What is the difference between Death Korps Drab and Green Zinc Chrom.?

ΔE 8 (close). Green Zinc Chrom. is cooler. Swatch colours are estimates.

Death Korps Drab vs Green Zinc Chrom.

Death Korps Drab

Brand: Citadel / Warhammer
Range: Colour: Base
Type: an opaque base/layer paint
Swatch: #5a5a3a (estimate)

Green Zinc Chrom.

Brand: Vallejo
Range: Model Air
Code: 71.094
Type: an opaque base/layer paint
Swatch: #495938 (estimate)

How close are they?

ΔE 7.5, close: similar, with a visible difference side by side. Green Zinc Chrom. is cooler than Death Korps Drab.

Can I use Green Zinc Chrom. instead of Death Korps Drab?

Usually, if you are not matching paint already on the model. Close match (ΔE 8). Green Zinc Chrom. is cooler than Death Korps Drab.

Can I use Death Korps Drab instead of Green Zinc Chrom.?

The same difference applies the other way round: Death Korps Drab is warmer.

ΔE is the colour difference between our two swatch estimates: under about 6 is close, over about 15 is loose. Real paints also differ in finish, coverage and how they thin, so test before you commit.

See Death Korps Drab on the colour wheel See Green Zinc Chrom. on the colour wheel

Other Vallejo paints close to Death Korps Drab

Death Korps Drab vs US Light Green (71.137)Model Air · ΔE 2, very close · closer than Green Zinc Chrom.
Death Korps Drab vs Interior Green (71.010)Model Air · ΔE 4, very close · closer than Green Zinc Chrom.
Death Korps Drab vs AMT-4 Cam. Green (71.301)Model Air · ΔE 4, very close · closer than Green Zinc Chrom.

Other Citadel paints close to Green Zinc Chrom.

Green Zinc Chrom. vs Death World ForestColour: Base · ΔE 11, fair
Green Zinc Chrom. vs Death World ForestColour: Air · ΔE 11, fair
Green Zinc Chrom. vs Straken GreenColour: Layer · ΔE 12, fair

All matches: Death Korps Drab equivalents · Green Zinc Chrom. equivalents