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Standard FS Number 30257 Name Earth Yellow Swatch #9d703c (estimate, from AK Interactive Nº6 Earth Yellow (FS30257)) 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 30257 AK Interactive names these paints for FS 30257.
Nearest colours in other brands Brands that don't label a paint FS 30257: the nearest swatch to AK Interactive Nº6 Earth Yellow (FS30257). These are colour matches from our estimates, not the maker's own pairing.
Citadel Tallarn Sand Colour: Layer · ΔE 7, close Vallejo Ochre Brown (70.856) Model Color · ΔE 2, very close Army Painter Dark DAK Sand (WP4144P) Warpaints Historical · ΔE 6, close Pro Acryl Petroleum Brown (S14) Standard / Signature / AMP · ΔE 4, very close Two Thin Coats Gyzmo Fur Triads: shadows · ΔE 12, fair Reaper Sand Brown (09190) Master Series Paints · ΔE 4, very close Formula P3 Bootstrap Leather (93031) Formula P3 · ΔE 7, close Kimera Kolors Kiwi Brown (Signature) Signature Series · ΔE 5, very close Golden Transparent Brown Iron Oxide Heavy Body Acrylics · ΔE 21, loose Nocturna Models Leather Brown (NA44) N-Paint Basic · ΔE 9, close Bear Cavalry Pure Filth Bear Cavalry Paints · ΔE 14, fair Scale75 Arabic Shadow (SC22) Scalecolor · ΔE 10, close Tamiya Brown (JGSDF) (XF-72) XF Flat Acrylic · ΔE 12, fair Mr. Hobby RLM 79 Sandy Brown (H-66) Aqueous Hobby Color · ΔE 7, close AMMO by Mig Rust Ochre (AMMO.F-541) Acrylic Colors for Figures · ΔE 8, close Green Stuff World Komodo Khaki (1824) Acrylic Colors · ΔE 7, 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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