"Battlefront SS Figure Question and mixing metal/plastic" Topic

As I mentioned elsewhere, I'm coming into this from Napoleonic, where I'm used to exclusively painting metal figures.

I've picked up a few boxes of plastic german tanks and figures and am quite impressed. I've got a line on a box of the old SS Panzergrenadier figures in metal. So two questions:

1) Are the SS Panzergrenadier and non-SS figures different? Wouldn't it be the camo that is mostly different?

2) Any issues with mixing metal/resin and plastic tanks & figures within my army? I wouldn't mix figures platoons, but I think I like the resin Panthers for sure.

I've never painted plastic before, and it isn't nearly as bad as I would have thought.

Yes at 15mm the camo is the main way to tell whether they are SS or Heer.

On the mixing question, no problems at all. WW2 figures, even within a unit or a base, are much more varied than in Napoleonics. I am sure a real Napoleonic regiment in battle would not have consisted of identical men in identical poses, but generally that is the effect that people look for. For WW2 I would happily mix figures in any way imaginable, including metal and plastic on the same base. The issue is more likely to be between manufacturers, and their different interpretations of scale.

Vehicles are slightly more tricky, as they are all supposed to be the same, but again the main problem is between makes – two firms can produce models of the identical tank which are distinctly different in size. But plastic vehicles tend to look a little bit "cleaner" – the flat surfaces are geometrically perfect, which they aren't in resin or metal. That may be the one place where metal and plastic don't go together perfectly.

I've got a mix of metal and resin,as well as plastic for my vehicles and figures. Any of them have an equal chance on the table.