I like the old figures as you can still do some bloody marvelous art with them, for native American and African etc  80% figures in scene i will use p4 male female and the p4 male and female variants. The other 20% will be made up from later characters, but you have to use older characters especially in vue as the way the programed the memory bloody atrocious. As you can see from picture i did for a nightmare scene i have used p4 dork and 2 p4 males with M3 textures, cleaned up figures in art program but i love what ya can do with old figures.