Well Vincent, this was the best that I could do with Wings so far on your 
Rapier Hilt project. Hope you like it.

     (If you/anyone wants to play with the model at all, let me know and 
I'll have it ready for download sometime soon. You can do what you want with 
it, it's free.)     :)


   ~Steve~

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St. wrote:
>    Well Vincent, this was the best that I could do with Wings so far on your 
> Rapier Hilt project. Hope you like it.
> 
>      (If you/anyone wants to play with the model at all, let me know and 
> I'll have it ready for download sometime soon. You can do what you want with 
> it, it's free.)     :)
> 
> 
>    ~Steve~

How wide is that crossbar?  Assuming that the grip is 5" (wide enough to 
comfortably fit a hand), then it looks like it would be 20-23" across!

...Chambers

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St. wrote:
>    Well Vincent, this was the best that I could do with Wings so far on your 
> Rapier Hilt project. Hope you like it.
> 
Nice job!

So I'm wondering, is this a right or left handed sword, or does it matter?

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On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:37:23 -0000, "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:

>
>   Well Vincent, this was the best that I could do with Wings so far on your 
>Rapier Hilt project. Hope you like it.
>
>     (If you/anyone wants to play with the model at all, let me know and 
>I'll have it ready for download sometime soon. You can do what you want with 
>it, it's free.)     :)
>

Almost(?) there! 

I think that it is very good, I'd be happy with it.

Regards
	Stephen

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"Ben Chambers" <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote in message 
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> How wide is that crossbar?  Assuming that the grip is 5" (wide enough to 
> comfortably fit a hand), then it looks like it would be 20-23" across!

      Hey Ben, that's the shortened version! ;)   It *was* longer!  :o)

        Take care mate, and have a HNY.

          ~Steve~



> ...Chambers

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"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht 
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> St. wrote:
>>    Well Vincent, this was the best that I could do with Wings so far on 
>> your Rapier Hilt project. Hope you like it.
>>
> Nice job!

I second that !

>
> So I'm wondering, is this a right or left handed sword, or does it matter?

...my impression is that it is right handed... Seems wrong in a left hand... 
but I may be wrong.

Thomas

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>    Well Vincent, this was the best that I could do with Wings so far on your 
> Rapier Hilt project. Hope you like it.
> 
>      (If you/anyone wants to play with the model at all, let me know and 
> I'll have it ready for download sometime soon. You can do what you want with 
> it, it's free.)     :)
> 
> 

Wow. That's the best rapier hilt model I've seen this far, in fact :-D

Actually, I've seen photographs of modern rapier reproductions that were 
possibly less accurate than your 3D model ;-)

If you were to work on it again, maybe you could make the branches join 
with a bit more acute angles. Maybe also the handle could be longer... 
But since you worked merely from 4 photos, the result really is awesome 
already!

I'd happily play with that model, if only just to make myself a 
wallpaper :-)

Additionnaly, this answers a question I've been asking myself: Yes, I 
*must* learn how to use Wings...

OOC, what time did you spend on the modelling?

Happy New Year!

-- 
Vincent

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> "Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht 
> news:4598096c$1@news.povray.org...
>> St. wrote:
>> So I'm wondering, is this a right or left handed sword, or does it matter?
> 
> ...my impression is that it is right handed... Seems wrong in a left hand... 
> but I may be wrong.
> 

No it's indeed a left-handed rapier. Well, that's the convention 
actually, you could certainly hold it in your right hand as well...

Regards

-- 
Vincent

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"Vincent Le Chevalier" <gal### [at] libertyALLsurfSPAMfr> wrote in 
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>>    Well Vincent, this was the best that I could do with Wings so far on 
>> your Rapier Hilt project. Hope you like it.
>>
>>      (If you/anyone wants to play with the model at all, let me know and 
>> I'll have it ready for download sometime soon. You can do what you want 
>> with it, it's free.)     :)
>>
>>
>
> Wow. That's the best rapier hilt model I've seen this far, in fact :-D

     Heh, thanks!

>
> Actually, I've seen photographs of modern rapier reproductions that were 
> possibly less accurate than your 3D model ;-)
>
> If you were to work on it again, maybe you could make the branches join 
> with a bit more acute angles. Maybe also the handle could be longer... But 
> since you worked merely from 4 photos, the result really is awesome 
> already!
>
> I'd happily play with that model, if only just to make myself a wallpaper 
> :-)

     This is a 'smoothed once' .obj model, (110kb zip) so you can still 
adjust it to what you want. It's only the hilt and finial part, so you can 
do the handle and blade as you want too:

     http://website.lineone.net/~25ct/rapier_hilt.zip

     I'll leave it up for ages if anyone else wants it.


>
> Additionnaly, this answers a question I've been asking myself: Yes, I 
> *must* learn how to use Wings...

      Yes, give it a go, the learning curve is fairly easy. I think I've 
been using it for about two years now, and I don't think I'll give it up. 
:o)

>
> OOC, what time did you spend on the modelling?

    Approximately 6 hours over two days for the modeling, and about 20 
minutes setting the scene up.


>
> Happy New Year!

    And to you too. I'm glad that you like the hilt.  :o)

      ~Steve~


>
> -- 
> Vincent

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"Stephen" <mcavoysATaolDOTcom@> wrote in message 
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> On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:37:23 -0000, "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>
>>
>>   Well Vincent, this was the best that I could do with Wings so far on 
>> your
>>Rapier Hilt project. Hope you like it.
>>
>>     (If you/anyone wants to play with the model at all, let me know and
>>I'll have it ready for download sometime soon. You can do what you want 
>>with
>>it, it's free.)     :)
>>
>
> Almost(?) there!

    Well, I did spot a mistake on that spiky bit by the join to the right 
where it's scaled 'fatter' than the bit before it. I think I left some verts 
selected when scaling something else. Anyway, it's now corrected in the .obj 
model posted in my reply to Vincent.  :o)


>
> I think that it is very good, I'd be happy with it.

    Thank you Stephen. I'll mail you soon...

       ~Steve~


>
> Regards
> Stephen

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