[ShiShiLeo]

It's my absolute pleasure to present my favorite Heisei Kamen Rider in SHODO-X Form. My my my how detailed they are. Painting wasn't as bad as I expected because the soft plastic takes the paint very well.



No doubt in my mind that the SHODO-X line is an artistic mini-figure line made by people with who truly love the source material. The quality in paint, articulation, and accessories makes SHODO feel like the best value in candy toys.

First up is Kabuto in Rider Form.





Most of the paint is silver details on the feet and hands. Some black liner paint within the silver details and a little gold touch up on the zecter. Those little weapons are cast entirely in black. Fun to paint! (that was sarcasm)

Interesting to note how the shoulder armor is done here. The Kabuto figures use soft plastic shoulder pads that are connected to the chest armor which allows the shoulder pads to move without the use and fuss of hinges.

Next up lets look at Kamen Rider Super-1



A beautiful and simple figure only requiring a little silver paint on the top of his shoulders. But those gloves, oh boy those gloves! I consider myself to have great eyesight, but I was tested here. The end result is really great though with tiny details that look fantastic. When I was younger, I had a Super-1 figure with changeable hands and my child self thought it was the neatest gimmick of all time.

For the final piece, we have a truly magnificent figure. Hyper Kabuto!



Pictures simply don't do it justice. Despite thinking Kabuto's base suit is one of the best suit designs of all time, I'm not too fond on Hyper Kabuto, though I do love how it reminds me of B-Fighter's Blue Beet.



The SHODO-X release has optional parts to enter Hyper Form Clock Up Mode which includes effect parts for the jets. Bandai did a wonderful job on the paint application, even though my particular figure had its share of mispaint. Still, I could not resist adding even more detail.

I painted the right foot to match the show suit and sanded away parts of the left foot to better match the show. Red metallic paint was added to the thigh armor (perhaps the biggest omission), gold paint in the shoulder vents, and silver and black highlights throughout.

Surprisingly, the Perfect Zecter had lots of detail to paint with each of the other Zecters being separate parts (aside from ZaBee's).



SHODO-X are quite impressive. I don't normally collect them, but as Kabuto is my favorite Heisei Rider, I decided to add the set to my collection. Hopefully it doesn't awaken the collector mentality in me. I'm perfectly fine with SO-DO... I think.

Anyway my Kabuto collection grows every larger. I'll post an image with all my Kabuto stuff soon.

Lastly I'll end with a fun picture I took to justify buying a Wonder Ride Book.

Kamen Rider Buster: Okay kids, time to gather around for the story of the strongest Kamen Rider of all time!