Time Traveller's Custom thread

[Time Traveller]

Hey all. Last time I was home, I finally got a complete pretender Bludgeon. The first thing I had to deal with was the fact that he has no sword, just a gun. Totally un-comic-like. So I dug through my bags of junk parts from primus-knows-what toys to look for a suitable donor. I found the remnants of a DBZ card game sword meter (like the black one here)
, without its sheath. it is covered from one end of the blade to the other in numbers, and the sheath has a viewing hole to show which you're at. So, after a little sanding, i had a numberless sword that still didn't fit in his hand. I razored the end of the hilt off, sanded that down, but who's ever heard of a straight katana? Not I. a little boiling water did the trick, and i managed to put a nice curve in it:

and here is Bludgeon wielding his distinctly-not-bludgeoning weapon:



I have one question for you all, however. I am debating either painting the blade metallic silver, but it would definitely not look stock to the toy. The other option is to paint the whole sword the same off-white that his (and all small pretenders) guns are cast in:

which do you think i should do?

[Rumble]

TT, the sword is looking good. As far as paint goes I would be inclined to go with the off-white, or failing that maybe try and match the grey colour on his shell?

Rumble.