I think the single noise marine mini is the closest thing to “lore accurate” EC from GW. I have a feeling the return of the phoenix lords is gonna have something to do with Fulgrim coming back

Friday nights, when I was first getting into magic about a decade ago. I don’t play magic anymore but still watch an awful lot of LRR content

Subassembly where you can, if you can’t, a good way I’ve found is painting them off the base, pinning them to a cork works best. If the feet are too small to pin, use a tiny bit of superglue to glue the foot to a piece of sprue and pin that. Then you’ll have much more access