While it is the one of the few weapons in the show that isn't "also a gun", Myrtenaster is a wonderful weapon from a design standpoint. I decided to tackle this weapon because it had some unique challenges and at the time we had a local group that featured the rest of team RWBY but no Weiss. Luckily a friend wanted to do Weiss as well. So I started working on it!

This build had several components which didn't lend themselves to laser cutting so I started the design of the main guard section and the dust cylinder. Everything was built based on season 1 screenshots. As a result out weapon is a bit larger than it appears in the show now. As the animation improved the weapon size was reduced slightly. I also decided to use a 3/4" PVC pipe for the handle. With those constraints I set to work...