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Anyone have a tutorial on building them with plasticard etc? I need a whole bunch and bits add up in price...

Have you tried posting in the dakka swap shop? If you got stuff to trade then the cost might just be from postage.

Far too hard to hand-make and still have them look good, unless they're for orks of course...

I've never done so, but I can imagine a method that I'll try to describe with words:

1. Cut a thin piece of plasticard with the shape of the blade, I estimate that 0.5mm plasticard should do. Then 2 pieces roughly 1mm smaller on each side and what will be the "top" of the sword. Make a sandwich of it using superglue.

2. Almost all needle files set has a pyramidal shaped file, you'll have to use it to carve the small blades.

3. More plasticard (either thicker, or several laters of the one you're using) on the base to make the engine's box.

4. Then green stuff to make the engine's exhaust. Make a small tear shape and press it against the blade, planify the other side. Use a needle or cloth pin with soem vaseline on it to make the likes on the exhaust.

5. Details, the ones you like, the way you are. I'll add in this step, for example, the rivet on the top of the blade, using the heads of 2 cloth pints on each side.

It's extenuating to do, and not sure if worth the time, but I cannot device a better way right now.

Nope that's exactly what I needed thank you. I'm doing a sort of curved chain blade, there aren't any bits like it apart from a chain axe head, and that's too short.

It's a power sword with two curved chain blades on either side of the flat coming up from the hilt to about halfway. Modelling eviscerators gets boring after a while