The Army PaintervsMonument Pro Acryl
This pairing splits more sharply than the counts suggest. The Army Painter lists 306 colors, Monument Pro Acryl 174, but only 210 of the Army Painter colors find a Pro Acryl match, the lowest overlap of any pair on this page. The gap is the tell.
Our take
Where these two split
The missing matches are almost all Speedpaint. Army Painter's catalog includes 97 wash-like and one-coat colors, and Pro Acryl is opaque-first with only 16 anything similar, so roughly a hundred Army Painter colors have no natural Pro Acryl counterpart. That is not a flaw in either range; they are built for different steps.
For plain opaque basecoating they line up well. 164 of Pro Acryl's 174 colors map to an Army Painter equivalent, and Pro Acryl brings higher pigment density and a notably darker, more muted palette to that job. If you want a focused opaque range and do your shading with separate washes, Pro Acryl is the more deliberate tool.
If you want the one-coat Speedpaint system, only Army Painter has it here. That single decision, whether you want shading built into the paint or applied as a later step, settles the comparison more than any color count.
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Measured overlap
Converting between them
Only 210 of 306 Army Painter colors map to Pro Acryl, and 164 of 174 Pro Acryl colors map back. The shortfall is the Speedpaint line, which has no Pro Acryl equivalent.
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