#why people suggest having a variety of browns?

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languid cedar
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And which are your favorites?

frozen lily
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Browns are a pain to mix. So many nuances. Reds, purples, yellows. It’s infuriating to try and mix the same brown with a few hours/days apart. Don’t have any favs to share though, but AK browns are nice ^_*

rugged star
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Royal Navy Brown from Vallejo Model Color is a nice reddish brown

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Golden Brown from AK is also very nice in the yellow spectrum

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But I only tried a few...probably missing on the dozens of cool brown out there 😉

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Lots of people swear by the Rhinox hide from Citadel, but I don't own it so...

languid cedar
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Why do I want browns in oriented colors?

frozen lily
wary igloo
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Vallejo Model Colour Flat Brown is a nice generic brown, very flexible.

A lot of the PA browns are nice too with good coverage - their Umbers and Golden Browns are nice. Unlike the Model Colour mentioned, they’re tinted already (ie Golden Browns lean warmer/yellower)

spring wasp
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Because we are lazy mixers and sometimes I want a fairly warm and light brown that is close to leather, sometimes I need a darker one for wood, sometimes I have a figure with 5 brown elements and I want them to have a different vibe, so I could mix the browns, or be intellectually lazy and want a premade bottle set.
But mostly because there are specific browns that would take me time to mix right (especially leather - the average one we use in high fantasy).

languid cedar
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Awesome

blissful wing
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Second all the above. It's a staple color with a lot of variety needed and sometimes I don't want to mix it. And sometimes mixing it doesn't have the same result as the single pigments like burnt umber.
I like Cavalry Brown (VMC) a lot for red-orange leather.
Terracotta is a nice very red-brown.
Don't much like some of the VMC earth colors, cause I like PA Mahogany for a fertile soil ground, not a dusty clay look.

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Just an example of using the nuances of brown