Paints › Colour standards › FS 16081FS 16081 Engine Gray paint
Standard FS Number 16081 Name Engine Gray Swatch #334b5b (estimate, from Mr. Hobby Engine Gray FS16081) FS (Federal Standard 595) numbers are the US colour standard used on American aircraft and vehicles. Paint makers each mix their own version of a standard colour, and faded or weathered vehicles vary a lot, so expect some difference between brands.
Paints labelled FS 16081 Mr. Hobby names these paints for FS 16081.
Nearest colours in other brands Brands that don't label a paint FS 16081: the nearest swatch to Mr. Hobby Engine Gray FS16081. These are colour matches from our estimates, not the maker's own pairing.
Citadel Thunderhawk Blue Colour: Layer · ΔE 4, very close Vallejo Abyssal Turquoise (72.120) Game Color · ΔE 6, very close Army Painter Night Sky Warpaints Fanatic · ΔE 3, very close Pro Acryl Payne’s Grey (S02) Standard / Signature / AMP · ΔE 5, very close AK Interactive RLM 83 (AK11839) 3rd Gen Air Series · ΔE 5, very close Two Thin Coats Oxidation Green Triads: shadows · ΔE 6, very close Reaper Templar Blue (09056) Master Series Paints · ΔE 2, very close Formula P3 Greatcoat Grey (93043) Formula P3 · ΔE 6, close Kimera Kolors Silver Grey (Signature) Signature Series · ΔE 14, fair Golden N3 Neutral Gray Heavy Body Acrylics · ΔE 13, fair Nocturna Models Blue Mountain (NA12) N-Paint Basic · ΔE 9, close Bear Cavalry Dark Eternal Night Bear Cavalry Paints · ΔE 10, close Scale75 Graphene Gray (SC58) Scalecolor · ΔE 8, close Tamiya Gray Violet (Luftwaffe) (AS-4) AS Spray (aircraft) · ΔE 7, close AMMO by Mig Steel Shadow (IONIC-0167) IONIC Smart Colors · ΔE 9, close Green Stuff World Terror Blue-Grey (4125) Opaque Colors · ΔE 4, very close All RAL, RLM and FS colours
© 2026 AK Tabletop Studio. Swatch colours are estimates and will differ from the real paints; cross-brand matches are close, never exact.
Chart-listed matches come from the Two Thin Coats Paint Comparison Chart 2024, the Army Painter Warpaints Fanatic conversion chart, the AK 3rd Generation Acrylics equivalence table (2021) and the Herrick Games hobby paint comparison chart; the rest are a nearest-colour calculation.
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