Weapons-- What take is this?

First post since the new update and all i'm full up with are questions! I'll try to make them in italics in case you're just skimming by, but i praise any and all feedback right now. Of course the guns aren't done, and I've hardly looked at the staff head, but we're getting there!

Where were we at? Oh yeah... sanding and cutting. Well, mom cut out the triggers and the "wheels" with her handy dandy saw thing. Unfortunately, our saw is not specialized enough to do these kind of cuts, because well-- it split the wood.

Wonderful boyfriend and mom found a way to make it work though. They cut off a new hunk of wood from a scrap somewhere, made it into a bunch of spokes, and then added in the middle pieces and sanded them to fit.

The rough idea is here. They were of course, gorilla glued in and then continually sanded to perfection. Sanding is somehow becoming my middle name. After plenty of sanding, it was time for paint!

In the tutorial (that i was kind of following), she pained them pure black, but if you look at gamer pictures or the controllers modeled after them, the guns are in fact Grey. They got painted a gun metal grey.

Of course some of the details aren't on mine yet, but save this reference picture for later because you will return for it whilst judging other pieces of the guns.

I coerced my friends into helping me paint too. Sam is painting the "forks" a shiny gold color, and that's where the first question arises.

The color that I picked for the gold was a metallic gold, the same brand i got for the color of the guns. However, I think it turned out slightly sparkly. Is the gold color picked out too sparkly? I could possibly just be making it up.

This is after three coats on the base of the gun. There are still a couple more spots that need to be touched up, but overall, i think the gun portion turned out well.

We painted the grips black, and after a lot of drying, i put them on my table to take a picture for you all. Generously, my cat Eddy agreed to help by laying on all the pieces. This was after i convinced him that the forks were not for eating.

This is all the pieces sitting on top of each other. My last question is, in the picture that i told you to reference above, the gold part goes over the gun almost like a slip. There's a part on the top of the gun that is also painted gold. Should I make that part?

I guess that's it for now. I still have to glue them all together, figure out about the possible changes (which will all be helped with YOUR feedback), put in the decorative screws, and then do something about the details on the forks. I'll figure it out, as you can see, I have the best helpers in the world <3. Special thanks go out to Yuri, Mom, Dad, Sam, Matt, Niki, and Diana.

Happy Cosplay :D! and the layout isn't quite finished yet so give it a little while.