You could paint with a Golden yellow paint and come back over with a stain.

Sponge should be made for this purpose, can't use an ordinary kitchen sponge. Home Depot, Lowes, maybe the Marts will carry them.
Clean the surface and prepare to get painty. (May want to use plastic gloves for this).
Dab the sponge, not immerse, in the paint, use a roller tray for this, let the excess drip off, you don't want a lot. Then roll, roll, roll your sponge along the surface. Dab and roll until you get the effect you want. You'll want to keep it fairly thin to keep from totally covering the background color.
You also don't want to do white on a dark color, too much contrast to quickly. Instead, just as an example, black background, use a medium to light brown, then do a light tan over that, letting all three colors show.
That's what I did to my walls, dark green background, lighter green first roll, then a second white roll.
Be sure to go all in one direction other wise the patterns left are much, much too busy and takes away from the rest of the room.

The very first step in painting paneling is to make sure you prepare the surface properly. Paint will not adhere well to paneling and may very well blister or peel is the surface is not deglossed and primed.

As for the antiquing...choose a base paint color that fits your decorating scheme; just for an example, lets use a cream. You also need to purchase "aging glaze" or glaze in a dark umber color.

Roll or brush the umber or aging glaze thinly over top of the base coat in small sections. Before the glaze has dried, wipe the glaze off of the surface with a cotton rag. The darker glaze will settle in the cracks of the paneling and slightly darken the overall base coat, giving the walls an antiqued appearance.

Check out the link below for some great instructions on preparing and painting paneling.

Hope this was helpful.

try painting it whatever color you like then go over it with a glaze applyed with a rag.that should do it.