Weapon Idea

For this project I had to come up with an idea for a bladed weapon and the first thing that came to my mind was a berserker sword with a 9mm pistol as it's hilt.

This is a quick sketch that I made trying to put my ideas on paper. I think I got excited and added too much details to the gun section which makes it look like a toy, also the width of the gun in the sketch makes it look unbalanced and unrealistic, these are areas that I will fix when I'm actually making it in Maya.

This is the finished product rendered in maya. although i am pleased with the way that certain segments came out such as the arrows on the blade, I feel it could have used more detail on the actual shaft of the pistol to make it look more realistic instead of blocky. It could also have done with a proper metal texture for the blade instead of a simple silver blinn.