Attaching Weapons to Creatures

[Fellow]

Hello folks, through my ventures in Model Editing, I stumbled upon another concept: adding a weapon to a creature. In the model viewer, you can place a weapon in the creature, but how would you add it permanently to a creature model. For example, the old pre-BC High Elf models, how would you make it so they are always carrying a 2h-sword, and doing 2h attacks?

Thanks~

[Fellow]

Bump, (offering rep)

[Fellow]

Bump once more, answers people, answers!

[*ChAoS*]

You could probably do it with 3ds max, if you are good at modeling. However, there may be an easier method.

[Nightclaws]

Perhaps take the skin and edit it so there's a weapon?
Or model it with a modelling program?

Possibly both?