Don't have Military Yellow? Get a free step-by-step guide using the paints you own.
Make a free guideLooking for a Military Yellow equivalent? Below are the closest cross-brand color matches to Military Yellow (Vallejo Xpress Color) in Citadel Colour, Vallejo Game Color, AK Interactive 3rd Gen, Reaper MSP, Vallejo Hobby Spray, Vallejo Metal Color, Vallejo Model Color, Monument Pro Acryl, Scale75 Scalecolor, Vallejo Game Color Effects, Army Painter Fanatic, Army Painter Speedpaint, Army Painter Quickshade, AK Interactive Artist Dense Acrylic, Army Painter Warpaints, Army Painter Colour Primer, AK Interactive Diorama Series, Vallejo Diorama FX, Vallejo Weathering Effects, 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
Own Military Yellow? 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 Military Yellow, 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 2Olive DrabReaper MSPGreat match
- Shade 1Olive SkinReaper MSPGreat match
- BaseMilitary YellowVallejo Xpress Color
- Highlight 1Barren DuneArmy Painter FanaticGreat match
- Highlight 2IvoryVallejo Model 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 Military Yellow? 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.