What is the difference between Screaming Skull and Pale Flesh?

ΔE 10 (close). Pale Flesh is more muted, warmer. Swatch colours are estimates.

Screaming Skull vs Pale Flesh

Screaming Skull

Brand: Citadel / Warhammer
Range: Colour: Layer
Type: an opaque base/layer paint
Swatch: #d8d0a8 (estimate)

Pale Flesh

Brand: Vallejo
Range: Game Color
Code: 72.003
Type: an opaque base/layer paint
Swatch: #ebd3b9 (estimate)

How close are they?

ΔE 9.7, close: similar, with a visible difference side by side. Pale Flesh is more muted, warmer than Screaming Skull.

Can I use Pale Flesh instead of Screaming Skull?

Usually, if you are not matching paint already on the model. Close match (ΔE 10). Pale Flesh is more muted, warmer than Screaming Skull.

Can I use Screaming Skull instead of Pale Flesh?

The same difference applies the other way round: Screaming Skull is more saturated, cooler.

ΔE is the colour difference between our two swatch estimates: under about 6 is close, over about 15 is loose. Real paints also differ in finish, coverage and how they thin, so test before you commit.

See Screaming Skull on the colour wheel See Pale Flesh on the colour wheel

Other Vallejo paints close to Screaming Skull

Screaming Skull vs Off-White (71.270)Model Air · ΔE 2, very close · closer than Pale Flesh
Screaming Skull vs Aged White (71.132)Model Air · ΔE 4, very close · closer than Pale Flesh
Screaming Skull vs Bone White (72.034)Game Color · ΔE 7, close · closer than Pale Flesh

Other Citadel paints close to Pale Flesh

Pale Flesh vs Deepkin FleshColour: Layer · ΔE 10, close · closer than Screaming Skull
Pale Flesh vs Tyrant SkullColour: Dry · ΔE 10, close
Pale Flesh vs WraithboneColour: Base · ΔE 11, fair

All matches: Screaming Skull equivalents · Pale Flesh equivalents