What is the difference between Death Korps Drab and Light Olive?

ΔE 7 (close). Light Olive is more muted. Swatch colours are estimates.

Death Korps Drab vs Light Olive

Death Korps Drab

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

Light Olive

Brand: Vallejo
Range: Model Air
Code: 71.247
Type: an opaque base/layer paint
Swatch: #595844 (estimate)

How close are they?

ΔE 7.1, close: similar, with a visible difference side by side. Light Olive is more muted than Death Korps Drab.

Can I use Light Olive instead of Death Korps Drab?

Usually, if you are not matching paint already on the model. Close match (ΔE 7). Light Olive is more muted than Death Korps Drab.

Can I use Death Korps Drab instead of Light Olive?

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

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

Other Citadel paints close to Light Olive

Light Olive vs Stormvermin FurColour: Layer · ΔE 8, close
Light Olive vs Steel Legion DrabColour: Base · ΔE 9, close
Light Olive vs Skavenblight DingeColour: Layer · ΔE 9, close

All matches: Death Korps Drab equivalents · Light Olive equivalents