What is the difference between Yellow Oxide and Rust?

ΔE 10 (close). Rust is more muted, cooler. Swatch colours are estimates.

Yellow Oxide vs Rust

Yellow Oxide

Brand: Scale75
Range: Scalecolor Artist
Code: Artist
Type: an opaque base/layer paint
Swatch: #754a41 (estimate)

Rust

Brand: Vallejo
Range: Model Air
Code: 71.080
Type: an opaque base/layer paint
Swatch: #654a49 (estimate)

How close are they?

ΔE 10.0, close: similar, with a visible difference side by side. Rust is more muted, cooler than Yellow Oxide.

Can I use Rust instead of Yellow Oxide?

Usually, if you are not matching paint already on the model. Close match (ΔE 10). Rust is more muted, cooler than Yellow Oxide.

Can I use Yellow Oxide instead of Rust?

The same difference applies the other way round: Yellow Oxide is more saturated, warmer.

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 Yellow Oxide on the colour wheel See Rust on the colour wheel

Other Vallejo paints close to Yellow Oxide

Yellow Oxide vs Light Rust (71.129)Model Air · ΔE 8, close · closer than Rust
Yellow Oxide vs Flat Brown (70.984)Model Color · ΔE 8, close · closer than Rust
Yellow Oxide vs Mud Brown (71.037)Model Air · ΔE 8, close · closer than Rust

Other Scale75 paints close to Rust

Rust vs Wood (Artist)Scalecolor Artist · ΔE 5, very close · closer than Yellow Oxide
Rust vs African Shadow (SC24)Scalecolor · ΔE 5, very close · closer than Yellow Oxide
Rust vs Arbuckles Brown (SFG34)Fantasy & Games · ΔE 13, fair

All matches: Yellow Oxide equivalents · Rust equivalents