Nice work, Iain. Where did you get the textures>

I made the texture myself using an Occlusion Render from Maya then painting on metallic / scratch effects in Photoshop.

The symbol on the handguard is from the Honor Hold faction tabard in World of Warcraft.

masterpiece
could win

really nice render

Hi Iain,

Congratulations! Your model has been included in the second weekly Top 10 models blog!

Go to http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/11/11/3dvia-top-10-models-this-week-111-1172008/ to check it out.

that looks realy cool, but how would you use it without stabing yourself?

Of course! This weapon is clearly for a trained professional :)

This is wonderful!! :)
Very nicely made indeed!
Nice model.

good job this will be useful for me thanks

Great! Glad you can get some use out of it, feel free to come back and let us know what you used it for!

awesome

cool idea … i love WOW and now i can create a wow caracter myself using that weapon … good job