Chinese Straight Sword (Jian) - DIE 75 - 06-08-2007
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 - 06-08-2007
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 - 06-08-2007
Thanks, for the links, I can use that stuff. I am thankful for any type concept art.
- Intranetusa - 06-09-2007
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.php?showtopic=17423
btw, do you need more pics on Japanese/Indian/Indonesian/etc swords?
- Kodama - 06-10-2007
We should have a long two-handed version of the jian (shuangshou jian), that would be cool
- Intranetusa - 06-10-2007
that reminds of the bastard sword from Braveheart :p
- Kodama - 06-10-2007
Quote: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 - 06-13-2007
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 - 06-13-2007
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 - 06-16-2007
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.
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