Paint Equivalents

Warcolours to Foundry paint conversion chart

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

106 of the 178 Warcolours colours below have an equivalent in Foundry within ΔE 5, the distance at which a substitution stops being obvious on a painted model. 32 sit within ΔE 2 and are interchangeable outright. Across the whole range the typical distance is ΔE 4.1. The 72 gaps are not spread evenly: 17 of them are blues, so that is the corner of the Warcolours range Foundry does not answer.

WarcoloursFoundryΔE
Black Charcoal Black Shade 0.0
Black Charcoal Black Shade 0.0
Black Charcoal Black Shade 0.0
Blue 1 Vivid Blue Light 8.2
Blue 2 Union Trouser Blue 3.9
Blue 3 French Hussar Sky Blue Shade 5.1
Blue 4 Sky Blue Shade 7.1
Blue 5 Prussian Blue Light 3.7
Blue Glaze Sky Blue 2.6
Blue Grey 1 French Hussar Sky Blue 9.9
Blue Grey 2 French Hussar Sky Blue Light 5.8
Blue Grey 3 Sky Blue Light 6.0
Blue Grey 4 Union Trouser Blue Shade 3.1
Blue Grey 5 Union Blue Shade 2.4
Brown 1 Native American Flesh 3.5
Brown 2 Bright Red Shade 3.9
Brown 3 Bay Brown 3.3
Brown 4 Peaty Brown 2.7
Brown 5 Quagmire Shade 5.4
Brown Glaze South American Flesh Light 4.0
Burnt Sienna Scarlet 4.8
Cool Grey 1 Leather & Metal Washes Light 2.0
Cool Grey 2 Gun Metal 2.3
Cool Grey 3 Slate Grey Light 3.0
Cool Grey 4 Dark African Flesh Shade 1.3
Cool Grey 5 Blackened Barrel 0.0
Dark Green Bright Bottle Green Light 5.2
Emerald 1 Bright Green Light 8.5
Emerald 2 Bright Green Light 4.9
Emerald 3 Bright Green 6.9
Emerald 4 Bright Green Shade 4.5
Emerald 5 Bright Bottle Green 7.4
Flesh 1 Shiny 1.3
Flesh 2 Base Sand Light 2.5
Flesh 3 Expert Flesh Ultra Light 1.3
Flesh 4 Nipple Pink Shade 6.9
Flesh 5 British Denison Tan 1.2
Fluorescent Green Lemon Light 18.2
Fluorescent Orange Orange Light 0.4
Fluorescent Pink Shadow Pink Light 9.5
Fluorescent Yellow Lemon 8.9
Green 1 Lemon Light 9.4
Green 2 French Dragoon Green Light 20.2
Green 3 Bright Green 10.5
Green 4 Bright Green 2.7
Green 5 Bright Green Shade 3.5
Green Glaze French Dragoon Green Light 17.2
Grey Slate Grey Light 3.0
Marine 1 Vivid Blue Light 1.6
Marine 2 Vivid Blue 3.6
Marine 3 Bavarian Cornflower Blue 4.4
Marine 4 French Hussar Sky Blue Shade 2.8
Marine 5 Union Blue 5.8
Metallic Antique Gold Raw Linen 6.1
Metallic Black Blackened Barrel Light 1.6
Metallic Black Copper Teracotta Shade 4.6
Metallic Blue Union Blue Light 14.4
Metallic Bright Gold Lemon Shade 3.3
Metallic Brown Raw Linen 2.5
Metallic Choco Butter Fudge 4.8
Metallic Copper Madder Red Light 8.0
Metallic Crimson Native American Flesh 7.3
Metallic Dark Copper Bay Brown 4.0
Metallic Dark Green Bright Green Light 14.2
Metallic Emerald French Gun Olive Green Shade 5.1
Metallic Green Lemon Light 7.8
Metallic Lemon Chestnut Light 2.4
Metallic Pale Gold Burning Gold Shade 5.0
Metallic Pewter Slate Grey Light 3.0
Metallic Pink Shadow Pink Light 7.2
Metallic Red Bright Red 2.8
Metallic Sand Lemon Light 4.1
Metallic Silver Arctic Grey Shade 1.6
Metallic Sky Bavarian Cornflower Blue Light 5.1
Metallic Turquoise Bright Green Light 10.2
Metallic Ultramarine Violet Light 11.3
Metallic Violet Royal Purple 12.7
Metallic White Armour Light 2.2
Metallic Yellow Raw Linen Shade 4.2
Ochre 1 Burnished Copper Light 3.0
Ochre 2 Ochre Light 2.5
Ochre 3 Butter Fudge Light 3.7
Ochre 4 Ochre Shade 4.8
Ochre 5 Gold Shade 7.9
Olive 1 Lemon Light 2.5
Olive 2 Raw Linen Light 9.6
Olive 3 Phlegm Green Light 7.1
Olive 4 Phlegm Green 6.4
Olive 5 Phlegm Green Shade 7.1
One-coat Baby-blue Sky Blue 7.0
One-coat Beige Ochre Light 3.9
One-coat Black Charcoal Black Shade 0.0
One-coat Blue Union Blue Light 16.2
One-coat Green Bright Green 10.7
One-coat Magenta Shadow Pink Light 9.4
One-coat Ochre Butter Fudge Light 3.7
One-coat Orange Orange Shade 6.0
One-coat Pink Shadow Pink Light 10.7
One-coat Purple Shadow Pink 2.3
One-coat Red British Redcoat 1.8
One-coat Red-orange Scarlet Light 3.8
One-coat Turquoise Bright Green Light 9.1
One-coat Violet Stone 14.8
One-coat Yellow Lemon 1.9
One-coat Yellow-green Austrian Gun Ochre 15.4
Orange Scarlet Light 5.4
Orange 1 Buff Leather Light 1.0
Orange 2 Ochre 3.0
Orange 3 Orange Shade 4.3
Orange 4 Scarlet Light 3.6
Orange 5 Expert Flesh Deep Shade 5.0
Pink 1 Nipple Pink 14.0
Pink 2 Shadow Pink Light 9.0
Pink 3 Wine Stain Red 5.4
Pink 4 Deep Mauve Light 6.6
Pink 5 Deep Maroon Shade 4.7
Pink Glaze Wine Stain Red Light 9.2
Purple 1 Nipple Pink Light 14.9
Purple 2 Shadow Pink Light 4.6
Purple 3 Shadow Pink 2.3
Purple 4 Deep Maroon 1.9
Purple 5 Musket Stock Brown Shade 5.2
Raw Sienna Butter Fudge 3.0
Red British Redcoat 1.0
Red 1 British Redcoat 4.4
Red 2 Madder Red Light 4.1
Red 3 British Redcoat Shade 1.7
Red 4 Bright Red Shade 5.7
Red 5 Madder Red Shade 5.0
Red Glaze Nipple Pink 6.8
Sepia Chestnut 1.8
Transparent Black Blackened Barrel Light 4.1
Transparent Blue Prussian Gun Mid Blue Light 3.7
Transparent Blue Grey Rebel Grey 2.5
Transparent Brown North African Flesh 2.4
Transparent Cool Grey Slate Grey Light 1.4
Transparent Emerald Cadaverous Green Shade 5.4
Transparent Flesh British Equipment Tan 6.1
Transparent Green Cadaverous Green Shade 4.1
Transparent Marine Sky Blue Light 6.2
Transparent Ochre Rawhide 3.6
Transparent Olive Soviet Helmet Green Shade 3.8
Transparent Orange British Redcoat Light 2.3
Transparent Pink Shadow Pink Light 7.5
Transparent Purple Shadow Pink Light 3.3
Transparent Red Nipple Pink Shade 3.8
Transparent Turquoise Union Trouser Blue 6.6
Transparent Violet Royal Purple Light 7.2
Transparent Warm Grey Armour Shade 3.1
Transparent White Gun Metal Light 1.3
Transparent Yellow Lemon 3.8
Turquoise 1 Tomb Blue Light 16.0
Turquoise 2 Teal Blue Light 7.0
Turquoise 3 Union Trouser Blue 5.0
Turquoise 4 Teal Blue Shade 4.2
Turquoise 5 French Chasseur A Cheval Green Shade 4.4
Ultramarine Union Blue Light 15.7
Vermilion Scarlet Shade 3.0
Violet 1 French Hussar Sky Blue 16.0
Violet 2 Violet Light 10.3
Violet 3 Royal Purple Shade 13.1
Violet 4 Royal Purple Shade 7.6
Violet 5 Royal Purple Shade 7.9
Warm Grey 1 Arctic Grey 3.6
Warm Grey 2 British Equipment Tan Light 3.9
Warm Grey 3 American Green 1.9
Warm Grey 4 Granite Shade 1.3
Warm Grey 5 Blackened Barrel 2.0
White White 0.0
White White 0.0
White White 0.0
Yellow Orange Light 1.1
Yellow 1 Bone yard Light 2.5
Yellow 2 Lemon 1.9
Yellow 3 Yellow 0.8
Yellow 4 Orange Light 1.6
Yellow 5 Butter Fudge Light 3.6
Yellow Glaze Lemon Light 3.1

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