Don't have Onyx Skin? Get a free step-by-step guide using the paints you own.
Make a free guideLooking for a Onyx Skin equivalent? Below are the closest cross-brand color matches to Onyx Skin (Army Painter Fanatic) in Citadel Colour, Scale75 Scalecolor, Army Painter Speedpaint, AK Interactive 3rd Gen, Reaper MSP, Monument Pro Acryl, AK Interactive Artist Dense Acrylic, Vallejo Metal Color, AK Interactive Diorama Series, Vallejo Model Color, Vallejo Diorama FX, Vallejo Weathering Effects, Vallejo Hobby Spray, Vallejo Xpress Color, Vallejo Game Color, Army Painter Warpaints, Vallejo Model Wash, Army Painter Colour Primer, Army Painter Quickshade, Vallejo Game Color Effects, 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
Own Onyx Skin? Put it to work.
Get a step-by-step painting guide built around your paints — exact colors, mixes, and where each one goes. First guide is free.
Shade & highlight partners
Suggested shadow and highlight colors for Onyx Skin, 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 2Dark Red ToneArmy Painter FanaticGreat match
- Shade 1Red ToneArmy Painter FanaticGreat match
- BaseOnyx SkinArmy Painter Fanatic
- Highlight 1Brown GreyScale75 ScalecolorGreat match
- Highlight 2Warm GreyVallejo Game ColorGreat match
Mix starting points — real pigment blends shift a little; adjust by eye.
Your paints, one journey — the blends between them live here.
Don't have Onyx Skin? Paint with what you own.
PaintGuide builds a step-by-step guide for your miniature using only the paints in your collection — matching colors across brands and giving exact mixing recipes for anything you're missing.
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.