Paint Equivalents

N3 Neutral Gray

Golden · Heavy Body · 1443

#3A3935 · L*23.9 a*-0.4 b*2.6

The closest match to Golden N3 Neutral Gray in every other range, nearest first.

Golden N3 Neutral Gray is a dark grey. 4 ranges carry a near-perfect stand-in for it, the closest being Mr. Paint Dark Green Camo FS34084 at ΔE 0.3. 7 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 Golden N3 Neutral Gray?

Mr. Paint Dark Green Camo FS34084 is the closest equivalent to Golden N3 Neutral Gray in any other range, at ΔE 0.3 — an indistinguishable substitute. Next nearest: Mission Models Gun Metal (ΔE 1.5) and AK Interactive Dunkelgrau Shadow (ΔE 1.6).

What is the Vallejo alternative to Golden N3 Neutral Gray?

The nearest Vallejo paint is Black Glaze, ΔE 2.6 — a very close substitute. The full Golden to Vallejo conversion chart lists the rest.

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N3 Neutral Gray equivalent in Mr. Paint

  1. A Dark Green Camo FS34084 Mr Paint MRP-433 ΔE 0.3 · indistinguishable
  2. A Graphite Metallic Mr Paint MRP-272 ΔE 1.3 · near-perfect

Full Golden → Mr. Paint conversion chart

N3 Neutral Gray equivalent in Mission Models

  1. A Gun Metal MMM-010 ΔE 1.5 · near-perfect
  2. C Anthrazitgrau RAL 7016 (Anthracite Grey) MMP-140 ΔE 3.8 · close

Full Golden → Mission Models conversion chart

N3 Neutral Gray equivalent in AK Interactive

  1. A Dunkelgrau Shadow AFV AK161 ΔE 1.6 · near-perfect
  2. B Rubber / Tires General AK720 ΔE 2.6 · very close

Full Golden → AK Interactive conversion chart

N3 Neutral Gray equivalent in Duncan

  1. A Doom Death Black Wave 1 ΔE 1.6 · near-perfect
  2. C Death Reaper Wave 1 ΔE 4.6 · close

Full Golden → Duncan conversion chart

N3 Neutral Gray equivalent in Scale75

  1. B Winter Shadow Warfront Range ΔE 2.0 · very close
  2. B Eclipse Grey Scale Color Range ΔE 2.7 · very close

Full Golden → Scale75 conversion chart

N3 Neutral Gray equivalent in Apple Barrel

  1. B Pewter Grey Colors 20580 ΔE 2.3 · very close
  2. C Dark Gray Gloss™ 20366 ΔE 4.7 · close

Full Golden → Apple Barrel conversion chart

N3 Neutral Gray equivalent in Green Stuff World

  1. B Ranger Green Acrylic Colors ΔE 2.3 · very close
  2. C Blackroot Grey Acrylic Colors ΔE 4.3 · close

Full Golden → Green Stuff World conversion chart

N3 Neutral Gray equivalent in FolkArt

  1. B Boulder Acrylic Colors 4624 ΔE 2.5 · very close
  2. C Licorice Acrylic Colors 938 ΔE 3.8 · close

Full Golden → FolkArt conversion chart

N3 Neutral Gray equivalent in Vallejo

  1. B Black Glaze Model Color 70.855 ΔE 2.6 · very close
  2. B UK Bronze Green Surface Primer 70.607 ΔE 2.8 · very close

Full Golden → Vallejo conversion chart

N3 Neutral Gray equivalent in Warcolours

  1. B Metallic Black Metallic paints ΔE 2.6 · very close
  2. C Warm Grey 4 Layer paints ΔE 4.6 · close

Full Golden → Warcolours conversion chart

N3 Neutral Gray equivalent in Reaper

  1. B Grey Liner Master Series Paints Core Colors 9065 ΔE 2.7 · very close
  2. C Carbon Grey Master Series Paints Core Colors 9318 ΔE 3.7 · close

Full Golden → Reaper conversion chart

N3 Neutral Gray equivalent in Liquitex

  1. B Muted Grey Heavy Body Acrylix 505 ΔE 3.0 · very close
  2. D Mars Black Heavy Body Acrylix 276 ΔE 8.1 · similar

Full Golden → Liquitex conversion chart

N3 Neutral Gray in the remaining ranges

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

RangeNearest paintDistance
Foundry #433F3C Charcoal Black Paint System ΔE 3.1
Tamiya #333333 Black Spray ΔE 3.2
Mr. Hobby #3E3A39 Rlm66 Black Gray Mr Color ΔE 3.2
Citadel #45413B Skavenblight Dinge Layer ΔE 3.4
Humbrol #323232 White Matt Aerosol Sprays ΔE 3.4
Monument #404240 PRIME Black Brown Pro Acrylic Primer ΔE 3.5
The Army Painter #363231 Onyx Skin Skin Tones Paint Set ΔE 3.8
Mig #323335 Dunkelgrau Shadow Acrylics ΔE 4.4
Tom Color #444643 Dark Black Green Ijn ΔE 4.5
P3 #48453D Greylord Privateer Press Formula P3 ΔE 4.6
Coat d'Arms #3B413F Angel Green Fantasy Range ΔE 4.6
Italeri #323B3B Graugrün RLM 74 Acrylic Paint ΔE 5.7
Creature #292D2F Dark Neutral Grey Monument Pro Acryl ΔE 6.0
Revell #424335 Olive Yellow Email Color - Matt ΔE 6.3
Arteza #3B3A40 Payne's Gray Acrylic Premium Paints ΔE 6.7
Kimera Kolors #2D2A2D Carbon Black Pure Pigments ΔE 7.0
Acrilex #52483B Sépia Paints ΔE 8.2
Turbo Dork #5D6164 Black Ice ΔE 14.3

Nearest colours inside Golden

  1. A Bone Black Heavy Body ΔE 0.7 · indistinguishable
  2. B Carbon Black OPEN Acrylics ΔE 2.0 · very close
  3. C N2 Neutral Gray Heavy Body ΔE 3.9 · close
  4. C Raw Umber Heavy Body ΔE 4.0 · close
  5. C Graphite Gray Heavy Body ΔE 4.2 · close
  6. C Raw Umber OPEN Acrylics ΔE 4.5 · close

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