FINAL FANTASY IV
EVILSHEL PROJECT #609 CREATED: JULY 2018 The EvilShel was one of two kinds of dangerous mollusks that Cecil and his companions would encounter in their travels. A humongous marine bivalve, the EvilShel populated the underground Watery Pass leading to Castle Damcyan. It could frequently be found with Pikes and WaterBugs, which also patrolled the subterranean rivers flowing beneath the castle. As a water-dwelling creature, the EvilShel was particularly susceptible to lightning magic; by the time Cecil reached the Watery Pass, he had been joined by the elderly wizard Tellah and young Rydia, both capable magic-users who could dispense with these creatures quite easily. (In the Game Boy Advance remake of Final Fantasy IV, the EvilShel, whose original English-language name was limited to eight alphanumeric characters, was renamed Vile Shell.) I wanted to use a plastic sea shell for this project so that I could just glue the spikes and things directly to it (though I did, at one early stage, consider using actual sea shells to build these things). In the end, I used a sea shell that came with a Splashlings brand figure set. I built the tongue out of Sculpey modeling clay, bulking it out with crumpled-up tin foil so that the tin layer of clay baked thoroughly. The spikes adorning the creature's shell, as well as its teeth, are clay as well. |
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