About Basecoat Lab
Basecoat Lab is a free tool for miniature and wargaming painters. Pick any paint and it shows you the closest colors in every other brand, drawn from a catalog of 2002 paints across 8 brands.
How the matches are built
Every paint has a measured color. We compare colors using a standard color-distance calculation and turn that distance into a similarity percentage. Community conversion charts are used only as a cross-check, never copied. The result is our own merged table.
Why finish type matters
Color distance alone can match a metallic to a flat brown, or a wash to an opaque black. Those paints behave nothing alike on the model. So we group matches by finish class, rank same-finish paints first, and flag any cross-finish match instead of selling it as a drop-in swap.
The swatches you see are rendered directly from each paint's color. We use no product photos anywhere, so nothing here is a manufacturer image or a scraped listing.