The blade is violet with a dark grey channel down the middle and bright lilac veins branching out of it towards the edge and the point, as if the metal were cracked and lit from inside. The guard, the ring and the pommel are painted to match, and the knife is held in the stock black fingerless gloves; the M9 Bayonet itself is the fighting knife the US Army adopted in 1986.

The view model holds 2,818 polygons against the stock knife’s 1,040, on 40 bones, under fourteen textures. Three are the stock hand maps at 252×250, 124×126 and 252×123; ten are pieces of the knife, among them 200×989 and 204×1001 strips for the two faces of the blade and a 68×800 map for the grip; and a 64×64 chrome map adds the mirrored sheen GoldSrc fakes on metal, which is what keeps the veins looking lit. The idle runs 360 frames, the draw 30, each slash and stab 36. The third-person model was rebuilt to 1,512 polygons where the stock one has 112, and nine knife sounds are in the archive. There is no dropped-knife model, so on the ground it stays standard.