True to form, the moment I post a whine the guilt turns to inspiration and action.
So there were several images I took of an egg in various poses (as much as I could coax out of my model) and started working in Flash 8 with the timeline. It started to work. Then I started to fiddle around too much without knowing what I was doing, and I lost it all so I have to start from scratch.
Now the model wants higher scale plus portfolio for a retake.