After the painting of the bottom wings, I proceeded with my normal preshading routine. First, I trace all of the panel lines in black.
![Image](https://i.postimg.cc/ZRN3bHZV/IMG-1950.jpg)
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In order to provide some tonal variation in the camo finish, I augment the panel line preshade with a random mottle pattern, also in black. In the beginning, I used to freehand these mottles but I thought the results were not random enough. After playing with a few spraying templates, I started using thinned pieces of green scouring pads. Spraying through this results in a nice random pattern with both soft and hard edges and seems to work a little better as a preshading treatment.
![Image](https://i.postimg.cc/zv1hVhG5/IMG-1952.jpg)
![Image](https://i.postimg.cc/jjmPYmVD/IMG-1953.jpg)
![Image](https://i.postimg.cc/zvSgWfyh/IMG-1954.jpg)
I know it looks a little odd at this stage but the good thing about any preshading technique is that you have total control over the effect and I can dial this back all the way to zero, if I wanted to.
![Image](https://i.postimg.cc/m2j9gtff/IMG-1955.jpg)
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Next will be Light Blue, RLM 76.