Setting the base

Wrapped the I-beams with water putty to get some texture, and smoothed them out. The pillars and beams are kind of set, only a couple more or the base would be too cluttered. The wire mesh around the tilted beam is the support for the splash created by the impact of the beam.

As advertised…

… an update! I’m working on the flying Cammy-chan. I’m always bothered by the I-beam she’s using as support, and I think the only diorama that’d fit is something like a construction site. So here we go.

The idea is to have her jumping over some collapsing structures, and she just avoided the danger of a flying I-beam aimed that the spot she’s just skipped over:

There’d of course be more rocks/debris/cast I-beams/pillars than what’s there right now.

The I-beams are made from balsa wood and would be wrapped with celluclay. The pillars are also made that way:

Wrapping celluclay somewhat uniformly around the square beam is quite a chore. I used an Elmer glue bottle to flatten them out, and then dremel off the excess when the clay dries.

Yuuuuukikaze!

Just finished Yukikaze tonight, a sci-fi OVA mixed with great aerial combat scenes. I said earlier that I like Macross Zero for its aerial fight scenes, but Yukikaze’s make up for the lack of flashy missle chases with very realistic cockpit-centric angles and stylish goosebump moments! The whole alien(JAMs)-human struggle backdrop is quite interesting, but I think the OVAs don’t have enough time to explore the complex story offered in the original novel. Which is not a problem, I really enjoyed the combat scenes! The first 4 episodes offered some really intriguing fights, but the last episode is something else. First we were treated to how Yukikaze singlehandedly (literally, since its pilot Lt. Fukai is not onboard) wiped out an army. There are some crazy Star Wars-like first-person view of Yukikaze going thru some complex flight paths… nice! Then in the last half we’re treated to the combination of Lt. Fukai and Yukikaze as a man-machine superior being that provides the crucial trump card. But Yukikaze doesn’t fight alone, it commanded 3 unmmaned clones of itself (Knights) in a spiraling formation.. OMGOMGOMG! Too cool.

Everytime I watched an episode I wanted to build a Mave. But now that I’ve seen the final episode version of Yukikaze LOADED with gazillion missiles, I want that version instead. It looks sort of insane with all those missle tail flags sticking out on top and bottom of its wings!