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Make a free guideLooking for a Buffed Hide equivalent? Below are the closest cross-brand color matches to Buffed Hide (Army Painter Fanatic) in Monument Pro Acryl, Reaper MSP, AK Interactive Artist Dense Acrylic, Vallejo Game Color, Scale75 Scalecolor, Warhammer Tone Pro, Citadel Colour, Vallejo Model Color, AK Interactive 3rd Gen, 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.
Closest match in each brand
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Shade & highlight partners
Suggested shadow and highlight colors for Buffed Hide, 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.
- Shade 2Wine RedAK Interactive 3rd GenGreat match
- Shade 1Brown InkVallejo Game ColorGreat match
- BaseBuffed HideArmy Painter Fanatic
- Highlight 1Leopard Stone SkinArmy Painter FanaticGreat match
- Highlight 2Doomfire DrabArmy Painter FanaticGreat match
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Make a free guide with your paintsMatches 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.