June 23, 2007 on 4:31 pm | In WIP, Works, Models
My usually busy June has kept me silent since I finished Cammy, but I’ve worked on and off on this Azumanga Daioh’s Kagura-san in school swimsuit, trying to finish her up in time for summer. Here she is…
The kit was a lot of fun to build - tried a few new interesting techniques, but none very difficult, and the outcomes are quite satisfactory. What more can a modeler asks for 
By the way, a reminder that the GK Japan modeling contest deadline is fast approaching (8/31!), unless you’re an incredibly fast builder, stop procastinating! 
June 3, 2007 on 4:26 pm | In Cammy2, WIP, Works, Models
Finally finished up the rest of the detailing for her. I made some last ditch effort to shorten her beret and see if I could have her hold it, but it just didn’t look as good if she didn’t. Ah well. At least I think I managed to put it together with the boots without making the trio look too crowded.
Boy she’s another kit that felt like it takes forever~~~~
For Cammy I made a few choices I don’t usually make, like having her eyes staring straight. Usually I find eyes staring sideways give the figure more intensity; but in this case, I’d like the figure to be viewable from both the front and the back, so I had to compromise by the middle stare. Clickity click the pic below to visit her gallery.
Some stuff I didn’t mention during the WIP… Her hair pieces are cast in clear resin which is nice, but is rather hard to take advantage of. In fact I wish there weren’t in clear so that I didn’t have to pressure myself to make the braids transparent Anyway I learned lessons such as “don’t do a wash on clear parts with oil” and “don’t do a wash on clear parts with regularly thinned clear paint” 
I eventually washed them with very thin clear, otherwise the pieces will look a bit dirty. After a thin layer of base color with drybrushed interference gold, I think I managed to preserver a little bit of the translucency of the braids.
Although I didn’t use the blonde eyebrows I bought for her eyebrows, I found them extremely good as stray hair 
The single bang she had is a bit weird on a real type figure; it might have worked better in her Shadowloo uniform because of the cap? Anyway may be I should’ve installed a second stray bang that’s usually visible in her character pics, but I think the stray hair works ok in making the bang less weird. As to why I didn’t use blond eyebrows… they’re actually quite hard to spot, and may end up making her look eyebrowless
