It is the same gun and the only changes that were made to it was the addition of a folding front sight, rail covers, a folding rear sight and the optic. The only thing that is painted differently is the optic and the front sight. I do believe shadow was going to be sporting multicam untill they did away with it for LCV, not that multicam should be any part of the conversation because the gun is not painted multicam, I am the only one with my airsoft guns painted even close. I did a MC paint job on nates real gun and it looks mighty fine, but MC is not for everyone.