Castle Grey
The Army Painter · Warpaints · WP1407
#8D887F · L*56.9 a*0.2 b*5.5
The closest match to The Army Painter Castle Grey in every other range, nearest first.
The Army Painter Castle Grey is a mid-toned, muted orange. Only one range matches it closely enough to swap without thinking: AK Interactive RAL 7030 Stone (steingrau) Grey, ΔE 2.0. 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 The Army Painter Castle Grey?
AK Interactive RAL 7030 Stone (steingrau) Grey is the closest equivalent to The Army Painter Castle Grey in any other range, at ΔE 2.0 — a near-perfect substitute. Next nearest: Monument Matt Cexwish Bone (ΔE 2.4) and FolkArt Silver Sterling (ΔE 2.6).
What is the Vallejo alternative to The Army Painter Castle Grey?
The nearest Vallejo paint is AMT-1 Light Grey Brown, ΔE 4.2 — a close substitute. The full The Army Painter to Vallejo conversion chart lists the rest.
Shop The Army Painter Castle Grey Shop AK Interactive RAL 7030 Stone (steingrau) Grey Shop AK Interactive Air set
Castle Grey equivalent in AK Interactive
- A RAL 7030 Stone (steingrau) Grey Air AK2175 ΔE 2.0 · near-perfect
- B Steingrau-stone Grey RAL 7030 10ml Real Colors - Air RC213 ΔE 2.2 · very close
Castle Grey equivalent in Monument
- B Matt Cexwish Bone Pro Signature Series S23 ΔE 2.4 · very close
- D White Gold Pro Acrylic Paints 029 ΔE 7.2 · similar
Castle Grey equivalent in FolkArt
- B Silver Sterling Metallics 662 ΔE 2.6 · very close
- C Honeycomb Acrylic Colors 942 ΔE 4.3 · close
Castle Grey equivalent in Warcolours
- B Transparent Warm Grey Transparent paints ΔE 2.7 · very close
- D Transparent Flesh Transparent paints ΔE 5.4 · similar
Castle Grey equivalent in Reaper
- B Adamantine Master Series Paints Pathfinder 89556 ΔE 2.7 · very close
- C Tarnished Steel Master Series Paints Core Colors 9206 ΔE 3.8 · close
Castle Grey equivalent in Mr. Paint
- B Duraluminium Mr Paint MRP-008 ΔE 2.9 · very close
- C Light Mud Mr Paint MRP-350 ΔE 4.2 · close
Castle Grey equivalent in Duncan
- B Dwarven Iron Wave 2 ΔE 2.9 · very close
- D Griffon Claw Wave 1 ΔE 5.5 · similar
Castle Grey equivalent in Scale75
- B Rainy Gray Scale Color Range ΔE 3.3 · very close
- C Graphite Scale Color Range ΔE 3.6 · close
Castle Grey equivalent in Revell
- C Stone Grey Email Color - Matt ΔE 3.6 · close
- D Light Olive Email Color - Matt ΔE 7.1 · similar
Castle Grey equivalent in P3
- C Drake Grey Privateer Press Formula P3 ΔE 3.7 · close
- D Cryx Bane Highlight Privateer Press Formula P3 ΔE 5.0 · similar
Castle Grey equivalent in Mission Models
- C Transparent Smoke MMP-170 ΔE 4.2 · close
- D Dark Aluminum MMM-007 ΔE 6.1 · similar
Castle Grey equivalent in Vallejo
- C AMT-1 Light Grey Brown Model Air 71.320 ΔE 4.2 · close
- C Light Rubber Panzer Aces 70.305 ΔE 4.4 · close
Castle Grey in the remaining ranges
These ranges have nothing close. The nearest they offer is listed anyway.
| Range | Nearest paint | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italeri | #898C85 | Aluminium Acrylic Paint | ΔE 4.3 |
| Foundry | #868779 | Granite Light Paint System | ΔE 4.6 |
| Tamiya | #8F918C | Smoke Acrylics Mini Gloss | ΔE 4.7 |
| Mig | #827B71 | Grey Brown Amt-1 Acrylics | ΔE 4.8 |
| Citadel | #868686 | Leadbelcher Spray | ΔE 5.0 |
| Green Stuff World | #8C8C8C | Moonstone Grey Acrylic Colors | ΔE 5.1 |
| Tom Color | #8B908C | FS 36314 | ΔE 5.8 |
| Coat d'Arms | #838270 | Faded Khaki World War II Range | ΔE 5.8 |
| Golden | #979392 | N6 Neutral Gray Heavy Body | ΔE 5.8 |
| Mr. Hobby | #877E69 | IDF Gray2 (-1981 Golan) Mr Color | ΔE 6.3 |
| Apple Barrel | #868F8A | Granite Gray Colors | ΔE 7.2 |
| Humbrol | #827773 | Dark Camouflage Grey Satin Acrylics - Gloss | ΔE 7.6 |
| Kimera Kolors | #757973 | Iron Hue Michal Pisarski Signature Set | ΔE 7.9 |
| Liquitex | #9C9E9D | Iridescent Bright Silver Heavy Body Acrylix | ΔE 8.5 |
| Acrilex | #A89A82 | Concreto Paints | ΔE 9.0 |
| Arteza | #928E95 | Gray Acrylic Premium Paints | ΔE 9.2 |
| Turbo Dork | #757E82 | Six Shooter | ΔE 9.8 |
| Creature | #AC9C83 | White Gold Monument Pro Acryl | ΔE 9.9 |
Nearest colours inside The Army Painter
- B Polished Silver Speedpaint Set 2.0 ΔE 2.6 · very close
- B Lich Skin D&D Nolzur's Marvelous Pigments ΔE 3.3 · very close
- C Grey Castle Warpaints Fanatic ΔE 4.5 · close
- C Plate Mail Metal Warpaints Primer ΔE 4.6 · close
- C Gun Metal Warpaints Primer ΔE 5.0 · close
- D Fairy Dust Warpaints Air ΔE 5.1 · similar
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