What is the difference between Green Brown and Barbarian Skin?

ΔE 8 (close). Barbarian Skin is more muted, warmer. Swatch colours are estimates.

Green Brown vs Barbarian Skin

Green Brown

Brand: Mr. Hobby
Range: Aqueous Hobby Color
Code: H-402
Type: an opaque base/layer paint
Swatch: #b49154 (estimate)

Barbarian Skin

Brand: Vallejo
Range: Game Color
Code: 72.071
Type: an opaque base/layer paint
Swatch: #c09566 (estimate)

How close are they?

ΔE 8.1, close: similar, with a visible difference side by side. Barbarian Skin is more muted, warmer than Green Brown.

Can I use Barbarian Skin instead of Green Brown?

Usually, if you are not matching paint already on the model. Close match (ΔE 8). Barbarian Skin is more muted, warmer than Green Brown.

Can I use Green Brown instead of Barbarian Skin?

The same difference applies the other way round: Green Brown 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 Green Brown on the colour wheel See Barbarian Skin on the colour wheel

Other Vallejo paints close to Green Brown

Green Brown vs Dark Sand (70.847)Model Color · ΔE 5, very close · closer than Barbarian Skin
Green Brown vs Iraqi Sand (70.819)Model Color · ΔE 6, close · closer than Barbarian Skin
Green Brown vs Desert Yellow (70.977)Model Color · ΔE 8, close

Other Mr. Hobby paints close to Barbarian Skin

Barbarian Skin vs Dark Yellow Sandy Yellow (C-39)Mr. Color · ΔE 8, close
Barbarian Skin vs Sandy Yellow Dark Yellow (H-79)Aqueous Hobby Color · ΔE 8, close
Barbarian Skin vs Dark Yellow (N-79)Acrysion · ΔE 8, close

All matches: Green Brown equivalents · Barbarian Skin equivalents