01 / ReferenceHobby paint converter & mix bench

Match any paint.
Mix across any brand.

Pick a paint from Citadel, Vallejo, Tamiya, Mr. Color, SMS, Army Painter, AK Interactive, Scale75, or Reaper. Chromabench finds the closest cross-brand equivalents and builds multi-brand mix recipes so you can keep working with what's on your bench.

Brands
9
Paints indexed
2249
Perceptual model
CIE LAB
Mix space
Linear sRGB
02 — Section

The bench

Search, match, mix.
ASource paint
Citadel · Base · Mephiston Red
Mephiston Red
BClosest cross-brand matches
Top 10 per brand, ranked by ΔE (CIE76). Lower is closer.
Vallejo10 matches
  • Red RLM23
    Model Air · 71.003
    ΔE2.7
  • Flat Red
    Model Color · 70.957
    ΔE4.2
  • Red 01
    Model Air · 71.220
    ΔE4.6
  • Red 02
    Model Air · 71.221
    ΔE4.9
  • Red 03
    Model Air · 71.222
    ΔE5.9
  • Blood Soft
    Game Color · 72.099
    ΔE6.1
  • Gory Red Soft
    Game Color · 72.011
    ΔE6.8
  • Red 04
    Model Air · 71.223
    ΔE7.2
  • Carmine Red
    Model Color · 70.908
    ΔE7.6
  • Fire Red
    Model Air · 71.084
    ΔE7.9
Army Painter10 matches
  • Fanatic Red 01
    Fanatic · WP2001
    ΔE1.4
  • Fanatic Red 02
    Fanatic · WP2002
    ΔE4.2
  • Fanatic Red 03
    Fanatic · WP2003
    ΔE7.0
  • Fanatic Red 04
    Fanatic · WP2004
    ΔE9.8
  • Fanatic Red 05
    Fanatic · WP2005
    ΔE12.6
  • Pure Red
    Warpaints · WP1104
    ΔE14.4
  • Dragon Red
    Warpaints · WP1105
    ΔE14.9
  • Fanatic Red 06
    Fanatic · WP2006
    ΔE15.4
  • Fanatic Red 07
    Fanatic · WP2007
    ΔE18.1
  • Fanatic Red 08
    Fanatic · WP2008
    ΔE20.9
Tamiya10 matches
  • FS31136
    Acrylic · XF-128
    ΔE4.6
  • Flat Red
    Acrylic · XF-7
    ΔE7.9
  • Red Soft
    Acrylic · XF-177
    ΔE7.9
  • Clear Red
    Acrylic · X-27
    ΔE14.9
  • Clear Red Soft
    Acrylic · XF-159
    ΔE14.9
  • Red
    Acrylic · X-7
    ΔE21.1
  • Red Oxide Primer
    Acrylic · XF-151
    ΔE26.6
  • Copper
    Acrylic · XF-6
    ΔE28.7
  • Copper Soft
    Acrylic · XF-187
    ΔE28.7
  • Hull Red
    Acrylic · XF-9
    ΔE31.1
Mr. Color10 matches
  • Red 04
    Lacquer · C313
    ΔE1.9
  • Red 03
    Lacquer · C312
    ΔE2.4
  • Red 05
    Lacquer · C314
    ΔE2.8
  • Metallic Red
    Lacquer · C75
    ΔE3.3
  • Red 02
    Lacquer · C311
    ΔE3.9
  • Red 06
    Lacquer · C315
    ΔE4.4
  • Red 01
    Lacquer · C310
    ΔE5.6
  • Red 07
    Lacquer · C316
    ΔE6.1
  • Red 08
    Lacquer · C317
    ΔE7.8
  • Red 09
    Lacquer · C318
    ΔE9.5
AK Interactive10 matches
  • Blood Red Soft
    3rd Gen · AK11088
    ΔE6.1
  • Carmine Red
    3rd Gen · AK11083
    ΔE7.6
  • Fire Red Soft
    3rd Gen · AK11089
    ΔE7.9
  • Insignia Red
    3rd Gen · AK11057
    ΔE8.9
  • Scarlet
    3rd Gen · AK11084
    ΔE13.2
  • Dark Red
    3rd Gen · AK11086
    ΔE13.8
  • Pure Red
    3rd Gen · AK11082
    ΔE15.8
  • Rust
    3rd Gen · AK11036
    ΔE18.3
  • Vermillion
    3rd Gen · AK11085
    ΔE19.4
  • Dark Rust
    3rd Gen · AK11038
    ΔE25.3
Scale7510 matches
  • Blood Red
    Scalecolor · SC-24
    ΔE6.1
  • Inktense Red Soft
    Scalecolor · SC-22
    ΔE6.1
  • Red Leather
    Scalecolor · SC-14
    ΔE11.1
  • Deep Red
    Scalecolor · SC-23
    ΔE13.8
  • Pure Red
    Scalecolor · SC-25
    ΔE15.8
  • Antares Red
    Scalecolor · SC-26
    ΔE21.3
  • Copper
    Scalecolor · SC-19
    ΔE28.7
  • Mars Orange
    Scalecolor · SC-13
    ΔE29.9
  • Red Metal Soft
    Metal n Alchemy · SC-83
    ΔE30.8
  • Dark Flesh Soft
    Scalecolor · SC-69
    ΔE32.9
Reaper MSP10 matches
  • Blood Red
    Core · 09004
    ΔE6.1
  • Carnival Red Soft
    Core · 09006
    ΔE13.9
  • Fire Red
    Core · 09003
    ΔE15.8
  • Garnet Red Soft
    Core · 09007
    ΔE17.1
  • Brilliant Red Soft
    Core · 09005
    ΔE19.2
  • Burnt Orange Soft
    Core · 09050
    ΔE23.5
  • Copper Soft
    Core · 09068
    ΔE28.7
  • Burgundy Wine Soft
    Core · 09008
    ΔE30.2
  • Mahogany Brown Soft
    Core · 09009
    ΔE31.5
  • Chestnut Brown Soft
    Core · 09010
    ΔE33.4
SMS10 matches
  • Metallic Red
    Metallic · PMT26
    ΔE3.3
  • Candy Red Base
    Metallic · PMT38
    ΔE6.1
  • Insignia Red
    Premium · PL84
    ΔE8.9
  • Clear Red Soft
    Premium · PL97
    ΔE14.9
  • Red
    Premium · PL03
    ΔE15.8
  • Anti Fouling Red
    Premium · PL117
    ΔE22.4
  • Signal Red
    Premium · PL21
    ΔE24.5
  • Red Oxide
    Premium · PL15
    ΔE26.6
  • Red Oxide Primer
    Premium · PL74
    ΔE26.6
  • Copper
    Metallic · PMT03
    ΔE28.7
03 — Section

Indexed brands

Curated, growing.

Citadel

212 sku

Vallejo

607 sku

Army Painter

154 sku

Tamiya

213 sku

Mr. Color

375 sku

AK Interactive

170 sku

Scale75

85 sku

Reaper MSP

78 sku

SMS

355 sku
04 — Section

Method

How the bench thinks.
A

Perceptual matching

Every hex is converted to CIE LAB. Match quality is reported as ΔE — the perceptual distance a trained eye actually sees. Under 2 is a very close match, under 5 is a good working substitute.

B

Multi-brand mixing

Add paints from any brand with volumetric parts. Chromabench averages the recipe in linear sRGB — a physically-motivated approximation of how thin acrylics blend on a wet palette.

C

Recipe search

Pick a target color and a brand you own. The bench searches every pair of paints in that brand across seven ratios and keeps the top 10 closest mixes by ΔE, so you can hit a Citadel colour from a Tamiya or SMS rack.

Note — hex values are best-effort approximations of published swatches. Always test on a spare miniature before committing.