These are Airifx German Paratroopers - and reside somewhere near the bottom of the height range in this scale. Next to some of the later products from Revell or Plastic Soldier Company etc. they look tiny, but the detail is great. I painted them with a basic camouflage pattern for the smocks, and panzer grey for the trousers and helmets. The bases were just given a quick dab of field grey, so they could go straight into action. I'll get round to finishing them one day...
These are Matchbox (now Revell) 1/76 German Infantry. When these first came out, I pretty much stopped buying Airfix WW2 figures. They were chunkier, and looked much more in keeping with the metal figures I yearned for but couldn't afford. I must have bought and painted 5 or 6 boxes in the 70s / early 80s. These are more recent Revell re-releases, and apart from the large amount of flash (often a sign of old moulds) they are as good as I remember them. Simple colour scheme of field grey, with black and brown for the equipment, and panzer grey for the helmets. Some got panzer grey trousers too, and a few (such as the chap on the right) got field-grey helmets.
The excellent, but flash-riddled, Revell Afrika Korps. Beautiful miniatures, slightly taller than the matchbox ones, and more realistically proportioned. The set offers good variety of equipment, so I varied the equipment colours as I went - with sand, field grey, panzer grey, and dark yellow all featuring.
More Revell Afrika Korps. All my smaller WW2 miniatures are based on card circles, topped with ground covering (in this case just painted milliput, though they'll get textured eventually too). The card circles are then stuck to pennies to stop them falling over, and to make them easier to pick up and move. As a bonus, they can also be stored vertically on magnetic strip (the sticky-back kind you can buy in craft shops, which can be used to line box files).
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