Trench Crusade: Prussian Stosstruppen from Archon Studio

       Fresh off the press we have the latest iteration of Prussians to fight the forces of Evil. Prussian Stosstruppen, those brave warriors that charge into battle without a moments hesitation. This box was provided by the good folks at Michigan Toy Soldier who are currently carrying the full line of plastic and resin miniatures for these rules. This set is produced by Archon Studio out of Poland and is molded in a solid gray plastic with no trace of flash and only the faintest hint of a mold-line. The kit will assemble into five figures that can be equipped in a variety of ways. Assembly instructions (as well as free rules and mountains of lore) can be accessed via a QR code on the outside of the package, an idea that I wholly support. These will mix well, both in size and style, with the previously released Stosstruppen Warband.

 

the front of the box, they had me at the picklehaubs! 

More mucking about with 3D animation

        I spotted this over on the Louis the XIV blog where he commented on a picture-to-3D software. I was impressed with what he had on display so I gave Meshy a try and got this as a result!

 

a picture of a Swedish Dragoon from 1676 that I grabbed as a reference from a website, 

my apologies to the artist I cannot recall where I found it 

        This is an excellent bit of artwork and would make a nice model to 3D print so I gave it a go. I just uploaded the image to the software and I got this in under two minutes. It is a full 3D model that I can export to my Bambu Mini direct from the screen!

 

 

 https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/b8045b5bb1e1478ba648db89b8c39077

       I promptly started rummaging around through old files and found this magnificent looking lad that I turned into a 3D model (the best part is that the software is so powerful that I didn't need to edit out the background shrubberies!)

 

 https://www.meshy.ai/s/3zkCaA

 

here is a screenshot of the software in action, I loaded the piture using the window in the upper left, clicked om the  "Generate" button in the lower left and a minute later had a 3D model ready to send to my printer, this is going to be a lot of fun!