One flat cobalt blue covers the whole knife, blade, handle and ring alike, with a faint darker smudge near the edge and no pattern at all otherwise, so the shape carries the picture on its own. The stock black leather gloves close over the grip and leave only the hook of the blade and the ring in view. The karambit comes from Southeast Asia, its curved blade following the line of a tiger’s claw, with a ring in the handle for the finger.

The view model holds 26,772 polygons against the stock knife’s 1,040, on 38 bones, and two 512×512 textures do the whole job: the stock Leet Crew arms and one map for the knife. There is no chrome map, so the blue stays matte in every light. The idle runs 401 frames, the draw 46 and the stab 67. The archive is the view model by itself, with no sounds, so in other players’ hands and on the ground the knife stays standard.