Research

During my skim of Swords and Swordsmen by Mike Loads in 2010 as well as Records of the Medieval Sword by Ewart Oakeshott in 1991 I found a diagram of a 15th century arming sword and records of an arming sword. This diagram and records support my modern source on the length and style of the blade. Further reading of Swords and Swordsmen unveiled the material that swords were typically made of called meteoric iron that was a a ferrous alloy containing nickel, this alloy was known to make a steel of exceptional hardness as is EN 45 which I discovered through research of steel suppliers is a silicon manganese spring steel which is commonly used by companies making battle ready swords replicas.

I also sent out a google form to the members of my D&D group to assess interest and how they would like it presented.

Modelling

Today I also started modelling my sword beginning with the hilt. I made the pommel out of a torus and a sphere. Then for the grip I used a cube and added a subdivision surface to it to make it more round then extruded and scaled the parts till it looked like the grip in the image behind the model. Next I created the guard that I again used a cube with subdivision surfaces. I then added a mirror on the X axis to ensure the sword was symmetrical designed a simple guard by extruding, scaling and moving the faces, edges and vertices till I was happy. Then I bevelled the centre of the guard and used the bridge tool to make a hole for the tang to slide through to get the grip.