What is the difference between Yellow Oxide and Sand Brown?

ΔE 9 (close). Sand Brown is a little lighter, warmer. Swatch colours are estimates.

Yellow Oxide vs Sand Brown

Yellow Oxide

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

Sand Brown

Brand: Vallejo
Range: Model Air
Code: 71.034
Type: an opaque base/layer paint
Swatch: #895e4e (estimate)

How close are they?

ΔE 8.8, close: similar, with a visible difference side by side. Sand Brown is a little lighter, warmer than Yellow Oxide.

Can I use Sand Brown instead of Yellow Oxide?

Usually, if you are not matching paint already on the model. Close match (ΔE 9). Sand Brown is a little lighter, warmer than Yellow Oxide.

Can I use Yellow Oxide instead of Sand Brown?

The same difference applies the other way round: Yellow Oxide is a little darker, 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 Yellow Oxide on the colour wheel See Sand Brown 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 Sand Brown
Yellow Oxide vs Flat Brown (70.984)Model Color · ΔE 8, close · closer than Sand Brown
Yellow Oxide vs Mud Brown (71.037)Model Air · ΔE 8, close · closer than Sand Brown

Other Scale75 paints close to Sand Brown

Sand Brown vs Walnut (SC29)Scalecolor · ΔE 6, very close · closer than Yellow Oxide
Sand Brown vs Cork Brown (Artist)Scalecolor Artist · ΔE 8, close · closer than Yellow Oxide
Sand Brown vs Bosh Chestnut (SFG35)Fantasy & Games · ΔE 10, fair

All matches: Yellow Oxide equivalents · Sand Brown equivalents