It's the end of March and, thanks to COVID-19 taking control of the world as we know it, the local school has shut down and my kids cannot be trusted to stay home all day by themselves. So, I've been watching them and yelling at them and occasionally painting toys.
Since I had some extra time, I really went all out with these projects, rebuilding almost every aspect of the original action figures. I won't tell you what they are yet, but if you have any sort of familiarity with the monsters of Final Fantasy IV, you may already have a guess based on the above quote. If not, I guess you'll just have to wait a few more days. They'll be ready soon!
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So, not too long after I finished up a batch of four flying eyeball monsters from Final Fantasy IV, my daughter, who was about five years old at the time, decided to sneak them off my display shelf and play with them when I wasn't looking. I've explained to her that the toys that I've painted are only meant for looking at, not for touching, but that didn't stop her from trying to flap the wings, chipping paint off all over the place. She denies having done any of this, but I have several keen-eyed cats reporting to me, and they totally saw her do it. The truth is that I was never completely pleased with the wings, but of course I was limited by what existed on the market at the time. About two years later, I saw some How to Train Your Dragon toys in stores and kicked myself for not waiting and using those wings instead. Well, I generally don't make it a habit of redoing projects, but these toys needed to be repaired anyway. I figured as long as I was working on them, I would tear the old wings off and rebuild them. And, to be honest, they're immeasurably better for it. I also completely repainted the toys and they look so much better than they did the first time I worked on them. But, don't tell my daughter. So, without further ado, I'm very pleased to present the new-and-improved versions of the FatalEye, the FloatEye, the Plague, and the Red Eye. Since this was technically a redo, and not a new project unveiling, I'm going to try to squeeze in another project for March. Thanks to the coronavirus, the kids are out of school and I'm home with them for the next week [editor's note: more like four months!], so I imagine I'll have quite a bit of down time. I guess we'll see how it goes! Better late than never, I always say. Only roughly a week after I planned, I can finally unveil my latest batch of projects. These knights typically ganged up on Cecil Harvey in teams, with the high-ranking officer barking orders to the lower-ranking troopers. Defeat the low-ranking troops, though, and the armored commander in charge will always run away. What a coward. Anyway, I'm pleased to unveil the Fighter, General, Officer, and Soldier, all of which were renamed various other things when Final Fantasy IV was updated and ported to different game systems. But, I'm a Super Nintendo purist (ask me how many years it took me to stop calling it Final Fantasy II) so I always go with the original names for these guys. It's just how I roll. |
DAVID GRAHAM EDWARDS
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