How we named our 1/72 figures?

[Wiking]

The youth get its own (local) language for several things.

In my youth and as an earwitness several years later on I hear the same simple main description for our 1/72, 1/76 soft plastic figures.

"kleine Amis"
"little American soldier"

And this description is NOT for the railway figures in 1/87.

And today ?
I ask my nephews. They saw some of my figures several years ago. If you are young and see something of interest you immediately can`t live without it. So they get some of my Revell and Airfix figures. And they are the only one who get such figures ! Non of her friends owns such figures they told me.
They called it: "Plastcfiguren (Plasticfigures) or Männicans (I don`t know how to translate that, sorry. The closest translation I know of would be something like, little man`s ).

[Susofrick]

I have always called them "smågubbar" which translates very well to "little men".

[Paul]

Well, I started the naming with Aaran and after roughly 2000 english names, finished with Zachery. Very difficult to write them on the bases, especially with a normal ink pen. Some female names but there weren´t that many female bods back then. Then I went onto other languages as the Collection grew and...
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Oh I see!!...a generic term for the entire lot.

[Emperor]

When we were young we called them figurice(little figures) or vojnicici(little soldiers)...

[Redmao]

As kids we called them "bonhommes de guerre" which means men of war.

[Peter]

We just called them "soldaatjes " (Little soldiers).

Männicans is Mannekes in Flemish!

[Mr. Andrea]

In Italy, they are generally called "soldatini" (little soldiers). Among my wargame-mates, we call them "pupazzi" (puppets).

[Egbert]

When I got the first Airfix figures as a child, I called them "Männlein" (little men).
In the future my parents only spoke of "Männeschen" ( don't know how to translate it) on this topic.

[Dad's Army]

I keep it simple: Figures > FIGZ

[Kekso]

I have always called them "smågubbar" which translates very well to "little men".

Same here, except we didn't used Swedish word for little men

EDIT: I just saw that I'm almost 1 year too late with the answer

[Brok_Santatusca]

"kleine Ritter" (small knights in german)

[T. Dürrschmidt]

In my childhood (80s) we called the plastic soldiers (in every scale) "Manntschgerl" (singular) or "Manntschgerler" (plural)...

This is northern Bavarian dialect for "little men"....you could use the same term for a small grown man...

Some boys in my village had old Hausser Elastolin figures from their grandpa. We played with them in the sand pit…...and destroyed them sometimes….nowadays you would get much money for those figs….