48/62 Completed. . .

 

Just 14 human figures plus two flags left to pain.  And a horse.  His name is Trigger.  Of course.  I wanna be a cowboy!

Up very early today (5:15am) for two hours of quiet 'me time' before waking The Young Master for his first day of 6th Grade with breakfast and other related early morning activities.  Paul will turn 12 in a little over two months!  Where does the time go?

Anyway, following a mug of coffee and email down here in Zum Stollenkeller, it occurred to me that I might as well spend an hour finishing the white hat trim on the remaining eight figures in the forefront of the photograph above.  With the exception of a few very minor touch-ups and cleaning up a few edges, I've now completed 48 figures for my version of The Schaumburg-Lippe-Bückeburg Infantry regiment.  

The back of this particular project is now well and truly broken although drummers and flags always make me a bit nervous in the run up to tackling and completing these important components of a line infantry formation.  Best not to overthink things to much and simply get on with it.  As a textbook on public speaking used to advise, for a course I taught on the subject in my first job after graduate school, we don't want to "awfulize" future events.

And apropos of nothing, I've managed to find a way around the temperamental PixlrX online photo editor.  For some reason, it has decided not to cooperate any longer with Firefox, which is my preferred browser.  

However, opening the application in Google Chrome seems to work nicely.  Except that I cannot save the edited image directly into a folder on my desktop but must first find it in the download folder, before opening and finally saving the edited and cropped image to the preferred folder on the computer desktop.  

Sigh.   The tangled web we must weave for even recreational activities in the 21st century!

I suppose it is an issue with my operating system on this particular PC, which is an older version of Windows that is no longer supported.  That's just my uneducated guess of course.  The main thing is that I am able once again to edit and crop my photos.   

-- Stokes