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Zweihander. by ~Zeppi-il-Hafi:iconZeppi-il-Hafi:

Categories Digital Art > 3-Dimensional Art > Objects > Weapons

©2009 ~Zeppi-il-Hafi
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The Zweihänder was mostly used by elite German Landsknechts. Most of them used long pikes but a select few on the front line were issued with this sword.

Back doing my own stuff after a long boring project.

Finished this beast... textures suck as usual, I need to find some good texturing tuts, thats another thing to do this summer.

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=painting-with-light Jun 21, 2009, 1:15:59 AM
I would hate to be on the wrong end of such a sword :D
Good job

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~ShengDaFlashPRo Jun 21, 2009, 1:32:14 AM
hmm nice :D but it looks blunt for some reason O_O

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~Zeppi-il-Hafi Jun 21, 2009, 2:35:51 AM
The Zweihänder was mostly used by elite German Landsknechts. Most of them used long pikes but a select few on the front line were issued with this sword.
So the blade is meant to take down cavalry must have a strong edge rather than a really sharp one.

Usually the blade profile is of a convex shape rather than a concave one, kind of like the edge on an axe head which is meant to take a lot of beating and still retain sharpness.
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~senor-freebie Jun 21, 2009, 4:04:11 PM
Very awesome! Have you seen the ones with the pattern based blades?

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~ShengDaFlashPRo Jun 21, 2009, 8:45:32 PM
oooh. all technical :D I would've thought that that sword was made up xD ty for info :) once again, nice job

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~Zeppi-il-Hafi Jun 22, 2009, 1:33:52 AM
Thanks.

You mean damascus steel blades?? The Europeans never had the knowledge to forge damascus steel as far as I know.
If you mean pattern welded steel I don't care much about that... its purely cosmetic.
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~Zeppi-il-Hafi Jun 22, 2009, 1:36:21 AM
The details on my sword are a mix of real zweihander parts and my own design but the overall shape and dimensions are historical.
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~ShengDaFlashPRo Jun 22, 2009, 2:10:02 AM
ah i c..

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