Biohazard Outbreak Response CQC Blade -Resident Evil inspired

Storm Crow

Storm Crow

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This is a blade design I've been wanting to do for a looong time. The initial inspiration came from the large blade used by Chris Redfield in the video game Resident Evil 5 (sold under the name Biohazard 5 in Japan). I'm not a gamer, but have my finger on the pulse of the gaming world a bit. I spent a long time scouring the Internet for a good picture of the knife and found nothing that showed a good profile shot of the blade. Finally, a good picture showed up in my Google Images search. I made a pattern, heated up some 80CrV2, and got to hammering.

The blade is 14 1/2" long and very pointy. The tip drew a few drops of blood while working on it, before there was ever an edge on it. The top side is a false edge.



The in-game knife has slab handles and a handle shape somewhat similar to the MercWorx Goliath. At some point I will play around with translating the video game handle design into something comfortable for the hand in the real world, but on this one I went with an integral socket handle with coyote tan paracord for the main wrap and black two-strand Turk's head knots, impregnated with West System marine epoxy.



And a coyote tan Kydex sheath with some provision for straps. In the game, Chris wears it in a heavy leather sheath over his left shoulder and does a funky combination cross draw, strike, and re-sheath in one smooth motion that would be essentially impossible (certainly difficult) in real life.



And it feels badass in the hand. :D



This is definitely a design that I will be returning to.

Because those damn zombies just won't kill themselves. :cool:
 
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Fricking YEAH! Wowza! Something about the lines of this piece just really rings my bell. Love it. I think it may be the slight recurve. Might be my favorite of your pieces yet.
 
I AM a Gamer and that's dead-on. Good thing I didn't have that when I fought the ship behemoth 47,000+ times (how many it seemed like) to kill it or I'd have likely chopped and pierced my flat screen. :D
 
Kaoticross - Thank you! I've briefly played the first few minutes (not even long enough to get a feel for the controls), but have watched the playthrough on Youtube several times. The former Excella critter is definitely an exciting boss battle, but I have to say they are grossly ignoring the law of conservation of mass with their mutations. :D

I want to do Sheva's knife too at some point, but I like Chris's best. :) But her final knife barrage into Wesker at the end is awesome.
 
So cool, love all the iterations of your bush swords.
 
Thank you, Ben! I feel the same about your work.

Some day I will catch up enough to forge out the Jungle Honey for our Collaboration of Awesomeness! :)
 
I put together a little video with the bush sword last night. I don't know that it has much new info, but it gives an impression of the size in hand. I'm 6' 2" for scale.

[video=youtube;Lze2FTxPVfQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lze2FTxPVfQ[/video]
 
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