 2.5
Metallic grey Greatcoat Grey 5.3
Metallic orange Khador Red Highlight 6.3
Metallic orange Morrow White 1.7
Metallic red Ember Orange 4.5
Metallic silver Quick Silver 1.5
Mica blue Cygnar Blue Base 5.9
Mica blue Cygnar Blue Base 5.7
Mica red Skorne Red 4.8
Mica red Ember Orange 5.0
Mica silver Quick Silver 2.9
Mica silver Quick Silver 4.7
Mixing blue Exile Blue 3.9
Mixing red Ruddy Blush 6.6
Mixing yellow Sulfuric Yellow 3.3
NATO black Asheth Grey 4.7
NATO black Thamar Black 0.0
NATO black Asheth Grey 4.7
NATO brown Basilisk Brown 7.1
NATO brown Mud Rut 4.3
NATO brown Basilisk Brown 7.1
NATO green Gnarls Green 7.6
NATO green Eldritch Green 1.9
NATO green Gnarls Green 7.6
Navy blue Exile Blue 7.0
Neutral gray Ironhull Grey 5.5
Neutral grey Pig Iron 5.8
Ocean gray Greatcoat Grey 2.2
Ocean gray 2 Voltaic Blue 6.7
Ocean gray 2 (RAF) Morrow White 1.7
Olive drab Battle Dress Green 10.7
Olive drab Battle Dress Green 10.7
Olive drab Mage Hunter Green 5.3
Olive drab Battle Dress Green 10.7
Olive drab (JGSDF) Cryx Bane Base 7.7
Olive drab (JGSDF) Eldritch Green 1.9
Olive drab (JGSDF) Cryx Bane Base 8.2
Olive drab 2 Mage Hunter Green 6.4
Olive drab 2 Battle Dress Green 9.4
Olive green Cryx Bane Base 8.9
Olive green Gnarls Green 10.1
Orange Khador Red Highlight 5.6
Orange Inferno Orange 7.2
Park green Iosan Green 1.4
Park green Iosan Green 3.7
Pearl blue Cygnar Blue Base 5.2
Pearl blue Cygnar Blue Base 5.0
Pearl clear Morrow White 3.1
Pearl clear Menoth White Highlight 2.6
Pearl green Thrall Flesh 11.0
Pearl light blue Voltaic Blue 10.7
Pearl light red Troll Tongue 12.6
Pearl white Morrow White 1.7
Pearl white Menoth White Highlight 3.0
Pearl yellow Morrow White 1.7
Pink Troll Tongue 16.1
Pink Carnal Pink 18.8
Pure blue Stormguard Blue 3.8
Pure blue Morrow White 1.7
Pure metallic red Ember Orange 5.4
Pure metallic red Morrow White 1.7
Pure orange Khador Red Highlight 6.1
Pure orange Morrow White 1.7
Pure red Ember Orange 3.9
Pure red Ember Orange 4.2
Pure white Morrow White 1.7
Pure yellow Yellow Ink 2.9
Purple Blue Ink 7.0
Purple Blue Ink 7.0
RLM grey Armor Wash 3.7
Racing blue Cygnar Blue Base 5.2
Racing blue Exile Blue 9.1
Racing green Eldritch Green 8.9
Racing white Morrow White 1.7
Racing white Quick Silver 4.5
Red Ember Orange 4.2
Red brown Basilisk Brown 8.5
Red brown Basilisk Brown 8.5
Red brown 2 Morrow White 1.7
Red brown 2 Deathless Metal 4.7
Royal blue Exile Blue 3.8
Royal light gray Cold Steel 3.0
Royal light gray Cold Steel 3.0
Rubber black Morrow White 1.7
Rubber black Thamar Black 0.0
Rubber black Gravedigger Denim 5.9
Sea blue Gravedigger Denim 9.1
Semi gloss black Asheth Grey 5.2
Semi gloss black Thamar Black 1.6
Semi gloss black Asheth Grey 5.2
Semi gloss clear Morrow White 2.1
Semi gloss clear Morrow White 1.7
Semi-gloss bright gun metal Morrow White 1.7
Semi-gloss clear Morrow White 1.7
Silver Quick Silver 3.7
Silver leaf Quick Silver 4.7
Sky Hammerfall Khaki 8.2
Sky blue Trollblood Base 10.4
Sky grey Cold Steel 5.5
Smoke Ironhull Grey 5.7
Smoke Cold Steel 4.2
Smoke Devout White 10.8
Sparkling silver Quick Silver 4.4
Tan Lyossan Flesh 1.7
Titanium gold Icy Yellow 3.6
Titanium gold Hammerfall Khaki 5.1
Titanium gold Icy Yellow 2.8
Titanium silver Radiant Platinum 3.1
Titanium silver Menoth White Highlight 5.2
Titanium silver Galvanized Steel 4.3
White Morrow White 1.7
White Morrow White 1.7
Wooden deck tan Icy Yellow 4.5
Wooden deck tan Caspian Flesh Wash 3.5
Wooden deck tan Beast Hide 6.9
Yellow Yellow Ink 2.0
Yellow green Wurm Green 8.8
Yellow-brown (DAK 1941) Lyossan Flesh 2.4

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