My thanks to everyone for all the comments, it`s funny that the work on the figures was brought up because my way of painting the little pain in the butts is as simple as your gonna get!
1.- one coat of flesh on face and hands.
2.- one coat of whatever colour the uniform happens to be.
3.- one wash of a warm brown for the faces and hands.
4.- one black wash over the rest of the fig.
5.- drybrush lightly with a dust colour.
....and that`s it! I don`t like to do figures, feels like I`m being bogged down but they are necessary for the diorama so I struggle through them.
"Battleing Bastards of Bastogne"