What is the difference between Birch and Highlight Skin?

ΔE 9 (close). Highlight Skin is a little lighter, more muted. Swatch colours are estimates.

Birch vs Highlight Skin

Birch

Brand: Scale75
Range: Scalecolor
Code: SC25
Type: an opaque base/layer paint
Swatch: #efe0c0 (estimate)

Highlight Skin

Brand: Vallejo
Range: Fantasy-Pro
Code: 74.008
Type: an opaque base/layer paint
Swatch: #faefdc (estimate)

How close are they?

ΔE 8.8, close: similar, with a visible difference side by side. Highlight Skin is a little lighter, more muted than Birch.

Can I use Highlight Skin instead of Birch?

Usually, if you are not matching paint already on the model. Close match (ΔE 9). Highlight Skin is a little lighter, more muted than Birch.

Can I use Birch instead of Highlight Skin?

The same difference applies the other way round: Birch is a little darker, more saturated.

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 Birch on the colour wheel See Highlight Skin on the colour wheel

Other Vallejo paints close to Birch

Birch vs Elfic Flesh (72.098)Game Color · ΔE 4, very close · closer than Highlight Skin
Birch vs Ivory (70.918)Model Color · ΔE 5, very close · closer than Highlight Skin
Birch vs Pale Flesh (72.003)Game Color · ΔE 6, very close · closer than Highlight Skin

Other Scale75 paints close to Highlight Skin

Highlight Skin vs White Sands (SC09)Scalecolor · ΔE 3, very close · closer than Birch
Highlight Skin vs Vanilla White (Artist)Scalecolor Artist · ΔE 5, very close · closer than Birch
Highlight Skin vs Art White (Artist)Scalecolor Artist · ΔE 10, close

All matches: Birch equivalents · Highlight Skin equivalents