The near finished product

So this is the nearly finished product. all that needs to be done are a few minor touch ups (paint the bondo, secure the copper pipe to the ball valve somehow...) 

The hand guard is a little massive and the blade is too skinny but hey, £30, a couple of days each week for a couple of months and no help from my pops, I'm proud-ish. next time round this is going to be all metal and twice as accurate (And twice as frustrating). I didnt go for attaching a bike petrol tank in the end, and that would have doubled the cost of the project.

You can see the unpainted bondo here.

Got the blade fitted by making a short tang and threading it into the pole used for the hilt, then securing it with 2 set screws.

this should have been finished ages ago but i'm lazy and school is time consuming. all that needs done is the hand guard, because the last 3 i made sucked but now i have a jig saw so 'sall good if i can keep my hand straight.

The only change to the hilt is the paintng of the raised grip piece which needs re-painted, and the addition of rust effects to the 'metal' pieces.

once again, sorry for the terrible pictures. my parents camera won't take photos without the flash for some reason, and with the flash the pics look even worse than those taken by my phone.

Here's the handle, nearly finished. i painted the plastic pieces with gloss black, then applied boltgun metal citadel paint with a piece of sandpaper, to give the pieces a rough, weathered texture. all that needs done is the hand guard, which will need to be cut out again, and the copper tubes will have to be re-cut to fit the extra width of the hand guard.

The raised piece of the grip was a peace of a mountain bike gear changer thingy,
covered with layers of isopon 38. It needs another coat of  primer and matt black paint.

I got the brake lever in the mail and cut out a new hand guard after looking at the in game model, which looks wider and more oval shaped than my one. i now need to use some polymer clay to make the lever look more like it's connected to a master brake cylinder, and use the same clay to create the raised section of the grip.

The master cylinder will be built around half of a harmonica box and
a PVC off-cut

i also need to use larger pieces of copper pipe to fit the new hand guard. the piece that resembles an exhaust pipe with holes around it will be shaped with a heat gun, to be much flatter, like it is in the in-game model.

my new davy crockett hat

What the lever looks like now

What it needs to look more like

Apologies in advance for my terrible camera/phone.
this is what i have so far for my shishkebab replica, from fallout 3.
I'm still waiting for the motorbike handle brake, but aside from that, it's nearly finished.

The round tsuba like piece is a piece of mdf with 16mm holes drilled around it. the piece that attaches to the tsuba is 1.5" ID pvc pipe, which i squeezed in a vice for a couple of days, to make sure it squished into an oval shape. I'm unsure whether the 4 parts covering the holes are flat headed screws that hold the blade in place, as the groove of the screw heads appear to curve downwards.

The copper pieces i used are 15mm in diameter will be weathered using bleach. The two valves are a 15mm gate valve and a 22mm ball valve. I got both on eBay  for about £7. The blade itself is a 1.3" steel bar, which needs much more weathering(Read: Beat it against the corner of the garage wall!). I may replace this with a wider blade at some other point, to fill out the oval shaped piece more, and rust it up. I'm using the piece found on mountain bikes, used to change gears as the grip, as it has the right shape. But i may alter it a bit with some polymer clay or epoxy putty.

 Thanks for listenin' chilldren!