Got a new job so I should be able to finish it soon. Just need to mount the T-Bolt. Thinking about getting some kind of metal ring to wrap the clamp around so it's not just a dorky clamp hanging off the back (more like the wrist clamp attachment in AOD:
http://www.bookofthedead.ws/evildeadchainsaws/website/images/lg_photos_medieval_6.jpg).
Also trying to get in contact with Venkman about that cursed grill piece so I can slap it on the saw and paint the whole thing to give it a dirty 'used' look (an idea I have for the saw to give it an offsetting macabre look is to paint up the chainsaw bar and chain with blood and flesh chunks and hang some strands of hair that might have got stuck in the chain after Ash sawed into Linda's dismembered reanimated head).
As far as my plans for putting the saw to use, I've decided to be a zombie/deadite version of Ash for Halloween if I can afford the things I need to garner for such.
The needed items are of course his shirt and pants and belt and watch... Then it's on to the boots, which I have a choice between...
Either the ones from Evil Dead II:
http://www.rei.com/skuimage/629096
Or the ones from Army of Darkness:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Sz0X_-X64Xk/TjV-EuxdvMI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/9JUGfBE74N4/s1600/vasque%2Bboots.jpg
My fiancee is going to be making the shotgun harness soon, just need to buy the materials, which I can pick up from Hobby Lobby (rivets and such) and a thrift store (canvas and leather belts) and luckily Zendragon here on the RPF has a few tips about piecing it together screen accurately:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v63/Zendragon/Ash/AshProg05.jpg
http://www.therpf.com/f24/ash-project-army-darkness-photos-7-11-a-4111/
Then I need to get my hands on a double barrel shotgun replica... I found a really nice one at a replica gun collector website but it's a coach gun and more western (has external hammers unlike Ash's) but for now it'll do, especially since I'm going to be a zombie Ash and I don't think I will be pulling it out of the harness scabbard very often due to this:
Stagecoach Replica Shotgun
But I'd really like to get my hands on this shotgun, however I don't know really how to go about it, I think they rent them out or will charge the hell out of you if you inquire about purchasing the prop (even though this is exactly what Ash's boomstick looked like):
Replica Savage Stevens 311 | The Specialists LTD | The Specialists, LTD.
As far as anything else, I'm going to get a zombie face prosthetic from cfx and douse myself in blood and random wounds.
It's gonna rock.