FINAL FANTASY IV
FLOATEYE PROJECT #605.1 CREATED: MAY 2018 REVISED: MARCH 2020 The FloatEye was one of the stranger creatures soaring through the skies over the country of Baron. When monsters began appearing all over the world, the bizarre and twisted nature of the FloatEye was clear indicator that something was deeply wrong. Cecil Harvey battled several of them on board the flight deck of his Red Wings flagship, even before he and Kain were dispatched by the King and began their world-spanning adventures together. FloatEyes could also occasionally be found outside Baron castle, sometimes traveling with Eagles (or perhaps trying to chase them down and eat them). They were not particularly powerful creatures, but their very existence hinted at much more dangerous forces working behind the scenes, orchestrating the genesis of some of the most dangerous creatures in existence. (The name of the FloatEye was truncated in the Super Nintendo release of Final Fantasy IV due to alphanumeric character limitations. The creature was called the Floating Eye in the Nintendo DS remake of the game, and Floating Eyeball in the Game Boy Advance version.) This is actually the third version of the FloatEye that I've built! A few years ago, I realized that I had built a lot of heroes from the game, but I wanted to have at least one monster. I had selected the FloatEye because he's fairly iconic (he's the first monster that appears in the game, during a cut scene at the beginning). I made him out of a Monsters University action figure and the wings from a Dragonheart Razorthorn dragon (project #551, created in 2015). Later, when I decided to try to build all the monsters from Final Fantasy IV, I realized I would need to either duplicate what I'd done the first time (so the new projects would match the old one), or start over and build all four from scratch. I decided to just redo this guy because it was easier to acquire new parts than to try to hunt down the ones I'd used originally. What I wasn't expecting was that I'd end up ripping off the old wings and replacing them a couple of years later, as well as completely redoing the paint job. |
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