Hello friends:
Frankenstein was a pleasant diversion, but it's back to business, and for the last two weeks I've been working in God's Own Scale, clearing off some old lead and newly printed resin from the Napoleonics side of my workbench.' I've found that the downside of 3D printing is how easy it is to add to the painting pile! I'm waiting for a machine that prints spare time.
Here are some French Voltiguer skirmishers, 3D prints from MC Miniatures, which you can find on My Mini Factory. Several of the rules I currently use, Sam Mustafa's LaSalle 2 and General D'Armee from Reisswitz Press/TFL, allow for most infantry units to throw out skirmishers ahead of the main stand. These cheap and cheerful prints would allow me to cover a brigade or a division, depending on the scale.
Finally, some printed cavalry, Napoleonic Russian Cossacks. These are 3D prints, also from MC Miniatures. They print in long strips, which are easier to handle than the Baccus figures which are cast on strips of three, and they're a lot easier to paint, though the end result is a little wooden. However, it's a fairly easy way to get masses of troops done, and I hope to be exploring the 1812 Russian campaign in the coming year, so I'm going to need lots of troops.
These are actually two command stands, I need to print and paint two more strips of troopers to get two complete regiments. A friend on Twitter suggested finding some Orthodox icons, shrinking them, and printing them, to serve as banners. I thought it worked well.
