MP9 | Pine (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This MP9 carries a single coat of muted pine green over the receiver, grips and stock, with the magazine and muzzle left dark. In Minimal Wear the colour is still uniform, and any marks are small enough to need a close look in the inspect view. It gives almost the same picture as the cleanest grade while usually costing less.

Item type: smg. 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.

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

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

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The receiver, top rail, trigger guard, front vertical grip and pistol grip are all painted the same solid olive-pine green with a soft satin sheen. The folding stock is in a slightly darker green, while the magazine, muzzle and small controls stay dark grey and black.

Tiny marks may appear on the rail teeth and the front edge of the receiver near the muzzle. They are visible only when inspecting closely. At normal distance in game the skin looks the same as Factory New. Grips, stock and flat panels remain untouched.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of MP9 | Pine is 0–0.7; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (11% of the scale). The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Origin of the skin

MP9 | Pine belongs to The Boreal Collection, which holds 29 skins. It does not drop from a case: the collection has none — such skins come from operation drops, souvenir packages or the market.

What it costs in each quality

By price this skin is 10th of 11 skins Consumer Grade MP9 in this quality (the first being the dearest).

Souvenir version

There is also a the Souvenir version with tournament stickers.

Stickers and crafts

The plain green works well with olive, khaki, brown and black stickers for a military look, or with a single gold or white sticker as a contrast accent. Placements on the flat receiver side stand out best because there is no pattern competing with them.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, since on a solid colour the amount of chipping is the only visible difference.
• Look at the rail teeth, receiver edges and grip ribs in the inspect view, as these lose paint first.
• The finish has no pattern, so there is no reason to pay extra for a particular seed.
• Check for applied stickers or a name tag, which change the look of such a plain skin noticeably.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a near-identical look to Factory New while usually paying less.
• Sticker crafters who are fine with tiny marks hidden on the rail.
• Conclusion: a sensible middle ground between condition and cost.