>>10997114Depends how hard you want to work. Many people paint in subassemblies (for example, you could leave the arms off the torso to allow you to paint the stuff behind the gun/arms). I've never assembled or painted space marines so it's hard to make a recommendation for these, I play Admech, where it's practically mandatory for many units (the legs and inside of skitarii robes, for example). In your case, you'd probably want to glue together anything you can, but leave the arms off the body.
On the other hand, there's always the mindset that, if you can't see it to paint it, you often can't see it once it's painted.
When you ask if you can do a full base layer, what exactly do you mean? You'll definitely want to prime your models, likely with a spray can of you're getting started, and usually people prime with a color that will be used on a lot of their model if possible, especially for space marines. So for example, if you were painting ultramarines, You would either spray them with a blue primer, or prime them and then spray them with blue paint.
When you're putting down your basic colors, don't be afraid to paint outside the area you're aiming for, as long as you thin your paints enough you can always just go back with the color you painted over and fix it.
