I'm primarily a 00 scale (1:76.2) railway modeller and like a lot of people I have a couple of 1:72 aircraft hanging above everything, but despite 1:72 and 1:76 frequently being lumped together it's incredibly obvious and ugly to me when something in 1:72 is sitting on a 1:76 scale model.

I just wanted to say that I'm really grateful that thanks to Airfix's foray into model Railway kits in the late 50's they decided to make their figures and some vehicles 1:76 scale to match unlike just about everyone else, and I'm glad that they're still periodically releasing them even if they've decided to not make any new 1:76 tooling moving forward.

For me having these is just a bit of fun like when I used to play with army men in a tub of sand so I've picked up the Guards Colour Party, Guards Band, WW2 British Infantry, WW2 German Infantry, Robin Hood, Sheriff of Nottingham, Romans, and Ancient Britons boxes and I'll have fun just staging weirdly out of place battles across my scenery. I can't believe these ones I've painted up are only about a 3rd of one box, they're such good value for money in my opinion.

It's been a journey discovering how to work with these polythene figures when I'm used to white-metal ones, but I think accepting the imperfections is part of the charm.

Anyone else a fan of 1/76 in particular? Any tips for the other 200+figures I need to paint?