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Cast off, change beetle!

Kamen Rider Kabuto






Arriving at hyper speed, Kamen Rider Kabuto joins the SO-DO Chronicle line. Kabuto is my no. 1 favorite Kamen Rider suit. The SO-DO version is not bad. Although the detail is there, however the silver stickers are not as shiny as they appear in adverts or on the box.

It's neat that they were able to do the Cast Off gimmick but the process to do it is actually pretty cumbersome. Doing it too much will definitely wear at my paint job, so I'll likely never use the option.

For the paint, Gundam EX Silver on all the grey/silver parts (jaw, shoulder pads, wrists, ankles, boots, belt, ribs). Flat black on the chest piece, rear chest armor, and shoulder pads. The Zector was painted in metallic red, gold, and gunmetal. I did not paint any of the Masked form armor, but I will probably go back and add silver to the all the hand guards.

Kabuto's horn and holding hands are made from a soft pliable plastic. These swappable hands combined with the various weapons really set the SO-DO Chronicle line apart from the regular SO-DO line. Those weapons really start to look goofy without hilts and handles.

The Kabuto suit looks really dynamic and agile, but ironically he has one of the stiffer fighting styles in all of Heisei. The SO-DO incarnation has a very good waist joint, a clear attempt at giving him his signature Ricker Kick pose, but it still doesn't come off looking good.

I now have Kabuto in SHF, Figure-Rise Standard, Shodo-x, SODO, Converge, vinyl, souchaku henshin, keychain, and various gashapon. I will have to do a size comparison soon.