VallejovsAK Interactive
AK Interactive's 3rd Generation Acrylic is the single biggest range in this catalog: 477 colors in one line. Vallejo answers with 334 across two ranges. Both are dropper-bottle paints with deep historical roots, so this comparison is less about who has the right colors and more about how much, and what kind.
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Our take
Size versus spread
The overlap is near-total. 469 of AK's 477 colors have a Vallejo equivalent, and 329 Vallejo colors map to AK, so coverage is not the deciding factor. Whichever you buy, you can match almost all of it in the other.
What separates them is where each piles up. AK 3rd Gen leans hard into modeling and armor work: its 477 colors include roughly 104 yellows, 100 browns, and 97 greys, which is camouflage, weathering, and vehicle territory more than fantasy. If you paint tanks, aircraft, or historical figures, that spread is a feature. Vallejo's split of Model Color and Game Color gives you a similar historical bench in Model Color plus a punchier set of saturated fantasy colors in Game Color that AK is comparatively thin on.
So the choice tracks your subject. For armor and scale work the sheer size and military bias of AK is hard to beat; for a mix of miniatures and models, Vallejo's two-range split covers more ground with fewer near-duplicate tones to store.
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Converting between them
469 of AK's 477 colors have a Vallejo match and 329 Vallejo colors map back. Coverage is a wash; choose on subject matter and how many near-identical shades you want to own.
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