Marx Giant Blue and Gray Summer

The toy soldier table has been cleared, and Navarone is just a pleasant memory.Now the scene is being set for a Louis Marx adventure as 1/32 plastic Civil War soldiers battle it out on the toy soldier table.

This is the supersized fantasy Giant Blue and Gray that I assembled a couple of years ago (lavishly profiled here)

This should be nostalgic for many readers of this blog.

Much work to do, but it's what I need to do in order to...

Soldier on!

Mannie

Navarone postscript

 Since yesterday, I've been playing around with an artificial intelligence ap.  I type in a description and images are produced. fine-tuning of the parameters will get the image closer to what I had in mind.

Here are two images of the before and after of Navarone Mountain.

My original description is the underlined text:

 a craggy, gray, forbidding mountain peak. there is a very large opening about two-thirds from the bottom of the mountain peak. extending, menacingly from the opening are the barrells of two huge artillery pieces. in the foreground, at the base of the monument is a WWII German military installation supported by pillboxes, bunkers, barbed wire and guard towers. German soldiers and tiger tanks are everywhere. all of this is under a gray and threatening sky

I got to a point of diminishing returns after too many modifications, and then the computer starts to drift away from the original concept.

But not to worry, Miss America is on the side of freedom.

The program is chat GTP.  Prepare to start wasting time.

Until next time...

Soldier on!

Mannie