Exemplary numbers come sold each when kits for the enthusiast to construct & paint & when pre-built, pre-painted collectible figurines. Exemplary kits can be mass produced within plastic (usually polystyrene), resin, or metal (including white metal); collectables are ordinarily manufactured of polymer, porcelain, or (seldom) bronze.

Enthusiasts might pursue figure modeling within its have perfect or even as an adjunct to military modeling.

There exists likewise overlap by owning miniature figures (minis) used within wargames and role-playing games: minis are normally to a lesser degree 54mm scale, and don't necessarily represent any given personage. Model numbers commonly 54mm/1:35 or even greater.

withwithin a Sixties, the currently-defunct house Aurora produced for even the popular market inexpensive polymer system of flick monsters, comic book heroes, & moving-picture show & television characters in 1:8 size (astir Ix inches or Twenty-three cm in height). Such the market disappeared & there is no business firm presently produces anything to match Aurora's quantity of several hundreds to thousands from either every mould. Business firm that make "garage kits" potty exclusively make astir 200 rosin system from either the mould, hence come lot extra expensive. Instead, a little (3¾-inch or even X cm) action figures of keep around condemned a popular market, & possibly occasionally of the big size (Dozen-inch or even Xxx cm) have been produced for recent motion-picture show characters (Princess Leia from either Star Wars, for example). Big disposables military numbers come manufactured by occasionally exemplary soldier house as a sideline.

A Japanese independently developed series of pre-assembled, pre-painted numbers for their anime characters in medium sizes. These at length reached the world market.

Model aircraft and vehicle kits in potentially little scales might too typically include "model figures," or even may be purchased when accessories. There are besides kits of a drivers & servicers of cars, & the series of statuette that fill in wall street & platforms of exemplary railroads.