Tamiya to P3 paint conversion chart

Every Tamiya paint with its closest P3 equivalent, matched by CIEDE2000. 298 rows, sorted by name.

156 of the 298 Tamiya colours below have an equivalent in P3 within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 50 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 4.8. The 142 gaps are not spread evenly: 30 of them are greens, so that is the corner of the Tamiya range P3 does not answer.

How close is close enough? Reading the ΔE column

Moving a whole recipe across takes more than one pot. These search the boxed sets each range is sold in.

Shop P3 setShop Tamiya set

Converting a one-coat range? Contrast, Speedpaint and Xpress rows need a tighter bracket than the rest of this table

Reverse: P3 → Tamiya

The reverse chart is a different answer, not this one upside down: how much of a range another really covers, in both directions