Playmobil 75mm: redoing customs or using new stickers. Edited 30th May 2026

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Just a series of pics of what I am doing nowadays.

I am a collector of “classic” (by now NEW TOY SOLDIERS) 54mm gloss finish Toy Soldiers, also a wargamer in 6mm scale… but I do skirmish with 75mm Playmobils -because messing with the parts is huge FUN!-

So, here are some pics

Enjoy!

Working on Units lossely based on the period of the American War of Independence (AWI)… I am not serious at all trying to be 100% accurate with the uniforms etc (that applies to all pics) The drummer has been modified and the plume of the officer tricorne is now red… see pic much below…
Much better version I guess…
Will keep that way finally!
A page of stickers to apply on the torso of a figure… super detailed.
An example of a couple of figures once “customized” (Rabble in Arms as in Oliver Curwood novel)
This pic is from an Exhibition on the Museo del Ejército in Valencia (Spain)… very cute and elaborated customizacions (far more convoluted and precise than mine)
But the officer… the rest are literally “OUT OF THE BAG” from Playmobil.
Existing units (old customs) going to be ” updated ” in
the future
Same as above (Note how a tricorne or a sticker easy transforms your basic figure)
See what I mean?
One on the back row is now the first pic on this Post (Coldstream Guards late 1700’s)
The “Tricorne Period” together with the ACW are the easiest periods to collect I guess.
Those I have already shown before in other Posts… but shows the level of FUN!
Before and after applying a sticker.
See?
Spaniards messing in the AWI (even if erased from Historical Memory!)
A nice Cavalry Unit (IMHO)
New unit… Spanish but able to be Austrian with a change of drum… or French for that matter!
Another one… (Old but new stickers)
How they are “made” or “converted”… usually called “customs” or “customized”.
Working station and parade make adjustments and permutations very easy.
New Cavalry Troopers
Officer detail
Bugler detail
Redone bugler with black coat
Detail
Those are going to be mixed/redone/permuted… easy does it!
Dress rehearsal I
Probably next Hussars! (Rehearsal too)
The one on the left won!… that would be the next Unit… the middle one has potential but quite tricky if you ask me.
There you have it the Unit with white facings is done!
The arms/hands are better like this I guess…
Some work done with the drums…
Jagers in the making…
So far so good…
The Jägers…
The Bavarians…
Some generic Artillerymen…
Working on the Commanders of all Nations (Real or Not)…
And som patriots militia… maybe Oliver Curwood would have been proud of them!
Last but not least a British Unit much more “Barry Lyndon” times if you ask me… (splendid stickers & hairdryer)

Author: Alejo Dorca

Born in 1952. Married in 1976. Two sons and a daughter. 4 grandsons to date, 3 boys and a girl. Arquitect in 1978. Retired in 2016 aprox. Lifelong Toy Soldiers aficionado.