Case hardening leaves steel mottled in blue and gold, and those patches run the whole length of the blade. The handle is dark and the guard keeps the ring by which a bayonet is fitted onto a rifle barrel.

The view model holds 3,406 polygons against the stock knife’s 1,040, which is light work for the engine. Five textures sit on its 38 bones: the blade at 512×512, a 64×64 chrome map for the mirrored sheen GoldSrc gives metal, and the three stock game maps for the skin, the glove and the fingers. The idle runs 150 frames with an inspect in it. The archive ships the view model alone, so in other players’ hands and on the ground the knife stays standard.