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Toughest Girls in the Galaxy

Starting out with some Raging Heroes postapocalyptic figures. I like these, even if they are a little on the fiddly side. That said, fiddliness brings flexibility. The heads, legs, and torsoes are interchangable. The arms (human arms and weapons) are tied to a specific torso. That's the bit that's fiddly - separate parts that only go together one way. On the plus side, it only takes mild conversion skill to change them out in ways not intended.
And they look great - movie/pulp savage, but not gory.

I am going to do boxing paint. Using a few core colours, but mixing them to make individual shades for each figure. This gives a nice balance of uniformity and uniqueness.
I think that is important for postapocs (or many other irregular forces). They shouldn't be too uniform, but they shouldn't appear to have thousands of shopping options or millions of resources to make things too specialized.

I am dividing the ten into five with khakis and five with blue jeans. Each set of pants has slightly differnt coulours. This is based on my military experience in the US Navy, where there is no such thing as two pieces of a khaki uniform that are exactly the same colour.
I also hit the flesh with an undertone of a darker colour, then dry brush on the top skin tone. No two people have the same skin tone. No one person has only one skin tone. Boxing the paint works well for this too.
Last bit - pure white for the mohawks. I will pick unnatural colours for them once they are assembled. Gotta have a little unrealistic fun.

So here's the outcome. Consistency, but not uniformity.
The unique mohawks also help out with the meta-game elements. No, you haven't moved the pink mohawk, just the green.

Rinse and repeat for the bikers. Each bike gets a unique paint job, but the engines, struts, wheels, etc. all get the boxed paint treatment.
Side note - the two identical white mohawks are the same figure in "mounted" and "dismounted" versions.