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Make a free guideLooking for a Stirland Mud equivalent? Below are the closest cross-brand color matches to Stirland Mud (Citadel Colour) in AK Interactive 3rd Gen, Army Painter Colour Primer, Army Painter Fanatic, Vallejo Model Color, Scale75 Scalecolor, Vallejo Game Color, Army Painter Speedpaint, Army Painter Warpaints, Reaper MSP, Vallejo Model Wash, Vallejo Hobby Spray, Army Painter Quickshade, AK Interactive Artist Dense Acrylic, Monument Pro Acryl, Vallejo Xpress Color, AK Interactive Diorama Series, Vallejo Weathering Effects, Vallejo Diorama FX, Vallejo Game Color Effects, Vallejo Metal Color, 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 Stirland Mud, 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 Prussian BlueAK Interactive 3rd GenGreat match
- Shade 1Dark RustArmy Painter FanaticGreat match
- BaseStirland MudCitadel Colour
- Highlight 1EarthVallejo Game ColorGreat match
- Highlight 2Baneblade BrownCitadel ColourGreat 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.