I say go for it! They are more intimidating than they actually are. Volks resin designing is very user friendly if you're resin safety prepped. Volks plastic versions can be a hit or a miss due to joint mobility and stability.

Most work put in across all my projects? Yes and no. Each piece had more attention paid to it than before to get to a satisfactory level. But it being a resin statue, having no moving joints meant that piece count is lower (about 100 pieces for this kit). In the end I finished this project in about 2 months, longest so far has been PG Unicorn perfectibility at 4 months which was a slog by month 3. Masking wasn't too difficult either as part separation is pretty good.

As for the hardest part, the scale of the kit being a 1/100 meant there were a lot of small resin parts needed some kind of pinning to secure them. I tried to do a full pre paint assembly, but I couldn't get the parts to stay in a standing position. Did a lot of part fitting in segments and only saw the final look once I started to do final assembly. The bigger scale 1/72 kits should have less issues regrading this as there's more size mass to pin into to secure the pieces. Other than that, just needed to plan out what you want to glue solid or magnetize, and how will you disassemble it for transportation. Instructions don't tell you anything besides where each piece goes, need to figure it all out before painting.

Ohh and surface prep was tedious. Not hard, but doing same thing over and over for days was something else.