Thanks for the comments, guys.
If you want to see units together, Etrigan001, have a look at
http://www.warhammer-empire.com/theforum/index.php?topic=17260.0, where I put much of my old empire army together.
I know what you mean, Pistol Pete, and years ago I did indeed paint exactly as you describe. But what happened is that over the years I kept stopping at an earlier and earlier stage in painting, because I liked the figure at that stage. I liked the clean simplicity (cartoon like) and the fact that on the table in units the figures could be made out even en masse, rather than a general smear of colour. As you yourself said, I decided it looked great as a wargames army.
Like some of the Empire guys know, I'm afraid I don't even use acrylics, but enamels - if foundation paints do the same job, I might switch, but normal GW paints don't function well for my method. It is a very time consuming effort, btw, even if 'simple', as there's no dry brushing or washing - enamals dry brush very well but cannot wash well, due to being thinned with white spirit, and inks won't work at all on them. (e.g.) every white patch on the sleeve has to be dotted on individually. Faces often come out randomly odd (I'm not a good drawer), but again I quite like the quirkiness they have.
As for colours, I done armies where no two figures have the same colours (see
http://www.warhammer-empire.com/theforum/index.php?topic=17225.0), so my Empire army is a deliberate attempt at uniformity and a world of blue and white. I ummed and aahed for 5 minutes before I put that red sash on the officer. But why wear a blue and white sash to mark yourself out in a blue and white army?
I will put the full 30 man regiment up as a pic once I have based.
