I finally figured it out. I am playing paper dolls. Just about exactly 70 years ago when I was about in the second grade I suffered an attack of "paper doll envy" watching my two female cousins and their friends at play. I let it be known that I would also like a paper doll book. My (very wise) mother made sure that I got to visit the local Five and Dime and get a paper doll book. She would have NEVER reacted negatively and just watched to see how things went. Here I am 70 years later still playing dolls but his time in computer space and 3d with my Spitfire project and C4D. Here is the latest:
It was not long before my paper dolls of 70 years ago were sporting bandages, slings and carrying all manner of cut-out weaponry. Soon they would fall victims of the "trash burn". Those were the days when breakfast cereal came in carton collections of various "flavors". Each little box could be opened individually to receive milk and sugar or honey. The boxes went out with the trash and each week or two it was my task to incinerate the collection of burnable stuff and to put the tin cans, etc. into a big box for transport to the local land-fill and rat farm. I carefully arranged the trash and cereal boxes in rows and populated them with my now discarded paper dolls. A few fire crackers left over from the 4th were placed strategically and the "stage" set fire. And that ended my paper-doll period ... something akin to the Picasso Blue Period. I went back to slingshots, model airplanes, improvised explosives and other activities of exquisite boyishness violence. And here I am again 70 years later playing paper dolls again. Hmmmmmmm. I have learned how to control the reflectivity of the "brain bucket", added seams, refined the headphones and added wiring. Each of these steps is worth two or three hours of research and trial and error in C4D. I am posting this via blogger because G+ (much to its detraction) is not much of a platform for any kind of lengthy written communications. In fact a great many of the images posted do not give a clue about their "back story".
