#FinalFantasyVIIR

[the-enzyme]

My August 2024 toy haul arrived, finally! I am always happy with all the toys I purchase, otherwise, I wouldn't purchase them. I only wish I could have gotten doubles of Adorable Arts Zack, and another Giyu Noodle Stopper. I kind of regret not getting a Cloud B.A. to unbox, but those are a bit too rich for my blood (the exception was Sephy, because I love him so much). As are the Adorable Arts, and the reason why I only got one of Zack this time, and regret that to no tomorrow, because I love him more than I do Cloud, and I did get doubles of him.... T__T;;

From top left, to far bottom right; Square Enix Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Adorable Arts Zack Fair; Square Enix Final Fantasy VII Series Tin Shaped Glass ILLUSTRATION; FuRyu Anime "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba" Noodle Stopper Figure -Giyu Tomioka- (Game-prize) Non Scale Figure; Movic Black Butler: Public School Arc Cup & Saucer Motif: Square Enix Final Fantasy VII Bring Arts Cloud Strife Non-Scale Action Figure; Culture Entertainment Black Butler Public School Arc Slide Card Case; Philter, Inc Anime "Black Butler: Public School Arc" Acrylic Stand; Philter, Inc Anime "Black Butler: Public School Arc" Clear File.

The Black Butler teacup is beautiful, I was afraid I wouldn't be able to place the carboard insert holding the cup in the box back, so I didn't take photos of the saucer/plate. Which I am sure arrived intact, because the cup is intact and that's probably more prone to breaking, if anything is to break in transit (or so I hope!). The FFVIIR can shaped glass arrived pristine, so I am hoping the (Black Butler) plate did as well. I am a collector, so I get these tableware items from anime/Japanese-video-games, only as collectables, and not to actually use -- I am a weirdo, in case I don't say that often. (;

[fantasycloudnet]

After drawing chocobos, I wanted to portray a cute kitty...

[hazelgateau]

Cloud becomes a regular at a place he thought was a spa https://baelfonrazul.tumblr.com/

[the-enzyme]

My first "official" toy-haul for 2024 got here a few days ago, but I was too busy trying to prepare my Sessho's head sculpt for repainting him, that I kind of forgot to resize these photos. DX Also, shipping... that was so ridiculous! For no reason!

From far left to front bottom right: Arma Bianca NARUTO Shippuden New Illustration Sasuke Uchiha Japanese Outfit w/Oilpaper Umbrella ver. A3 Matte Finished Poster; Banpresto Rebuild of Evangelion Q posket - Kaworu Nagisa Plugsuit Style- A (Game-prize) Non-Scale Figure; Shimizu Industry Attack on Titan The Final Season Hologram Tin Badge Set Eren Yeager; Tapioca Attack on Titan Kurumitapinui Sticker Set A; BanprestoNARUTO Shippuden VIBRATION STARS -UCHIHA SASUKE & DEIDARA- Sasuke Uchiha (Game-prize) Non-Scale Figure; BanDai Spirits Figuarts "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom mini Athrun Zala & Kira Yamato Non-Scale Figures; MegaHouse LookUp Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Byakuya Kuchiki Complete None-Scale Figure; Bushiroad Creative PalVerse Pale. Attack on Titan Eren Yeager Complete None-Scale Figure; Ichiban Kuji Premium Nisio Isin Anime Project H Prize - KyunChara Koyomi Araragi (Game-prize) Non-Scale Figure; A3 Chara Acrylic Figure "BORUTO -NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS-" 03/ Sasuke Uchiha Tarot ver. (New Illustration); A3 (PU) Leather Sticky Notes Book "BORUTO -NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS-" 05/ Sasuke & Sakura Tarot ver. (New Illustration); A3 Acrylic Coaster Stand "BORUTO -NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS-" 02/ Sasuke Uchiha Tarot ver. (New Illustration); Square Enix FINAL FANTASY VII EVER CRISIS x Peko&Poko Acrylic Keychain Sephiroth, Cloud & Zack; Arma Bianca NARUTO Shippuden New Illustration Sasuke Uchiha Japanese Outfit w/Oilpaper Umbrella ver. BIG Acrylic Keychain.

Also got an Eren Yeager Final Season Hugcot mini figure, which I am very happy with. All these figs I am super glad I got. The FFVII keychains, the Sasuke stuff. The Byakuya look up figure is adorable! The only thing I am pissed with, is the freaking extra-mega-large shipping box. For absolutely no reason whatsoever! *sigh* There went over $100USD thrown down the drain, for literal no reason. I'm super angry at that, I probably won't recover from it soon enough in a literally sense, and monetarily.

[the-enzyme]

I decided to fully-repaint my GT 1:6 scale action figure Sephiroth. I had planned on just cleaning up the lower lids a bit more. I thought that the default paint was strong enough that 90+ percentage isopropyl alcohol wouldn’t remove it, but I was wrong. I had an extremely hard time removing the paint on the lips, so I thought I would be able to only partially remove my heavy pastel shading with alcohol without damaging the factory paint, but that turned out to be a miscalculation on my part. It was just the gloss they used on the lips. They did give this head a few top layers that were easy to remove and damage with alcohol alone, the sad part is that it got into my gloss damaging my repainted irises. 

That was the whole reason why I didn’t want to fully repaint this head, because I was okay with the eyes, just the lower eye-lids looking heavily make-up-looking, was what bothered me to no tomorrow.  Just as I dreaded, I wasn’t able to get the irises as bright and cyan/blue as I got them last time. I also wasn’t able to get them as detailed, but I also f-ed up the right one with the doming/glossing bit. Which I also dread to do, because I know how it’s supposed to be done, I just can’t seem to get it done right. DX

Regardless, I am happy with him for now! He doesn’t look like he’s wearing a thousand pounds of eye makeup, so that’s all that really matters to me. The fact that I have no fear now, of damaging the irises anymore (because they turned out like crap!), is kind of freeing in a way. I can always try again as many times as I feel like it, because I know I painted the whole thing myself. I don’t have to fear I’ll ruin something. I was okay with the factory paint minus the lips and eyes, which are the most important to me, as far as character accuracy goes. So now, I just have to keep trying and try to improve along the way! This is only the second head sculpt I paint in the 1:6 action figure customizing style, with acrylics alone, so I think I can hope to improve some. (:

My aim was never to mimic the prototype, because there’s no way in h3ll I’ll ever have that level of precision at that scale, my hands are just not steady enough to paint such clean sharp lines. As can be seen from my crap-lashes. However, I didn’t like the factory done mass-produced final product, it wasn’t close nor “pretty looking” to me. So, that’s why I wanted to attempt repainting mine some, to look more accurate to Sephiroth and less like a mass-produced figure, that failed to reach the perfection that was the prototype’s painting style. I included the last comparison photo just to show what he was supposed to look like, what he looked like out of package, and my partial and full repainting attempts so far. As well as a progress photo. I sealed this only twice, which is why I love not using pastels. BX

[fantasycloudnet]

The other day reading a new passage from Final Fantasy VII: Trace of Two Pasts I got hyped with the idea of drawing... chocobos!

[fantasycloudnet]

"The Amazing Yuffie wants you!"

[fantasycloudnet]

My second digital drawing! I felt like I had some debt with Tifa (one of FFVII´s memorable characters) and wanted to make tribute to the end of the Tokyo Olympics. So here it is... Thank you =)