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Building/Painting Marines. Leave bolters off?

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Just got back into 40k after over a decade away from TT(fluff is still my home!), and have now got some Blood Angels on the go again. Being quite a bit younger last time round, I never really painted that much beyond a spray of Blood Angel Red and then painting the bolters and others quickly.

Now though, I really want to put a lot of effort into painting them. Hell, I've half started again just to paint. With the marines though, it seems like it's going to be a lot of effort and quite tricky to paint the chest plates, if the bolters are already glued on as well. Does anyone else leave the bolters off to paint the marines first? If so, do you then paint the bolters before gluing them on or after?

Cheers.
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Roganzar
I leave bolters of of marines when it covers the chestplate, as well. Usually I've built the arms and bolter together then paint the pieces at the same time. Then I glue the arm assembly on after both are painted.

And just like Nord said, I know those parts are unpainted and can see the missed areas on any miniature I look at.
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