Toy Soldier Christmas Decoration aka Nutcracker

Christmas Decoration - Toy Soldier

This is a toy soldier in military dress uniform with a tall hat and epaulettes on the shoulders like a typical decorative Christmas nutcracker.

This is a remix in which I just removed the branding from the original. I also scaled it down to be 100 mm tall, which seemed large enough until I started printing it. You'll probably want to scale it up to the maximum Z height for your printer.

Since it has such a small footprint compared to the height and it has some overhangs which may curl up while printing, I would highly recommend printing with a brim. You can even leave the brim on as it provides a nice base to stabilize the model.

The only areas that really needs supports are the hands, but they're such small areas that I printed without any supports and just clipped off the couple of layers that were printed in the air. The second photo shows the model as it was printed without supports and before any cleanup.

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