Glock-18 | Fade (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

Glock-18 | Fade puts its whole effect on the slide: a smooth gold-to-violet blend over chrome, set against a dark grey frame. In Minimal Wear the blend looks the same as on cleaner copies, with only light scuffs on the slide edges. It is a way to own the full gradient at the more worn end of a very narrow range.

Item type: pistol. The weapon is available only on the Terrorist side. Restricted sits in the middle of the rarity scale: noticeably rarer than Mil-Spec, yet not truly rare.

Anodized Airbrushed: a coloured coating with an airbrushed design on top; the coating holds while the design fades with wear.

The remaining qualities of this skin: Factory New.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The finish covers the slide only: gold and amber at the muzzle face shift into pink and red along the middle and end in blue and violet over the rear serrations. Under the transparent paint the chrome base shows through, so the colours look glossy and slightly metallic.

Small scuffs appear on the muzzle face and along the top edge of the slide, with occasional light marks on the serration ridges. The gradient itself stays complete, and no colour zone is lost. At normal in-game distance the difference from Factory New is hard to notice. The frame and grip look the same as on any other copy.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.08

The float of Glock-18 | Fade ranges from 0 to 0.08; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.08 — 12% of this skin’s scale. The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

Glock-18 | Fade belongs to The Assault Collection, which holds 7 skins. It does not drop from a case: the collection has none — such skins come from operation drops, souvenir packages or the market.

Price by quality

Among 18 skins of the Glock-18 in the Restricted grade and this quality, this skin is the dearest.

Souvenir version

There is also a the Souvenir version with tournament stickers.

Stickers and crafts

Holographic and foil stickers in gold, pink or violet echo the gradient on the slide. Placing them on the grey frame keeps the colour blend clear, and a single accent near the rear serrations ties into the blue end of the fade.

What to check before buying

• Look at how the colours are spread along the slide, since the share of gold, pink and violet varies between copies.
• Check the muzzle face and the top edge of the slide on the inspect screen for scuffs.
• Compare the float to the range, as Minimal Wear sits in a very narrow band and the gap from Factory New is small.
• Make sure any applied stickers and name tag suit your taste, because they cannot be removed without being scraped off.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want the same colours in game and accept light scuffs on the slide edges.
• Sticker crafters, since stickers on the frame draw attention away from small marks.
• A practical way to get the full Fade look in a narrow, near-clean range.