At long last… Cammy

Done with leggy Cammy-chan This one “only” took 5 months to finish

Dusty Cammy

I picked some stone shards from the neighborhood and sifted through to get the right sized debris for the ground work. I created the dust “splash” with celluclay originally, but it has its limitations and the outcome looks like peeled banana skin Then I plastered some Mori2 on top to create more spikes, which works better but still not convincing. I think putting on some grey-dyed cotton would do the trick, but since I don’t have any, I decided to look into what the vaccum cleaner can offer in terms of dust It’s actually very convincing, with the carpet fiber mixed with with pieces of larger “debris”, with one issue – hair :green:. I had to pull a lot of hair out of these clumps of dust balls since they give the whole thing away Then spray on some light mist of greys and it’s done. The final version should look better when the greys are not all mushed up.

Still a number of final touch ups to go, hang on and don’t go work on those Gunpla now Cody :green:

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.

Flying Cammy

I was partially done with the Yukishiro Cammy and was trying to test fit her against her base (yes I should’ve done it earlier ). Wow! I didn’t realize she was only hinged to the base via her hand. Now her pose makes more sense to me, and I have some ideas about possible bases to make. Previously I thought she was posing dynamically for the sake of posing

Cammieeeessssss

I don’t get new kits often these days, but when two cool Cammy’s arrived I’m still quite excited
This is the masterful Reflect’s Cammy kit. The packaging is just a bit overdone! Loads of empty checkboxes to be filled in for custom declarations, and the famous “Do not ship liquids, blood or fluids in this packaging” warning on the side
I’m planning to alter her so that she’s in her Delta Red costume. Always like it better than her Shadowloo one.

The second one is Yukishiro’s Cammy, which is pretty rare since he only issued it once. This kit is also special in that it doesn’t have his usual “great pose, wacked face” problem that his other kits like Mai, Chunli and Vanessa have. I’ll work on this one first. I don’t yet have any good mod/diorama ideas for her though, so suggestions are welcomed.