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Flail: While searching some historical documents found information about this weapon used in war. I have also seen this one in many movies (example: Gladiator). Flail has a glorious history of its welder. Here it goes for you.
The Military Flail or simply Flail is a weapon commonly attributed to the Middle-Ages but for which little historical evidence currently exists. In spite of this, it was a stock figure in Victorian Era Medievalist literature and thus has become entrenched in popular medieval fantasy and thus the neomedievalist imagination, particularly as a result of the influence of the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game on popular medieval fantasy.
Typically, the weapon is depicted as one (or more) weights attached to a handle with a hinge or chain. Modern authors have multiple conflicting names for this weapon; the terms “morning star” (a stick with a spiked tip), and even “mace” (a bludgeoning weapon similar to a morning star) are used interchangeably with “flail”, because of historical fallacies.
Historical evidence for the use of a long-handled flail as a weapon of war does exist from Germany and Central Europe in the later Middle Ages.
This is the page for the image of the actual flail weapon: http://www.weaponsemporium.com/WE-Flail%203%20Ball.jpg
i tough there is only a spikeball,and i s named morningstar
No, this is flail. It is used in many movies also. I made this one after getting the image from google. You can find more detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flail_(weapon)
How can you make these chains IN SHAPE!!??
Here’s one way:
Revolve the end of a link (like half of a doughnut), copy and paste it with the mirror command and then pull the two ends of the half doughnuts unitl the meet.
Then, very patiently (:D) build a set of links, which you can then copy and paste again and again until you have one chain.
Then copy and paste the whole chain where you need them.
This model is nice. Anyway but try to use real medieval objects.
Like http://www.greifensteig.org/images/articles/schlag1.jpg
I opend a new group for Historical Medival models. I hope i can win you for this group ;)
@Don – you revealed all my secrets. LOL! :) but yes tomy don has already explained the way to do it. I have concentrated to make just one link then copy-paste to create multiple. Using deform – positioning tool I have placed it accordingly so that it look like joint.
In actual historical weapon there is no such fancy texture as shown in my model. But I added this for my own satisfaction.
@rimbold – I joined your group
Very nicely done XQH_XXX :D
Thanks sandman :)
Sorry Parth. There are so many ways to do things, I figured my guess might be totally different from how you actually did it.
There is a lot of other work there that also deserves credit. The star balls and texturing are great – even if they aren’t totally accurate. Literature and movies mess things up almost as much as the historians themselves :).