Their vehicles are usually manufactured in a smaller scale, to save on production and packaging costs. Army men are sometimes packaged with additional accessories including tanks (often based on the M48 Patton tank), jeeps, armed hovercraft, half-tracks, artillery, flags, army trucks, helicopters, fighter jets, landing craft and fortifications. Typical accoutrements depicted are often 1960s-era M1911 style pistols, ammunition pouches, and water canteens. The traditional helmets are the older M1 "steel pot" style that were issued to US soldiers during the middle to late 20th century. They may also have radio men, binocular scouts, and minesweepers. These include rifles, machine guns, submachine guns, sniper rifles, pistols, grenades, flamethrowers, mortars, and bazookas. They are equipped with a variety of weapons, typically from World War II to the current era, often depicting the 1964 Vietnam-era M-16 rifle with fixed M7 bayonet. Plastic army men are sold in plastic bags or buckets, and often include different colors such as green, tan, or gray, to represent opposing sides. 'Jumbo' army men are a less common secondary scale with 4.75-inch (12.1 cm) soldiers made with the same process.
Army men are traditionally green and almost always dressed in modern military uniforms and armed with 20th-century weapons. Unlike the more expensive toy soldiers available in hobby shops, army men are sold at low prices in discount stores and supermarkets in bulk packaging. Army men, or plastic soldiers, are toy soldiers that are about 5 cm (2.0 in) tall and most commonly molded from olive green plastic.
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