This weapon is called a morning star and was used predominantly in the later mittle ages. I made these models over my Chistmas/New year break. Naturally they're fully EasyPose equipped and the three ball model comes with single dial ERC control of the sizes of the three balls. The set also comes with the texture shown and with fit-to-hand poses for Mike and Vicki 1 and 2 and the P4 couple. I'm thinking of putting these into a future Renderosity newsletter as a freebie. Would this sort of thing interest people?

Count me in

HELL YEAH! You can never have too many things that cause major damage. grin ;o)

They can be put to good use when dealing with all those Doubting Thomases who are always griping about things here!

I say you can never have too many spikey balls! :-)

I am very interested! :) Jay

:-) Another midevil mayhem weapon, good for bashing Orcs, Trolls and other bad guys

"used predominantly in the later mittle ages" - you mean I'm outta fashion today??! put em away babe, we gotta break out the Electric Spicky Balls!

I had "spikey balls" once...but the doctor gave me a big shot of penicillin and I'm OK now.... Scarab<-....really, I'm OK....

I had one of those, once. Takes some practice before you can use it without killing yourself.

I'm glad you meant a model. When I first read your post heading, I thought you were having a personal problem ;o)...LOL. Seriously tho, it looks great :o). Laurie

OK guys, I'll make these my contribution to the Renderosity newsletter then. I'm not sure how far down the list I am so I don't know which week they'll be out. Sometimes Clint needs a substitute in a hurry when something falls through so I might put myself on standby. LD, Yep I agree they're hard to manage. I've been very careful with these ones to make sure the chain is too short for the ball to hit you on the fingers. A beginner would have to replace that wooden shaft fairly often though. However, they have that great advantage of being able to get around shields and the speed the ball picks up as the chain shortens itself wraping around the shield edge gives the blow that nice little bit of extra punch. Still, back when I used to do this stuff I would have preferred a well balanced medium weight sword any day, just because I like the control. I don't really have the wrist and finger strength for unbalanced weapons. My hands have always been the weak part of my body. igohigh, Electric spikey balls, eh? Hmmm... I'll have to think about that. Could be fun if I can make them look right.

Ajax, So Cool! L.D., I think it's all in the wrist! - TJ

Spiky balls - ah, that's why some guys gotta sit with their legs wiiiiide open, like they're really cool or something... :o) :] Fish

oooooooooooh! i just luuuuuuuuuuuv a man with spiky balls!! :) but do you have a double-flanged flail?

I was thinking of doing a flail. How does the double flanged bit look?

heyas; you know, i have no idea what a double-flanged flail looks like. it just sounds cool. :)

Well a flail is just two sticks with a short bit of chain between them so the second one can swing around. I don't know where even one flange would go, let alone two.