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

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

Death Korps Drab vs Light Green Chrom.

Death Korps Drab

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

Light Green Chrom.

Brand: Vallejo
Range: Model Air
Code: 71.006
Type: an opaque base/layer paint
Swatch: #506140 (estimate)

How close are they?

ΔE 7.8, close: similar, with a visible difference side by side. Light Green Chrom. is cooler than Death Korps Drab.

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

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

Can I use Death Korps Drab instead of Light Green 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 Light Green 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 Light Green Chrom.
Death Korps Drab vs Interior Green (71.010)Model Air · ΔE 4, very close · closer than Light Green Chrom.
Death Korps Drab vs AMT-4 Cam. Green (71.301)Model Air · ΔE 4, very close · closer than Light Green Chrom.

Other Citadel paints close to Light Green Chrom.

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

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