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Short of purchasing a lathe can anyone recommend a method of scratchbuilding an eldar pulsar? I'm honestly thinking of purchasing a curvy pen and adding some green stuff, but I figured I would post here in case someone with more experience had a better idea.

And just to clarify this is the strength D level gun, and it would be going on a vampire raider. It doesn't have to be an exact match, just a decent facsimile.

I personally use big brushes for mine. Cut the small tip off the top (build a pulsar muzzle) and the metal end of the brush that holds the bristles.

I used something like these for mine:
http://www.jerrysartarama.com/discount-art-supplies/beginning-intro-to-art/first-impressions-kids-art-supplies/elementary-brushes-and-painting-pots.htm

Brilliant! Thank you. I didn't even think about brushes.

Problem with brushes is they are rather narrow.Your pulsar will look anemic. Get some over sized dowel rod and hand carve it down to a rough shape,finish your pulsar by sanding it with a rotor tool then surface sand it with 220,then 600 grit.Once this is done cover it with a coat of medium super glue.Wait two hours sand the barrel with 600grit sandpaper,coat it again with the superglue and repeat the sanding procedure.The glue and sanding procedures sealed the wood grain.Now prime and paint and your good to go.

Interesting. How do you keep the coat of superglue uniform during application? I can only imagine that could get messy fast.

I have done them three different ways so far.

My initial pulsar was actually made quite easily using a couple of 1/12 scale porch posts. They had a couple of square blocks that needed to be cut off the top and bottom and then a bit of detailing but they were nearly perfect in length and diameter. I think I found them at a flea market.

Next I happened upon some fancy looking pens at a discount store. Again, the shape was nearly perfect, but they didn't narrow quite as much as the FW ones. In order to deal with this, I used some styrene tubing and putty to give the proper narrow/wide contours.

Most recently I turned one on a bench top lathe out of a block of solid acrylic (pen blanks). After the shape was turned on the lathe, I used a Dremel to carve details in and putty to build up some other details.