Middle-Earth Armory

Marshkin

With work eating up most of my free time, I've decided to work on small, high poly weapons to keep my from going stark raving mad during crunch.

First off I thought I'd do Dwalin's Axes from the Hobbit.

Ref:




Block in(AO render) + quick texture paint over.

silvershrimp

Looks like an ok start, I think the overall cheek height should be a bit less because the poll/ butt piece that overhangs the handle looks too big in proportion to your reference. Not much I can say as it looks very early. I assume the bindings on the handle will be separated and sculpted and the texture will be improved. Can't really see the ribbing where the wood first meets the metal, but that could be the render. The wooden handle needs to be fractionally thinner than the metal of the head.