Paint Equivalents

Warcolours to Citadel paint conversion chart

Every Warcolours paint with its closest Citadel equivalent, matched by CIEDE2000. 178 rows, sorted by name.

113 of the 178 Warcolours colours below have an equivalent in Citadel within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 39 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 4.1. The 65 gaps are not spread evenly: 15 of them are pink-reds, so that is the corner of the Warcolours range Citadel does not answer.

WarcoloursCitadelΔE
Black Abaddon Black 0.0
Black Abaddon Black 0.0
Black Abaddon Black 0.0
Blue 1 Ice Blue 3.8
Blue 2 Imrik Blue 4.8
Blue 3 Ultramarine Blue 0.8
Blue 4 Altdorf Guard Blue 3.8
Blue 5 Midnight Blue 2.5
Blue Glaze Chronus Blue 1.2
Blue Grey 1 Necron Compound 9.4
Blue Grey 2 Blue Horror 3.7
Blue Grey 3 Fenrisian Grey 6.1
Blue Grey 4 Caledor Sky 5.7
Blue Grey 5 Asurmen Blue Wash 4.2
Brown 1 Martian Ironcrust 4.1
Brown 2 Astorath Red 2.4
Brown 3 Beaten Copper 5.1
Brown 4 Gorthor Brown 1.7
Brown 5 Adeptus Battlegrey 7.2
Brown Glaze Tallarn Flesh 4.6
Burnt Sienna Macharius Solar Orange 5.0
Cool Grey 1 Fortress Grey 2.8
Cool Grey 2 Grey Seer 1.7
Cool Grey 3 Leadbelcher 1.5
Cool Grey 4 Eshin Grey 2.3
Cool Grey 5 Black Templar 0.6
Dark Green Warp Lightning 3.9
Emerald 1 Waywatcher Green 11.7
Emerald 2 Waywatcher Green 8.5
Emerald 3 Sybarite Green 2.7
Emerald 4 Snot Green 1.0
Emerald 5 Dark Angels Green 3.6
Flesh 1 Bleached Bone 10.7
Flesh 2 Bleached Bone 4.8
Flesh 3 Elf Flesh 6.9
Flesh 4 Martian Ironcrust 7.9
Flesh 5 Balthasar Gold 4.9
Fluorescent Green Bilious Green 14.2
Fluorescent Orange Golden Yellow 1.3
Fluorescent Pink Magenta Ink 8.9
Fluorescent Yellow Flash Gitz Yellow 6.8
Green 1 Dorn Yellow 8.0
Green 2 Bilious Green 14.8
Green 3 Moot Green 3.2
Green 4 Hexwraith Flame 3.0
Green 5 Warpstone Glow 3.0
Green Glaze Bilious Green 12.5
Grey Leadbelcher 1.5
Marine 1 Space Wolves Grey 3.2
Marine 2 Guilliman Blue 5.4
Marine 3 Teclis Blue 3.8
Marine 4 Ultramarine Blue 4.4
Marine 5 Stegadon Scale Green 3.6
Metallic Antique Gold Armageddon Dust 3.2
Metallic Black Skavenblight Dinge 5.2
Metallic Black Copper Mournfang Brown 3.3
Metallic Blue The Fang 14.1
Metallic Bright Gold Armageddon Dust 2.6
Metallic Brown Armageddon Dust 1.9
Metallic Choco Vomit Brown 3.9
Metallic Copper Macharius Solar Orange 3.9
Metallic Crimson Bloodletter 8.5
Metallic Dark Copper Calthan Brown 1.9
Metallic Dark Green Bilious Green 9.3
Metallic Emerald Goblin Green 3.7
Metallic Green Dorn Yellow 7.6
Metallic Lemon Flesh Wash 2.3
Metallic Pale Gold Armageddon Dunes 4.5
Metallic Pewter Astrogranite 1.0
Metallic Pink Carroburg Crimson 12.0
Metallic Red Wild Rider Red 1.8
Metallic Sand Dorn Yellow 3.0
Metallic Silver Leadbelcher 0.3
Metallic Sky Chronus Blue 4.9
Metallic Turquoise Waywatcher Green 8.2
Metallic Ultramarine Genestealer Purple 14.2
Metallic Violet Leviathan Purple Wash 6.4
Metallic White Wrack White 2.4
Metallic Yellow Nurgles Rot 5.6
Ochre 1 Wraithbone 4.8
Ochre 2 Skullcrusher Brass 4.8
Ochre 3 Zamesi Desert 2.0
Ochre 4 Zamesi Desert 4.3
Ochre 5 Iyanden Darksun 4.8
Olive 1 Lamenters Yellow 1.0
Olive 2 Dorn Yellow 9.0
Olive 3 Ogryn Camo 5.7
Olive 4 Militarum Green 5.9
Olive 5 Castellan Green 8.8
One-coat Baby-blue Chronus Blue 7.5
One-coat Beige Skullcrusher Brass 3.9
One-coat Black Abaddon Black 0.0
One-coat Blue Liche Purple 15.5
One-coat Green Moot Green 3.7
One-coat Magenta Magenta Ink 8.7
One-coat Ochre Zamesi Desert 2.0
One-coat Orange Fiery Orange 2.2
One-coat Pink Tentacle Pink 14.1
One-coat Purple Warlock Purple 5.4
One-coat Red Angron Red Clear 3.6
One-coat Red-orange Blazing Orange 4.5
One-coat Turquoise Nihilakh Oxide 7.0
One-coat Violet Kakophoni Purple 16.4
One-coat Yellow Bad Moon Yellow 0.6
One-coat Yellow-green Bilious Green 10.4
Orange Ryza Rust 2.8
Orange 1 Cassandora Yellow 2.2
Orange 2 Auric Armour Gold 3.6
Orange 3 Pyroclast Orange Clear 1.4
Orange 4 Blazing Orange 0.2
Orange 5 Angron Red Clear 5.3
Pink 1 Changeling Pink 5.1
Pink 2 Tentacle Pink 7.6
Pink 3 Emperor Children 6.8
Pink 4 Scab Red 3.0
Pink 5 Barak-Nar Burgundy 7.9
Pink Glaze Changeling Pink 8.5
Purple 1 Changeling Pink 7.2
Purple 2 Carroburg Crimson 10.7
Purple 3 Warlock Purple 5.4
Purple 4 Screamer Pink 6.8
Purple 5 Barak-Nar Burgundy 10.3
Raw Sienna Iyanden Yellow 1.8
Red Angron Red Clear 3.9
Red 1 Angron Red Clear 1.5
Red 2 Evil Sunz Scarlet 4.4
Red 3 Mechrite Red 4.5
Red 4 Blood Angels Red 3.2
Red 5 Flesh Tearers Red 3.3
Red Glaze Dwarf Flesh 8.5
Sepia Skrag Brown 2.1
Transparent Black Basilicanum Grey 2.1
Transparent Blue Guilliman Blue 3.3
Transparent Blue Grey Warpfiend Grey 4.6
Transparent Brown Deathclaw Brown 4.9
Transparent Cool Grey Astrogranite 1.4
Transparent Emerald Jade Green 4.3
Transparent Flesh Commando Khaki 2.0
Transparent Green Skarsnik Green 4.8
Transparent Marine Fenrisian Grey 7.0
Transparent Ochre Desert Yellow 2.5
Transparent Olive Camo Green 2.3
Transparent Orange Lugganath Orange 4.1
Transparent Pink Carroburg Crimson 9.2
Transparent Purple Carroburg Crimson 6.1
Transparent Red Martian Ironcrust 8.2
Transparent Turquoise Celestra Grey 10.0
Transparent Violet Kakophoni Purple 6.2
Transparent Warm Grey Leadbelcher 3.9
Transparent White 'Ardcoat 2.5
Transparent Yellow Dorn Yellow 0.7
Turquoise 1 Baharroth Blue 11.5
Turquoise 2 Baharroth Blue 8.6
Turquoise 3 Hawk Turquoise 6.5
Turquoise 4 Sons of Horus Green 1.0
Turquoise 5 Incubi Darkness 3.4
Ultramarine Liche Purple 15.2
Vermilion Mechrite Red 2.7
Violet 1 Dechala Lilac 10.2
Violet 2 Kakophoni Purple 13.1
Violet 3 Leviathan Purple Wash 3.8
Violet 4 Imperial Purple 7.4
Violet 5 Shyish Purple 3.3
Warm Grey 1 Nuln Oil Gloss 5.0
Warm Grey 2 Agrax Earthshade 2.4
Warm Grey 3 Iron Warriors 3.5
Warm Grey 4 Skavenblight Dinge 1.8
Warm Grey 5 Deathshroud Clear 1.0
White Corax White 0.0
White Corax White 0.0
White Corax White 0.0
Yellow Golden Yellow 0.1
Yellow 1 Longbeard Grey 7.4
Yellow 2 Bad Moon Yellow 0.6
Yellow 3 Sunburst Yellow 0.5
Yellow 4 Golden Yellow 0.7
Yellow 5 Bronzed Flesh 4.7
Yellow Glaze Dorn Yellow 0.5

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