Sandbox Skirmish Low Stakes

This is a project that I have been tinkering with for a couple of years but which never seems to get shifted in a forward direction, for whatever reason that may be, one of which is my lack of bullet biting when it comes to painting 15mm figures. 

I haven't painted anything in 15mm for years, so I'm sitting on a fence when it comes to how to do it. In the past, I've painted in layers over a black undercoat, which works well but nowadays a lot of people seem to go for a block, wash and highlight approach, which works when you have a lot of figures to wade through but is perhaps lacking when you only have a dozen or so for skirmish games.

I desperately need some practice in advance of the Red Actions! project, so I'm going to have a go painting a squad or two of 15mm modern figures for the Sandbox Skirmish project, possibly not the British platoon I've undercoated in Citadel Death Guard green but instead some US or Israeli figures. 

This will allow me to get things wrong as well as right, with a low-stakes outcome but a useful result, if it goes according to plan.