Paint Equivalents

Light Umber

Creature · Monument Pro Acryl · MPA-018

#663820 · L*28.8 a*18.0 b*23.6

The closest match to Creature Light Umber in every other range, nearest first.

Creature Light Umber is a dark, moderately saturated red. 5 ranges carry a near-perfect stand-in for it, the closest being Scale75 Dark Earth at ΔE 1.2. 13 of the 30 other ranges have nothing within ΔE 5, so a substitution from those will read as a different colour.

What the ΔE numbers below mean, and how close a match has to be

What is the closest equivalent to Creature Light Umber?

Scale75 Dark Earth is the closest equivalent to Creature Light Umber in any other range, at ΔE 1.2 — a near-perfect substitute. Next nearest: Vallejo Brown Engine Soot (Matt) (ΔE 1.7) and Humbrol German Camouflage Red (ΔE 1.7).

What is the Vallejo alternative to Creature Light Umber?

The nearest Vallejo paint is Brown Engine Soot (Matt), ΔE 1.7 — a near-perfect substitute. The full Creature to Vallejo conversion chart lists the rest.

Shop Creature Light Umber Shop Scale75 Dark Earth Shop Scale75 Warfront Range set

Light Umber equivalent in Scale75

  1. A Dark Earth Warfront Range ΔE 1.2 · near-perfect
  2. C Burnt Skin Artist Range ΔE 4.3 · close

Light Umber equivalent in Vallejo

  1. A Brown Engine Soot (Matt) Mecha Color 69.818 ΔE 1.7 · near-perfect
  2. B Grunge Brown Game Air 76.115 ΔE 2.8 · very close

Light Umber equivalent in Humbrol

  1. A German Camouflage Red Acrylics - Matt 160 ΔE 1.7 · near-perfect
  2. D Chocolate Acrylics - Matt 98 ΔE 8.2 · similar

Light Umber equivalent in Foundry

  1. A Spearshaft Shade Paint System 13A ΔE 1.8 · near-perfect
  2. B Dusky Flesh Shade Paint System 6A ΔE 2.0 · very close

Light Umber equivalent in AK Interactive

  1. A Nº8 Earth Red (fs30117) AFV (3rd Gen) AK11338 ΔE 2.0 · near-perfect
  2. B RAL 8012 Rotbraun AFV AK717 ΔE 3.1 · very close

Light Umber equivalent in The Army Painter

  1. B Talos Bronze Speedpaint Set 2.0 ΔE 2.2 · very close
  2. B Dirt Spatter Warpaints WP1416 ΔE 2.3 · very close

Light Umber equivalent in Mr. Paint

  1. B Copper Mr Paint - Aqua Colors MRP-A021 ΔE 2.4 · very close
  2. C IJNAF H2 Camouflage Brown Mr Paint MRP-426 ΔE 4.1 · close

Light Umber equivalent in Mig

  1. B Red Leather Acrylics AMIG0133 ΔE 2.6 · very close
  2. B Clay Brown Acrylics AMIG0079 ΔE 3.0 · very close

Light Umber equivalent in FolkArt

  1. B Burnt Sienna Pure™ Artist Pigment 7107 ΔE 2.9 · very close
  2. C Teddy Bear Brown Acrylic Colors 417 ΔE 3.6 · close

Light Umber equivalent in Citadel

  1. B Gore-Grunta Fur Contrast ΔE 3.3 · very close
  2. D Terracotta Foundation (discontinued) ΔE 5.3 · similar

Light Umber equivalent in Reaper

  1. B Mwangi Brown Master Series Paints Pathfinder 89538 ΔE 3.3 · very close
  2. C Saddle Brown Master Series Paints Bones 9428 ΔE 4.8 · close

Light Umber equivalent in Mission Models

  1. C Signalbraun RAL 8002 MMP-141 ΔE 3.8 · close
  2. D NATO Brown MMP-033 ΔE 5.5 · similar

Light Umber in the remaining ranges

These ranges have nothing close. The nearest they offer is listed anyway.

RangeNearest paintDistance
Green Stuff World #642D0F Amberglow Dip Dipping Inks ΔE 3.9
Tom Color #673222 Oxide Brown ΔE 4.0
P3 #76412B Basilisk Brown Privateer Press Formula P3 ΔE 4.2
Coat d'Arms #59371C Wood Brown Military Range ΔE 4.5
Golden #7A4029 Burnt Sienna Fluid ΔE 4.9
Tamiya #784629 Linoleum deck brown Acrylics Mini Flat ΔE 5.2
Warcolours #793C2A Metallic Dark Copper Metallic paints ΔE 5.5
Arteza #664632 Pearl Deep Brown Acrylic Pearl Paints ΔE 5.7
Mr. Hobby #6A4832 Dust Brown Aqueous Hobby Color ΔE 5.8
Liquitex #724623 Iridescent Rich Bronze Heavy Body Acrylix ΔE 5.8
Duncan #644534 Spartan Bronze Wave 1 ΔE 6.0
Apple Barrel #4F3220 Milk Chocolate Multi-Surface Satin Acrylic Paints ΔE 6.3
Monument #674137 Dark Flesh Pro Acrylic Paints ΔE 6.6
Kimera Kolors #65271D Royal Brown Expansion Set 1 ΔE 7.5
Revell #6C312B Reddish Brown Email Color - Matt ΔE 8.2
Acrilex #47321B Rústico Paints ΔE 9.8
Italeri #843630 Marrone Mimetico Acrylic Paint ΔE 10.5
Turbo Dork #805D49 Death By ΔE 12.4

Nearest colours inside Creature

  1. D Bronze Monument Pro Acryl ΔE 9.5 · similar
  2. E Burnt Orange Monument Pro Acryl ΔE 10.8 · far
  3. E Burnt Red Monument Pro Acryl ΔE 11.2 · far
  4. E Shadow Flesh Monument Pro Acryl ΔE 11.9 · far
  5. E Red Monument Pro Acryl Transparent ΔE 13.8 · far
  6. E Dark Umber Monument Pro Acryl ΔE 14.2 · far

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