Dad helped me made the sword base using wood . Then we spray it silver , and I proceed to make the sword cover.Heh heh..... the cover was entirely made up of cardboard and paper mache ^_^ Paper mache is a real 'powerful' method to apply on when ya making hard solid accessories.As for the 'U' shaped potion on the sword, I made it out of styloform (a kind which was different from the normal ones, Ii forgot the name -_-u ) and used gold paper to wrap it up .The decorations at the end of the sword was very challenging too . I used a wooden ball for the deco, and used read strings to wrap around another to create the 'whirling' effect.