Chinese Straight Sword (Jian)

[DIE 75]

I felt I needed to at least feel as if I'm contributing to this mod instead of just being a quasi-cheerleader so I thought I would attempt to give some ideas.

I haven't seen any mods for blades such as these so I figured it might be cool for the Akavir Project. I've always wondered why I haven't seen any Chinese straight sword (jian) mods considering the popularity of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon not all that long ago and the perceived ease of modeling (perceived because I'm no modeler and really don't know how difficult it might be).

Here are a couple examples I?ve found:

http://www.wutangcenter.com/wt/CTsword.htm

http://therionarms.com/reenact/therionarms_c531.html

Hope this helps... :goodjob:

[Kodama]

I think we have a jian already.

But it can't hurt to have more... i have seen some mod wips with jian, but i don't know if they were ever released hrug:
But thanks for trying to help us, sometimes people come up with really good stuff :goodjob:

[Corthian]

Thanks, for the links, I can use that stuff. I am thankful for any type concept art.

[Intranetusa]

Here are some examples of Chinese jians/daos:

http://thomaschen.freewebspace.com/custom.html

http://thomaschen.freewebspace.com/custom4.html

http://www.chinahistoryforum.com/index.p...opic=17423


btw, do you need more pics on Japanese/Indian/Indonesian/etc swords?

[Kodama]

We should have a long two-handed version of the jian (shuangshou jian), that would be cool

[Intranetusa]

that reminds of the bastard sword from Braveheart :p

[Kodama]

Originally posted by Intranetusa
that reminds of the bastard sword from Braveheart :p

That would be a "claymore", although it did not look very authentic

[Intranetusa]

You're right, the historical Wallace sword is a 2 handed claymore - but in the Braveheart movie, Mel Gibson can be seen weilding it with one hand at times.

So the model it probably wasn't long enough or heavy enough to be an authentic Scottish claymore.

[Kodama]

Indeed, it's an abomination
It's suppost to be a claymore, but the size comes closer to a bastard sword, although the bastard swords i have seen looked very different.

[Intranetusa]

It was interesting that in the movie, the English wore metal lamellar and at the Battle of Stirling Bridge there was no bridge...I guess historical considerations was last on their minds.