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I've got a project which calls for a light drybrush of Grey Seer. While I know most any light grey paint would work, I thought it would be worth it to ask and see if anyone has an opinion on which Citadel, Game Color or Model Color paint would be the best match, as Google searches seem to only give recommendations on spray cans. Thanks.

 Ghaz wrote:
I've got a project which calls for a light drybrush of Grey Seer. While I know most any light grey paint would work, I thought it would be worth it to ask and see if anyone has an opinion on which Citadel, Game Color or Model Color paint would be the best match, as Google searches seem to only give recommendations on spray cans. Thanks.

There is a Grey Seer in the pot that is supposed to match the spray. I use it to do touch ups when working with Contrast paints.

 Ghaz wrote:
I've got a project which calls for a light drybrush of Grey Seer. While I know most any light grey paint would work, I thought it would be worth it to ask and see if anyone has an opinion on which Citadel, Game Color or Model Color paint would be the best match, as Google searches seem to only give recommendations on spray cans. Thanks.

At first I thought you were looking for a non-GW source, then I read that and worried if GW had discontinued Grey Seer.

But yes, GW does make a grey seer in a pot, how well it matches the spray? I don't really know. I have both but have never tried painting one over the other. I feel like the pot version is maybe darker? But yeah, never painted them side by side to check.

Vallejo make White Grey 70.993 in their VMC line, but it's lighter than Grey Seer, much closer to white, but in the same realm of being a relatively neutral grey (not particularly warm nor particularly cool). VMC also have "Neutral Grey 70.992" which I've sometimes used as a light grey but unfortunately I can't find my bottle at the moment so I can't compare it to Grey Seer.

I hate greys but I love greys... I own far too many greys because it's so hard to guess what a grey will look like until you've painted it on a model (in terms of is it slightly warmish, slightly coolish, slightly purplish, slightly greenish, etc). I usually buy a grey, paint it, decide it's not what I wanted and it gets thrown in my pile-of-paints-I-barely-use, lol.

I don’t want to buy a pot of Grey Seer just to do a little bit of drybrushing, but I do have other Citadel grey paints. Would any of those be an acceptable equivalent of Grey Seer?

My apologies, I misread the OP. Vallejo Model Color Sky Grey 70.989 is slightly darker than Grey Seer. You could add a little white to that and mix something close enough.

 Ghaz wrote:
I don’t want to buy a pot of Grey Seer just to do a little bit of drybrushing, but I do have other Citadel grey paints. Would any of those be an acceptable equivalent of Grey Seer?

Grey Seer is just a light neutral grey, so if you're not hell bent on a perfect match then any light neutral grey should probably do the job. I think most of the other citadel light greys aren't neutral. Administratum Grey perhaps, but that's a bit darker.

You could try the ones I mentioned, Vallejo White Grey or Neutral Grey, but he former would need to be darkened slightly if you want a match for Grey Seer and the latter may need to be lightened, I'm not sure on the VMC Neutral Grey, if you want I can dig through my hobby bin and find my VMC Neutral Grey and see what it's like next to Grey Seer.

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Personally, if I'm just doing a bit of something and don't want to buy a whole pot (like, one off model vs a whole army that needs to be that colour), then I'll mix up what I need and save a swatch of it with a note of which paints were used so if I ever need to reproduce it I can.

Well, grey seer is a very light grey, if you wanted a slightly darker grey you could use celestra grey or ulthuan grey I think. Grey seer has I think more of a yellow or green tone, ulthuan has a blue tone and celestra has kind of a green tone. What an acceptable equivalent would be is up to you, but the exact paint you want does already exist from GW and you can buy it.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
Grey Seer is just a light neutral grey, so if you're not hell bent on a perfect match then any light neutral grey should probably do the job.

It doesn't have to be a perfect match as equivalents rarely are. I'm just trying to find out what others who have Grey Seer think would be the closest match in the lines that I have.

Putting the Grey Seer, Administratum Grey, Corax White, Celestra Grey and Ulthuan Grey I have in my collection side by side the two closest are Administratum Grey (which is slightly darker) and Corax White (slightly lighter) with Administratum Grey being the absolute closest to Grey Seer.

The variance in difference between Administratum Grey and Corax White however would not seem visible if just used for a light drybrush.