FINAL FANTASY IV
SOLDIER PROJECT #644 CREATED: FEBRUARY 2020 Soldiers were men from the country of Baron who had been recruited by the King to fight for the common good. They wore their uniforms proudly, and never wavered in their dedication. After Golbez took control of the kingdom, he used Baron's troopers to enforce his will. An Officer took several Soldiers with in to confront Cecil, former Captain of the Red Wings fleet, after he was found in the desert town of Kaipo and colluding with one of the Callers of Mist. Cecil was a far more skilled combatants than any of them, however, and made quick work of the Officer and his Soldiers. (In both the Game Boy Advance and PlayStation Portable remake of Final Fantasy IV, the Soldier was renamed Baron Soldier. In the Nintendo DS version, I think they gave him the wrong game sprite, since he appears blue instead of red, as he does in the S-NES game.) My Soldier action figure was made from a Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog action figure named Angus (I needed four of these, and I wanted to build them out of toys that I hadn't used for any previous projects). I had to add a new face, giving him one from a WWE Shawn Michaels action figure. The sword is from a Marvel Legends Silver Samurai figure. Of these four projects, the Soldier is the most heavily-weathered, exhibiting much more battle damage than the Fighter or General or Officer. |
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