[ShiShiLeo]

I finally got around to painting SO-DO Chronicles OOO TaToBa. This is one of the more expensive figures, requiring 3 boxes to complete, though you do get a lot of accessories.

Overall, the quality is much higher than Den-O, who feels very lose at all joints from the waist down. The head/neck articulation is a little stiff, which probably has something to due with the form change gimmick.



Here he is being summoned by Grand Zi-O!



And a rider kick!



You can see the lack of neck articulation really contributes to the stiff look of the kick.

In terms of painting, OOOs has a lot of good paint applications already, though the primary colors of green, yellow, and red are a bit muted. I might try adding some gloss coating to darken those colors. As always, I used a combination of gundam paint markers and the included stickers. This is based on what parts are molded and whats going to be easy to paint. For example, the yellow stickers on the sides of the chest would be very difficult to paint with detail, so the stickers work best.

I used a black Gundam marker to detail in the mask, the black stripe areas of the forearms, and the lines in the legs. The entire belt was painted silver, with some gold details on the scanner (it comes with a sticker but I went with paint here). Finally, I added some yellow paint to the glove fingers.

SO-DO continue to be incredibly fun to assemble and paint. The one thing I really dream of from the line are the trademark compound eyes. I really hope Bandai sticks with the line long enough to give us at least the 20 Heisei riders.