Model Paint Conversion Charts

Welcome to ModelShade, the most comprehensive conversion tool for model paint colors

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Latest Updates

  • 22nd October 2020 - Look and feel refreshed

    We've refreshed the look of the results page thanks to some great feedback from users that the previous one was difficult to read. Let us know what you think we are always keen to hear ideas for improving the conversion tool

  • 15th October 2020 - Added AK Interactive 3rd Gen

    Thanks for all your great feedback and so many people asking for AK Interactive's 3rd generation acrylic paints we have now added these to the converter

  • 7th November 2019 - You can now match from RAL and Federal Standard and Luftwaffe RLM color codes

    We have added data for RAL, RLM and Federal Standard color codes into the options, Select them from the "Convert From" table. If you have other paint codes you want to convert from then get in touch and let us know

  • 9th October 2019 - We are on Twitter! Twitter

    Follow @ModelShade on Twitter for updates to the paint conversion tool and other model related content

How it works

Select a paint manufacturer to convert from

Search for a source paint and see the closest matches across all the paint manufacturers we have data for

Each match is rated based on how many conversion charts it appears on, combined with the results of our color matching algorithm.

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Paint Matching Algorithm

The matching tool will attempt to find multiple matches for each paint, so alongside official chart matches we also show colors matched using the CIE94 color matching algorithm. CIE94 is an algorithm devised by the International Commission on Illumination as a way to judge difference in perceived color. We use color information for over 2000 paints obtained directly from manufacturer's websites, so although representing paint color on a computer/mobile screen is far from perfect, it really is the best we can do.

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