Five-SeveN | Forest Night (Factory New)

Skin overview

Five-SeveN | Forest Night is a hydrographic camouflage finish in cold steel blue with darker grey-blue blotches spread over the slide and frame. In Factory New the soft camo shapes keep their edges and the matte coating looks even from muzzle to grip. This grade shows the pattern exactly as intended.

Item type: pistol. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Consumer Grade is the lowest tier of the rarity scale: the most common skins, most often used in trade-up contracts.

Hydrographic: the pattern is applied as a film over the metal; wear rubs it down to the base, starting with raised parts.

The remaining qualities of this skin: Minimal Wear, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred.

Appearance in Factory New

The slide and frame are covered in a muted steel-blue base with irregular darker grey-blue blotches, applied as a hydrographic so the camo wraps over the shapes of the parts. The grip is a lighter, slightly mottled pale blue, which makes the lower half look brighter than the slide. The slide release, takedown lever and magazine release stand out in a pale cream tone, while the trigger is silver and the muzzle, rail underside and magazine base stay dark. The scheme is low in contrast and reads as a single cold colour from a distance. On worn copies the top edges of the slide, the muzzle and the front of the frame lose paint first, followed by the grip edges and the base of the magazine.

The Factory New range for this skin is very narrow, so all copies look close to each other. The camo blotches keep clean borders and the paint covers every edge of the slide. In game the pistol shows an even matte blue with no visible damage. The cream controls and pale grip look fresh and uniform.

Factory New quality — float range 0.06–0.07

The whole float range of Five-SeveN | Forest Night is 0.06–0.8; Factory New takes the 0.06–0.07 segment (1% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

The skin’s collection is The Train Collection with 15 skins in total.

It drops from:

• Atlanta 2017 Train Souvenir Package
• Berlin 2019 Train Souvenir Package
• Boston 2018 Train Souvenir Package
• Cologne 2016 Train Souvenir Package
• DreamHack 2013 Souvenir Package
• DreamHack Cluj-Napoca 2015 Train Souvenir Package

And 6 more — souvenir packages and other sources.

What it costs in each quality

Among 6 skins of the Five-SeveN in the Consumer Grade grade and this quality, this skin ranks 4th by price, counting from the dearest.

Souvenir version

There is also a the Souvenir version with tournament stickers.

Stickers and crafts

Cold blue, grey, black and white stickers keep the calm look of the camo, while a single cream or tan sticker echoes the colour of the controls. Placements on the flat side of the slide or the frame above the trigger guard read best against the blotches.

What to look at before you buy

• Look at the top edges of the slide and the muzzle, since they lose paint first and show the real state of the copy.
• Check where the float sits within the grade, because a low float in Field-Tested or Well-Worn looks noticeably cleaner on the slide.
• On Souvenir copies, check the applied stickers and their wear, as they change the look of the slide.
• The camo pattern placement varies little, so judge the copy by wear rather than by pattern.

Who the Factory New quality suits

• Collectors who want the camo with clean edges and full coverage.
• Sticker crafters who need an even blue base without scuffs.
• The choice for those who want the finish exactly as designed.