One of the reasons model kits were such a good fit for Kamen Rider was that accessories were very easy to include. Just put it on the runner and slap a bunch of stickers on it!

Though now I feel like the quality of the kits has really gone up and they can't get away with that as much anymore.

I mean Faiz has everything you need to make Axel Form, you just have to paint it, so you're right on the money.

Plus depending on how they gate these kits, I could see alt forms and other Riders be easy. Agito uses Kuuga parts, and Decade is suspiciously gated with all the Decade-specific parts on their own runners, with much to the shared parts between him and Diend on the same runner. Ryuki also had the majority of the base suit on a runner with obvious gates where the Ryuki-specific parts were, meaning a retool into Knight is highly possible.

In fact I notice a lot of these kits have gated-off sections on the eyes and such. I think there may be "master eye moulds" that are selectively gated for whatever Rider they need, with obvious blunted protrusions leading nowhere on the runners.

I hope Bandai doesn't waste this opportunity. This line could be a fantastic alternative to the more expensive and hard-to-find Figuarts, especially of older characters. (model kits tend to be produce din larger numbers and be reprinted, unlike Figuarts)

I'd be happy if they just stuck to main riders and some easy popular preban retools/repaints, but if this line exploded and started to cover all sorts of stuff I'd be over the moon! God, just thinking of them doing guys like Chalice and Shadow Moon and Rogue...

Just finished painting Fourze. The orange stripes were definitely the hardest part about it. Overall it was a pretty fun build. Even panel lining the suit was a blast. The lines filled in so easily and looked great!

Word of warning: be really careful with the antennae. I barely touched them while moving his head and one of them snapped in two.

If you aren't planning on painting the kit, the stickers that come with it look really good for the orange stripes and the colors out of the box are spot on outside of the driver.

That turned out pretty good! Did you paint behind the eyes or leave it white?

I just realized we're only four main Riders away before Heisei is complete. (Blade, Wizard, Gaim, Drive, and Ghost unless I'm missing anyone) I wonder if we'll finally move on to secondary Riders/alt forms or go into Showa?

Kiva. And that makes 6 to go. You said 4 but listed 5.

I hope we get all of them next year, though that would be very ambitious.

We'll probably see more alternative forms and easy secondaries before any Showa.

We'll at the very least see #1 and #2 imo. But yeah, uh, going by FRS' previous scheduling we should see maybe four of the remaining Heiseis knocked out next year! Quite excited for it

God damn it wasn't even late or anything how did I fuck that up so bad? :lol

Also yeah, totally forgot Kiva. That's going to be interesting, what with all the small paint details on the suit. I image the chest will require stickers or paint for the black lines.

OOO has introduced Tampographing for the chest medal, so perhaps we could see that for other difficult intricate details going forward?