Agreed Shagnasty. And there was evidently a set or two in "the Germanies" for training purposes, but I've never seen a picture of a survivor.
Truthfully, I'm trying to get a feel for "natural" or "traditional" size/scale, if I can. I get the feeling that toy soldiers for kids run from about 40mm (Britain's "B" Range, if I remember correctly) to about 60mm (Marx playsets) centering on 54mm.
For wargame figures, I gripe a lot about scale creep, but the truth is, a Stadden or Suren 30mm goes on the same table as a Perry or Warlord 28mm. (Old Scruby or Command Post look just a tad short.) And of course there were and are 30mm flats which predate any of them. It raises the question of whether the current 32mm stuff is another round of scale creep or an aberration. Surely at some point, figures become too big for purpose? Or can we look to GW and Tin Man escalating to 36mm in another ten years?
Below that 28mm-30mm cluster, I'm not at all sure. Arguably a cluster around 20mm, 1/72 and true 25mm? Someone was arguing on the WWII boards that these were close enough to use the same rules and terrain.
But the hobby would be so much simpler with 5-6 scales, and I can't see what we'd lose by it, if there were a way to get from here to there.
