@Macruran: more or less.
My harddrive ist full of pictures from this period of time, Most of the figures here are somewhat loosely based on real units, either they have the same colour scheme or they have the same style of headgear etc.
Using only original parts (and those from Schenk) I often can only get near a real uniform but most often the figures get the real vibe which should be enough for a toy.