I finished my sword and have painted it. The handle turned out really well and is by far my favourite part. The blade part had some holes and divots that I tried to fill but the glue ended up dripping out and didn’t work as well as I had hoped. I decided to wrap the handle in leather but the leather we had was a weird yellow colour and I wanted either dark brown or black. I tried a couple ways to dye it but they ended up not working or the dye rubbed off on my hands. I thought that I could just paint it but the I ended up colouring it with sharpie and it worked pretty well.