bicycle clips...

Theses are in the shops currently and sold as paper clips-

I get mine at Tiger and Waterstons.

I combined them with some WW2 Airfix 1/32 Montain Troops ( with added rucksacks) to make some Austro-Hungarian (Army White) bicycle troops circa 1900 or so-

No doubt the original 1 to 1 scale ones would have been black but I have retained the colour of the clips for the sake of whimsy...