Hull, United Kingdom

Post 17: Excalibur & Knight Swords Creation

Using Two main references one of a longsword (Classification of swords, 2020) and another of an Excalibur type sword (2020) I set about trying to create 4 swords 3 normal regular swords with different hilts and one special looking sword that would be Excalibur.

I first blocked out the hilt and then started to make a quick blade with a fuller but when that proved to quite hard to look right and be decent topology I decided to scrap that idea and have it flat since a fullers purpose is to reduce weight not help the blade.

After my failed attempt at a fuller I created a quick flat blade which I could then make a hilt for and connect into.

The first sword I created was Excalibur and using the reference (2020) I started making the unique crossguards cut in half here so I can vertex snap it flat before.

Creating the rest of the hilt was as easy as making a few cylinders and shaping them accordingly and as for the blade I tweaked its length and width and I tweaked it again later.

Each swords creation was the same with just a bit of tweaking here and there it was the same for the textures however Excalibur had an extra texture which was gold.