From the moment I saw Sundered Rose in Vol.9, I knew I wanted to make a model of it--and the weapon sheet they released only solidified that want even more.

I’m a fan of the axe mode and I think the weapon has a nice, simple transformation. I really like the gold engraving on the buttstock, but I wish there was also one on the center of the weapon. I'm also aware that firing this weapon would be really awkward, but I’m not the one in charge of that.

The other thing that really sold me was that they gave me a way to display the weapon and to make it meaningful. A floating glass case with the wrapped vines–that was a real pain to figure out how the vines wrap around the case– to display each weapon was just perfect. And speaking of glass, it takes forever to render good-looking transparent stuff. I need to learn tricks to reduce the render time of each frame for the next time I try something like this.

I thought about putting in other weapon types, but decided to stick with the RWBY ones that I have made so far--which is a fairly decent lot. The only one that I didn’t add to the group was Myrtenaster--Weiss’s weapon-- mostly because it is an old model and I didn’t want to just update its texture without giving it the full remaster treatment. So... you have that to look forward to.