White Panel Liner 40 ml

Green Stuff World Panel Liner in the color White is a high-flow paint for highlighting panel lines, engraved details, and recessed features on scale models and miniatures, creating light-colored weathering effects, and laying down a base for painted lighting effects. Unlike dark panel liners, its purpose is not to deepen shadows, but to introduce bright contrasts, represent pale deposits, and provide a foundation for energy and glow effects.

Over black, dark gray, navy blue, deep green, and purple base colors, white creates clearly visible lines and details that stand out against the surrounding finish. Keep it concentrated in selected grooves for a bold, graphic science-fiction look, or blend it out to represent pale residue. On white surfaces, it will provide very little separation: gray is a better choice for shading those panel lines.

In military modeling, we recommend it as a complementary weathering color for tanks and vehicles in winter camouflage, Arctic schemes, and white-and-gray urban camouflage. Applied selectively, it can represent remnants of winter whitewash around seams and hatches, along with fine streaks over areas where the vehicle’s darker base color remains exposed. On armored vehicles with gray, green, or brown camouflage, it can also suggest very pale dust deposits, provided the white does not overpower the finish.

On aircraft with winter camouflage or gray, blue-gray, and dark surfaces, use it for selected weathering marks and pale residue where reference photographs support the effect. Avoid outlining every panel line on a historical model in white: reserve stronger applications for stylized finishes, science-fiction aircraft, and custom builds.

For panel lining on Gunpla and other mecha kits, white offers particularly interesting possibilities over black, dark blue, or charcoal gray armor. It brings out engraved details, circuitry, and recessed channels with strong contrast. Rather than turning every seam into a glowing line, select a few details on weapons, backpacks, reactors, or armor plates to create focal points.

Another particularly useful application is preparing OSL (Object Source Lighting) effects, a painting technique that simulates light emitted by an object on the miniature itself. Its fluid consistency allows the white paint to reach inside engraved runes, grooves in power swords, plasma weapon coils, magical symbols, and energy conduits. This lets you establish a bright base precisely where you want to depict a light source.

Once that base has dried and fully cured, you can paint over it with compatible color glazes, transparent inks, or fluorescent paints. Keep the brightest points within the light source, then add softer reflected light to nearby surfaces, reducing its intensity as the distance increases. For example, a rune with a white core and a blue or green halo can suggest magical energy. The white inside the engraving establishes the effect; the reflected light on surrounding surfaces completes the illusion.

Its white spirit-based formulation allows the paint to flow through engraved details by capillary action. Touch the tip of a fine brush, loaded with a small amount of paint, to a groove and let the liner flow along it. Work in sections without flooding the part or allowing paint buildup to fill the details.

Satin or gloss surfaces help the paint flow and spread more easily, while also making excess paint easier to remove with a cotton swab lightly dampened with white spirit. Apply the panel liner to a clean surface, ensuring that any underlying paint or varnish layers have fully cured.

The extended working time lets you remove stray marks, soften transitions, or draw out small amounts of white to create streaks with a brush lightly dampened with white spirit, provided the underlying finish is compatible.

Once the paint is dry and fully cured, you can protect the finish with a compatible acrylic varnish. When layering colors for an OSL effect, check that they do not reactivate the white base, and use a compatible protective coat where necessary. Avoid allowing paint to pool in joints or connections between parts under mechanical stress. Before applying it to bare plastic, resin, or metal, test the combination on a spare piece.

Contains: 40ml