An except of the just released Fallout 3 Team Diary along with some new concept art.
Adam Adamowicz, a concept artist for Fallout 3 went on to say, "Homemade Weapons
I wanted these to look like they'd actually work. Emil gave me a list of ingredients for each particular homemade weapon. It was my job to stick em' together and make the whole thing look deadly. The parts themselves were innocuous enough. Old toys, mason jars, a crutch, refrigerator parts? Tricky. For each one I was purely and truly stumped. I made piles of drawings that never looked menacing enough, or even mechanically sound. Each failed design had me yelling "This would never work!" "