#duckpond stuff

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https://www.goodsmile.com/en/product/1145060/Claude

!!!!!!!!!!

Lil late, but Claude has joined the battle!!!!!!!

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I have recently discovered that Time Team is on YouTube, so it's a nice change of pace to watch a bunch of archaeology-adjacent people dig up random British hillsides and gardens and get excited over bits of pot the size of my thumbnail, while I crochet and have a cuppa.

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I was looking for info on Morfis, to see if there was anything other than "name of the city and also the desert that surrounds the city" that I could use to guesstimate a real world equivalent (which I did not find, sad times, headcanons welcomed) and remembered the game has cut content for trading with places!

So I looked it up, and found:

Which doesn't help me with my Morfis problem, but does contain interesting tidbits!

Like, Derdriu has factories! What sort of factories we don't know, but they're there! And the Zolton swords come from Sreng! And Lorenz grew up surrounded by the smell of cow shit, which is probably why he's constantly waving his hand in front of his face. Enbarr is packed to the brim, and Edmund territory is very very sea based.

I don't know what to now do with this info, since as cut content it isn't exactly canon, but it was going to be at one point (before the mechanic got removed) and I feel like there are enough holes in what canon is there that these bits might as well fit in?

Link to wiki

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Can't work on wyvern till I get bones printed. Can't work on Claude until I get his eyes and hair. No point making my oc doll till I also get her eyes and hair

So time to play with my birthday presents =3

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The matching teapot for my Fodlan teaparty is going well! Relatively

So I've talked about it before (back when I was trying to break blender making the raised pattern before I discovered sculpting), but I want the matching teapot from tea time to match the official teacup. And the game files for the teapot were online for me to find. Which is great! I can make the teapot!

I started again from scratch (because I found out if you subdivide with smoothness on then it doesn't end up looking quite so 8-bit), and scaled it to the right size, and then split it into bits so I can print in vaguely the right colours so I have to faff les with painting. And also reprint less pieces when I inevitably break things <__<;;

But now that all the simple bits are sorted (and I fixed the broken bits that this print revealed) I'm left with trying to do the pattern in the three complex sections, the two red/gold bands and the white with gold swirls and the Seiros Crest.

And my options are to keep trying to sculpt the patterns onto the overlay piece, and then paint the raised bits gold:

Which is fine, and it works as can be seen, but the Seiros dragon ends up looking a little... yeah

Or I try to mess around with this knife function, and cut the section into a bunch of pieces that I then jigsaw together after printing in the right colours so no painting involved at all!

(If I can work out how to make it cut the same shape through both layers of the mesh, that is. It isn't working right now, and while I COULD figure a work around... I don't wanna)

But I gotta say, neither option seems overly great for the red/gold bands. I'm assuming it's meant to be the same as what's on the cups, which is. Hmmmm.

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Got the barbies game files out again because I wanted to see how big Failnaught was, because reasons, and

I am so mad that Claude's model is 1.769, when in game he's meant to be 180cm tall??? Could the devs really not have stretched him out just that little bit more??? Or do I take this as just Claude fudging the truth in game and deciding to round up, because he thinks that extra cm makes a difference to how people see him? I goofed. He's 175cm in game. Also goofed on the 1.769 being 1 cm less than 1.8, but shhhhh, everyone can keep ignoring that

Failnaught is how big?!?!?!?!?!? If I've done my maths right, then to Claude's 180cm Failnaught is 153.44cm 175cm Failnaught is 149.18cm. Which is just wild to me. I know he's on a wyvern most of the time, but how is he not tripping over this thing?

I don't want to see anyone calling him weak or having noodle archer arms ever again, given how effortlessly he waves around this bone and tendon monstrosity one handed

And incidentally, it's always bothered me that Claude apparently didn't get to grow during the timeskip. But, I present as evidence that he did get taller:

His bootheel got smaller =3

(And also in Hopes he's 177???)

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Playing Three Hopes (because I will get these last three achievements and max out my Deer to level 120 with as many classes finished as I can and end on a full-recruit-everyone's-happy run damnit) and I am endlessly amused by how every time I have Claude use "Hide Presence" he then immediately stands up in the wyverns saddle, while it's flying, and jumps like 20 foot in the air while throwing arrows around like confetti and seemingly drawing aggro from everyone

Sir. Sir I think we might be having a translation issue over what hiding your presence means???

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Aww yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah

Preorders seem to be available btw