Katana – Page 3

Step 17

  1. You may have noticed that the blade is very flat. That was intentional. When modeling it is very important to continually look over the model as a whole. Now we will fix it.
  2. First, grab all the verts along the back-top edge of the blade.
  3. Now we are going to pull these up about 0.02 units and in about the same.

Step 18

  1. Now we need to add a little roundness to the blade. Subdivide another edge down the center of the blade.
  2. Grab those edges and pull them up to just a little higher than the back edge, creating a slight rounding of the blade.

Step 19

  1. One last thing you may have noticed is that we have lots of extra faces on the bottom which we have no use for. Lets get rid of those before we move on.
  2. Select all the bottom faces. Hold down Ctrl as you select them to just add to your current selection.
  3. When you’ve gotten them all, just hit Delete and choose Faces off the sub menu that pops up.
  4. The blade is finished!

Step 20

  1. Now for the hilt (tsuba, more accurately). Select all the verts at the seat of the blade like before.
  2. Extrude down about 0.2 units.

Step 21

  1. Grab all four faces on this new section.
  2. Extrude up about 0.8 units.

Step 22

  1. Now move the edges so that you form something half of an octagon.

Step 23

  1. Repeat the above steps to create another similar section that will become the edge of the tsuba.

Step 24

  1. Save.

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