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Make a free guideLooking for a White Sands equivalent? Below are the closest cross-brand color matches to White Sands (Scale75 Scalecolor) in Army Painter Colour Primer, Reaper MSP, Vallejo Game Color, Vallejo Model Color, Army Painter Fanatic, Citadel Colour, AK Interactive 3rd Gen, Monument Pro Acryl, Vallejo Diorama FX, Vallejo Xpress Color, Army Painter Speedpaint, AK Interactive Artist Dense Acrylic, AK Interactive Diorama Series, Vallejo Hobby Spray, Vallejo Weathering Effects, Vallejo Game Color Effects, Vallejo Metal Color, Army Painter Warpaints, Army Painter Quickshade, Vallejo Model Wash, 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 White Sands, 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 2Zombie FleshVallejo Xpress ColorGreat match
- Shade 1Longbeard GreyCitadel ColourGreat match
- BaseWhite SandsScale75 Scalecolor
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No good highlight suggestion — White Sands is already near the edge of the catalog's value range, or nothing in the catalog is close enough to recommend.
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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.