Glock-18 | Groundwater (Factory New)

Skin overview

Glock-18 | Groundwater is a plain spray-painted finish: a pale green slide over a darker olive frame, with sand-coloured sights, trigger and magazine base. In Factory New the paint is even and matte, so the contrast between the two greens and the tan details is at its sharpest. This grade sits at the very bottom of the skin's range, so even the cleanest copies start with a faint mottled texture on the slide.

Item type: pistol. The weapon is available only on the Terrorist side. Industrial Grade is the second tier from the bottom: common skins from drops and collections.

Solid Color: a single colour without a pattern; wear dulls it evenly and rubs it off along the edges.

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

Appearance in Factory New

The slide is painted a pale, slightly mottled green, with faint darker patches toward the front and along the top. The frame, trigger guard and textured grip are a deeper olive drab, giving a clear two-tone split at the slide line. Sand-tan paint picks out the front and rear sights, the trigger, a small panel on the frame and the magazine base plate, while the muzzle stays bare grey metal. On worn copies the paint chips first along the sharp edges of the slide, at the muzzle end and on the sights, then on the magazine base and the edges of the trigger guard.

The paint covers every part evenly, with no chips on the slide edges or sights. The light mottling on the slide belongs to the finish itself and is not damage. In game the two greens and the tan details look crisp and matte. Everything from the muzzle to the magazine base looks clean.

Factory New quality — float range 0.06–0.07

The whole float range of Glock-18 | Groundwater 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

Glock-18 | Groundwater belongs to The Mirage Collection, which holds 15 skins.

It drops from:

• Atlanta 2017 Mirage Souvenir Package
• Berlin 2019 Mirage Souvenir Package
• Boston 2018 Mirage Souvenir Package
• Cologne 2016 Mirage Souvenir Package
• DreamHack 2013 Souvenir Package
• DreamHack 2014 Mirage Souvenir Package

And 9 more — souvenir packages and other sources.

What it costs in each quality

By price this skin is 2nd of 6 skins Industrial Grade Glock-18 in this quality (the first being the dearest).

Souvenir version

There is also a the Souvenir version with tournament stickers.

Stickers and crafts

Stickers in olive, khaki, sand or brown tones blend with the military two-tone scheme. Placing them on the pale green slide gives the best contrast, while a single dark or gold sticker can work as an accent next to the tan details.

What to look at before you buy

• Factory New covers only a narrow strip at the bottom of this skin's range, so compare floats closely if you want the cleanest copy.
• Look at the front edge of the slide, the muzzle and the sights first, because that is where the paint goes first.
• Check the tan magazine base and trigger on worn copies, as their paint loss is easy to spot when inspecting.
• Souvenir versions exist, so check which stickers are applied and how they sit on the slide.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the cleanest version of this olive Glock with an even matte finish.
• Sticker crafters who need an unchipped pale slide as a calm background.
• In short: the choice for a fully clean look and careful crafts.