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I am painting up a haqqislam model from infinity and I have only been using model colors. The model has a lot of brown.

I do not have a lot of model color browns but I do have a larger selection of citadel browns.

My question is if I paint the model predominantly model colors, will the citadel painted sections of the model look out of place?

Citadel paints are specially formulated to melt non-GW plastics so as to discourage you from committing the heresy of playing non-GW games.

On a more serious note no one is going to notice anything. They're both flat acrylic paints, so it's not like you're mixing acrylics and enamels, or flat and gloss. At worst someone will notice you're using a specific shade that isn't present in the model colour range. The finish should be pretty much the same.

No, they won't as long as you're sensible with your colour choices. Many of the gw colours are quite vibrant (we call these saturated colours). If your using a relatively muted (tending toward greys) selection of colours then a saturated one may look out of place, or draw unwanted attention.

winterdyne wrote:
No, they won't as long as you're sensible with your colour choices. Many of the gw colours are quite vibrant (we call these saturated colours). If your using a relatively muted (tending toward greys) selection of colours then a saturated one may look out of place, or draw unwanted attention.

Will these colours stand out?

scorched brown
dryad bark

 MRPYM wrote:

winterdyne wrote:
No, they won't as long as you're sensible with your colour choices. Many of the gw colours are quite vibrant (we call these saturated colours). If your using a relatively muted (tending toward greys) selection of colours then a saturated one may look out of place, or draw unwanted attention.

Will these colours stand out?

scorched brown
dryad bark

Depends what your other colours are. Neon Blue doesn't stand out much against Neon Green, but it sure does against Black.

Nah, you'll probably be ok. Scorched brown is quite red and strong, but if youre highlighting with a tan or khaki it'll knock it back a bit.

All paints you mentioned are water based acrylics that dry with a matt surface. Their viscosity might be different, but you should be thinning your paints anyway, so you are likely to adjust for that and leave you with almost the same material from two different sources.

Now, it's possible that the one type of paint dries slightly faster, is sturdier in play, has finer pigments and results in a more even paintjob, but fundamentally they'll deliver the same result.

It would be a bad idea to use the same colour from the two ranges, since that'd be like a comparison chart and bring out tiny differences. You are talking about using specific colours from each paint range only, so you'll be fine.

winterdyne wrote:
Nah, you'll probably be ok. Scorched brown is quite red and strong, but if youre highlighting with a tan or khaki it'll knock it back a bit.

The colours I have though are deck tan and medium gray.

Is it a good idea if I use model color grey's and mix them with scorched brown?

winterdyne wrote:
Nah, you'll probably be ok. Scorched brown is quite red and strong, but if youre highlighting with a tan or khaki it'll knock it back a bit.

Totally agree, with your shading and highlighting you can subtly alter the depth of the colour, so if it doesn't look right it's not hard to change. Also, GW washes are great for colour tinting which can help with that problem too.

 MRPYM wrote:

winterdyne wrote:
Nah, you'll probably be ok. Scorched brown is quite red and strong, but if youre highlighting with a tan or khaki it'll knock it back a bit.

The colours I have though are deck tan and medium gray.

Is it a good idea if I use model color grey's and mix them with scorched brown?

Just suck it and see! I'd probably just add a touch of the deck tan for highlighting. Should be fine. Scorched Brown is pretty good as a base for recovering so if you have to repaint that area, it won't be particularly hard to do.

They are just different colours, they work the same way. I'm mixing old Citadel and new Vallejo Model Colours already.

Most of my old Citadel paints already dried up (after several years), so I ordered a lot from Vallejo (much more comfortable with the droplet, and cheaper with more volume).

But I have to say ... the colour chart here for comparison is nice, but they are not the same colours - there are often subtle and more often major differences in colour.

But I don't see a problem using both paint ranges on one model.