Final Version!
Coming Along. Still a little polishing to do!
Ugh, It’s becoming painfully obvious that I’m really slow at modeling. 
I didn’t get it done in time for Swordtember 12 but maybe one day I will get a guard made for it…
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looking nice
can you explain how you did the handle in 3D?
did you use the array or twist modifier ?
have fun
happy bl
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The short answer is I did a lousy interpretation of Jonjo Hemmens’ incredible work found here: https://gamesartist.co.uk/RAPIER-HAND-SWORD/
The more in depth version: I did a twist on three circles for the main shape and then separated out the horizontal edge loops and converted them to curves. Then I used the array and curve modifiers to sweep another smaller twist of three circles along each cross-section of the main shape.
After that, I attempted to apply all the modifiers so that I could scale the overall result so that it would be a little more ergonomic but the resulting mesh was ridiculous so I didn’t do much with that.
Hope that helps. let me know if you have any more questions or advice!!!
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I’m calling this one done. The final version isn’t much different than the previous post, I just tweaked the shape of the hand guard a bit and changed the background. The compositing was done in photoshop.
Hi! Although 2 years have passed, could you explain to me how you did the guard of this rapier with circles and curves?
I’m pretty sure I just used bezier curves to get my shape and extruded a mesh shape along it. I was able to use the mirror modifier on the bottom section around the hilt but the top part just took some trial and error until I got the different segments where I wanted them and then I had to do a little mesh editing at the intersections where they all came together to make it look halfway decent.