Vallejo Game Color: Scrofulous Brown 
A warm yellow-brown / ochre-brown acrylic that’s perfect for leather, wood, desert cloth, bone-adjacent highlights, and dusty fantasy details. Smooth, matte, and made for tabletop miniatures.
 
What it does
Water-based acrylic made for Fantasy & Wargame figures.
New Game Color formulation is smoother, more fluid, opaque, and highly pigmented for bright, stable colour.
Offers a matt finish with self-levelling behaviour to help reduce visible brush strokes.
Designed with good resistance to handling and rubbing, useful for gaming miniatures.
 
How to use
Apply over a primed surface for best adhesion.
Shake well, then paint 2 thin coats for smooth coverage.
Shade recesses with a warm brown/sepia wash.
Re-layer Scrofulous Brown on raised areas, then highlight with a lighter tan or bone tone.
Best for
Leather straps, boots, pouches, belts
Wood, rope, parchment, horns, bone transitions
Desert cloth, sandy terrain accents, dry earth highlights
Warm highlights over darker browns without making them look grey
 
ChalkyDot Tip: For realistic worn leather, base with a darker brown, layer Scrofulous Brown on the raised edges, then add a tiny final highlight with a bone/ivory mix. Keep the highlights small. Small scratches read as “worn leather,” big ones read as “painted beige.”