since there is quite some interest in a guide i started creation of a guide
tho i must say if you think this guide will tell you how to create a sword from scratch your wrong
you would be better of downloading tutorials they will explain it better then i will evver be able to
instaid this guide will contain this sword as an example scene
and some fresh untouched ripped models for you to get you started
the goal of this guide will be to show how you can easily chuck out new weapons when the first evver scene is created (in this case my examplescene) and how to scale to get the correct size
p.s. i recommend you start downloading maya2008 as i presume you'd like to start when the guide is released