[Blade Raider]

Since I've been on a roll with SO-DO, I decided to give ShodoVS some love.

Stronger




I'm not that familiar with Stronger, but one look at the toy and you can tell it needs paint. The abs, belt, and back were unpainted or missing a lot. The stripes were left unfinished as well.

X Rider


Mainly just painted the scarf and the red on the back. He was among the simplest of these. Only others more simple is finishing Rider 1's, 2's, and Shocker Rider's silver stripes on their helmets (which I didn't bother with pictures of)

Amazon



I only painted one thing, but it was a lot of one thing. The red patterns all over the body were barely painted out of the box. They only painted the front, but my copy had even less as one leg was only quarter painted. Thankfully there's sculpting for the pattern, otherwise I would never have completed it. The secret to painting all these small details is toothpicks.

Black




Black is the only ShodoVS figure to not have the belt paint go all the way around. In fact, all of Black's issues are related to that. All of the stripes were just painted on the front. This one bugs me because if they had cut the hand joint at a different place they would've had plenty of the paint budget left to paint them all properly. Anyways, I finished all the stripes. The only thing I couldn't fix was the purple.