My Cheap New Solution for Panel Lining Gunpla Model Kits | How to Panel Line Dark or Painted Gundam
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- I don't know why my camera focus and color decided to look terrible for this video. Got a DSLR recommendation? Drop it in the comments.
Just a quick video showing my cheap new go-to method of panel lining dark or painted parts on my Gunpla model kits. Alcohol ink!
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Issue with alcohol based ink is if you are painting with lacquer, the alcohol will eat your paint. That's why many people prefer the enamel (mineral spirit) based paint. Because enamel is orthogonal to lacquer as a solvent. And you can get these sort of color effects by doing the same thing with different enamel colors.
What this guy said. Use enamel based paint or artist oils and you can use some pretty vibrant colors.
Not sure how helpful this is, but on my first ever gunpla I was able to panel line somewhat by using miniature washes. Since my only experience was from making a few tabletop figures, I used the techniques I learned there. One thing you can do in place of actual washes is take your brown or black paint and dilute it heavily, almost to the point pigment is visibly separating from the medium. This will allow the pigment to naturally build up in the recesses while the other paint on the surface is wiped away before it can dry at all in the process.
So some of the best panel liners ive used is a home mix of Vallejo air brush paint mixed equal parts alcohol and a drop of dish soap
one of the things that's known about the flow-type Gundam Markers and the Tamiya panel liner fluid is that the solvents have a tendency to embrittle ABS plastics, which some non-Bandai kits use
it sounds like the alcohol inks should be more ABS-safe for bare plastic but it'd be interesting to know if that's actually the case
Yeah, you have to use what's best for the material you're working with. Some paints play nicely with enamel, other better with alcohol. As far as plastics go, I haven't tested the alcohols on my Kotobukiya kits, which are already a much more brittle plastic, so maybe that would be a fun experiment. I know it doesn't degrade the ABS parts from my Bandai kits (like the polycaps).
I caught that Guntank dabbing haha! Loved it! Some great tips. I might be curious enough to try this out.
I had to sneak a Gundab in there for you!
@MidnightHatter Cheers, my friend! 🍻
Just tried mixing some vallejo black with a bit of rubbing alcohol to make a panel liner, i was pretty surprised at how good the results were, and like you mentioned it cleans away so effortlessly. Plus you dont risk damaging the plastic like you do with tamiya and ive seen it myself you DEFINITELY CAN mess up unpainted plastic with that stuff, rare but it does happen, almost ruined a crossbone ver ka kit. Also the acrylic paint breaks down immediately when mixed with alcohol so it never separates in the bottle.. pretty cool
That's clever! I haven't tried making my own panel liner with IPA so it's good to know Vallejo works for that. Liquitex also makes a line of acrylic inks that are water-based so I'd be curious to see how those do as well. That would definitely be harmless to most finishes.
@@MidnightHatter ill definitely check them out if theres some vibrant colors to try contrasting. Theres a few kits i wanted to deck out black then panel line in a lime green like forbidden MG. Til i saw this video i was just gonna load up on citadel washes like tesseract glow i heard works nice as a glowing panel line
I'm planning on getting a MG Hyaku Shiki some day. Is it safe to use panel liner on the gold parts? It won't damage the finish?
It would probably be fine? I tested it on my painted Hyaku Shiki and it did strip the paint, but I did not try it on the metallic finished parts. I'd recommend testing a bit of alcohol on the runner away from the parts to make sure it doesn't rub off. iF it does, there are water-soluble acrylic inks you could try but they are much harder to work with.
Acrylic washes from Vallejo work well too if you use them after top coating or with an acrylic base top coat. They flow like a dream with an ink dip pen
Great call! I’m a huge Vallejo fan.
Where is that custom Turn A Gundam you had in the thumbnail?
That's the HG Turn A Shin. P-Bandai kit unfortunately.
@@blacksheeprising9710 Damn I like the normal Turn A but hate the face
Pretty good idea, now I need to find a local that sells it.
Note, if you paint a kit, you are suppose to gloss coat it before using tamiya panel liner.
I'm all for multiple methods of achieving a goal, but that method seems to give wildly inconsistent results(The Guntank's panel lining on the body, the head looked good though). Although it does do the Capillary effect filling in lines it is too thin in spots & seems like whenever you wipe away a good portion of it goes with it still.
I'd imagine though that if you had the method/mixtures down before making the video the results would have probably turned out more convincingly so not a method to just write off.
I like the idea though, but probably will just stick to my Tamiya panel liner methods for consistency & ease of use/cleanup.
Then to the lab I go
what are the proportions for mixing
Sorry, mixing what? Two ink tones or ink plus alcohol? I didn't add any extra alcohol to the mix, but I bet it would help the flow of ink. For the ink to ink ratio that depends what color we want to get. The white ink doesn't go very far I'm afraid. The more diluted it gets the less opaque the color is. 😭
This is not new it have been around for awhile
hi, I'm new but excited to start. is using painters tape to get clean lines not a thing?
For panel lining it’s not necessary but I’d using masking tape for painting definitely.