Scale75 Paint Equivalents — Citadel Conversion Chart

Scale75's artist-quality paints are beloved for their matte finish, intense pigment load, and excellent performance for non-metallic metal techniques. But their unique naming conventions and sometimes unfamiliar colour range can make it difficult to find substitutes, or to translate Scale75 recipes into Citadel paints when following mainstream hobby tutorials.

Our Scale75 equivalents converter maps every Scale75 Games and Scale75 Artist paint to its closest Citadel Base equivalent, so you can translate any Scale75 recipe into widely available Games Workshop paints. This is particularly useful for painters who want to follow GW-style tutorials but prefer Scale75's paint characteristics — or who own a Citadel collection and want to understand which Scale75 paints to add next.

Scale75 paints tend toward more muted, realistic tones compared to Citadel's brighter hobby palette, which means some translations will be close while others involve a deliberate tonal shift. The colour distance value shows how close each match really is, letting you judge whether a substitute will look similar in practice. Use the full chart below to explore equivalents for the entire Scale75 range.

Example Scale75 to Citadel Conversions

The full comparison chart lets you filter by paint name, browse all Scale75 paints, and see the four closest Citadel matches for each — sorted by colour accuracy. Colour distance is calculated using RGB Euclidean distance across our database of 1,000+ paints from 20+ brands.