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I worked on the movie. As far as I know no live firing weapons were used - everything that looks like a real gun is either airsoft, deactivated, or a complete fantasy. Most of the "Fantasy Rifles" were foam mouldings (which used plastic pudding pots, with attached lids, to simulated the capped ends of a scope!). The hero guns had tubing for CO2, which was pulsed through by an FX guy with a fire extinguisher piped up to the gun. The flashes are CGI.
==Medieval English Sword==
 
* Any sword experts here?  Help me out.  
The handguns were airsoft with the trivial modification required to dry fire; you can see the little white blasts of gas, which was entirely appropriate to the director's ideas that everything was steam-powered.
: I'm no expert but I think that may be a longsword --[[User:AdAstra2009|AdAstra2009]] 03:21, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 
*Yeah, looks to be around the right size. Longsword's a two-handed grip and a blade > 35in, I think.  
The enormous emplaced gun used by Pertwee's character had pneumatically-actuated shell ejection from a rotating belt of faux shells, the column of steam being created by a wallpaper stripper.
i dont think its a long sword not a big enough grip
 
    Long swords are one handed swords. It's probably a bastard sword.
And how did you miss El Jesus's shotgun! Made of two chunks of aluminium scaffold pole for barrels, and again with tubing for CO2 (note the moment where he and Jane's character go back to back). Ridiculously, shown firing repeatedly, even though it had the mechanism to show the double barrels being reloaded.
:A Bastard sword IS a type of Long sword, so are Broad swords and Two-handed swords (not including Great swords). - [[User:Mr. Wolf|Mr. Wolf]] 19:18, 4 April 2011 (CDT)
 
[[User:Tim|Tim]] 03:34, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Shot on R and S stages at Shepperton and on the Isle of Man in summer 2006.
[[Image:MutantChronicles14a.jpg‎|thumb|none|600px|Benno Fürmann and Devon Aoki ready their swords]]
[[Image:MutantChronicles15a.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A lineup of the cast with their Medievel English style Swords.  Cast from left to right: Lt. Maximillian von Steiner ([[Benno Fürmann]]), Cpl. Valerie Duval ([[Devon Aoki]]),Brother Samuel ([[Ron Perlman]]),Severian  ([[Anna Walton]]),Cpl. Jesus 'El Jesus' de Barrera ([[Luis Echegaray]]),and Maj. 'Mitch' Hunter ([[Thomas Jane]]). ]]
I´ve seen the film a couple of times, and i´d swear that those are one-handed longswords. The fact is that actors that don´t have sword training usually wields them as if they were 'bastard' swords. Bastard is a term coined in the XIX century to name what is today called a Hand and a half sword, that is, swords with a long enough pommel to be used one or two handed. That type of sword have a blade between 105-115 cm long, and the swords in the film are clearly shorter, about 85-90, a length usual for a one-handed longsword.
It looks to defiantly be a one-handed sword.  By the design it seems like a late middle ages french style one and a half handed broadsword. I didn't see it quite close enough to see if it was a one handed sword that the actors hold like a one and a half.

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Medieval English Sword

  • Any sword experts here? Help me out.
I'm no expert but I think that may be a longsword --AdAstra2009 03:21, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
  • Yeah, looks to be around the right size. Longsword's a two-handed grip and a blade > 35in, I think.

i dont think its a long sword not a big enough grip 

    Long swords are one handed swords. It's probably a bastard sword.
A Bastard sword IS a type of Long sword, so are Broad swords and Two-handed swords (not including Great swords). - Mr. Wolf 19:18, 4 April 2011 (CDT)

Tim 03:34, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

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Benno Fürmann and Devon Aoki ready their swords
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A lineup of the cast with their Medievel English style Swords. Cast from left to right: Lt. Maximillian von Steiner (Benno Fürmann), Cpl. Valerie Duval (Devon Aoki),Brother Samuel (Ron Perlman),Severian (Anna Walton),Cpl. Jesus 'El Jesus' de Barrera (Luis Echegaray),and Maj. 'Mitch' Hunter (Thomas Jane).

I´ve seen the film a couple of times, and i´d swear that those are one-handed longswords. The fact is that actors that don´t have sword training usually wields them as if they were 'bastard' swords. Bastard is a term coined in the XIX century to name what is today called a Hand and a half sword, that is, swords with a long enough pommel to be used one or two handed. That type of sword have a blade between 105-115 cm long, and the swords in the film are clearly shorter, about 85-90, a length usual for a one-handed longsword. It looks to defiantly be a one-handed sword. By the design it seems like a late middle ages french style one and a half handed broadsword. I didn't see it quite close enough to see if it was a one handed sword that the actors hold like a one and a half.

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