CHROMABENCH
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.

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Brands
9
Paints indexed
2249
Perceptual model
CIE LAB
Mix space
Linear sRGB
02 — 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
03 — 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.

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