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Thick Blood (Special FX) Equivalents

Vallejo Game Color Effects · Technical · Matte · 72.602

Discontinued — see current equivalents below

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Looking for a Thick Blood (Special FX) equivalent? Below are the closest cross-brand color matches to Thick Blood (Special FX) (Vallejo Game Color Effects) in Citadel Colour, AK Interactive 3rd Gen, Reaper MSP, Vallejo Hobby Spray, Scale75 Scalecolor, Army Painter Fanatic, Army Painter Warpaints, Vallejo Xpress Color, Monument Pro Acryl, Army Painter Speedpaint, Vallejo Model Color, Vallejo Model Wash, Vallejo Game Color, AK Interactive Artist Dense Acrylic, Vallejo Weathering Effects, Army Painter Colour Primer, AK Interactive Diorama Series, Vallejo Metal Color, Army Painter Quickshade, Vallejo Diorama FX, 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.

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Shade & highlight partners

Suggested shadow and highlight colors for Thick Blood (Special FX), 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.

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Matches 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.