Discussions: How you should paint.

This is the second installment of the disscussions series. This month we will be talking about painting.

Now, I firmly belive that however you want to paint is how you should paint but what we are talking about here is what painting tecnique you think gives the best result and why. You must be able to do theis method of painting so it is the thing you think gives the best results that you can do.

Anyway because it may depend on what your painting I am asking the above question for if you were painting:

Characters.
Basic squads that are not the centrepiecs of your army (the kind people often batch paint you know, the ones you want done quite quick).
Special squads (squads you want to draw peoples eyes to.