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Colour Primer: Plate Mail Metal Equivalents

Army Painter Colour Primer · Spray · Matte · CP3008

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Looking for a Colour Primer: Plate Mail Metal equivalent? Below are the closest cross-brand color matches to Colour Primer: Plate Mail Metal (Army Painter Colour Primer) in Army Painter Fanatic, Vallejo Metal Color, Citadel Colour, Reaper MSP, Vallejo Xpress Color, Vallejo Hobby Spray, AK Interactive 3rd Gen, Vallejo Model Color, Vallejo Game Color, Scale75 Scalecolor, Army Painter Speedpaint, Monument Pro Acryl, Vallejo Diorama FX, AK Interactive Diorama Series, Vallejo Game Color Effects, Vallejo Weathering Effects, AK Interactive Artist Dense Acrylic, Army Painter Warpaints, Vallejo Model Wash, Army Painter Quickshade, ranked by CIE76 deltaE color distance. Use them as substitutes, or generate a painting guide from the paints you actually own and let PaintGuide handle the matching and mixing for you.

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Shade & highlight partners

Suggested shadow and highlight colors for Colour Primer: Plate Mail Metal, picked from the full catalog by color science — not paints you own. Shadows stay richer when they lean cool; pure black just flattens them. Highlights read best warmer and a touch softer than the base; pure white bleaches them out.

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Matches are computed by converting each paint's color to CIELAB and measuring CIE76 deltaE distance. A “great match” (deltaE < 3) is very close to the eye; a “close match” is a usable substitute. Finish, opacity, and coverage still differ between brands, so test on primer when it matters.