Nova | Clear Polymer (Factory New)

Skin overview

Nova | Clear Polymer is painted to make the shotgun's casing look transparent, showing springs, internal parts and green accents through a pale grey-blue shell. In Factory New the illusion is at its sharpest: the glassy surfaces stay smooth and the green details read as clean, bright highlights. This is the grade for buyers who want the see-through effect exactly as designed.

Item type: shotgun. Restricted sits in the middle of the rarity scale: noticeably rarer than Mil-Spec, yet not truly rare.

Custom Paint Job: hand-painted across the whole body; this is the type where wear shows most, the artwork rubs down to metal.

How the skin looks in Factory New

The whole Nova is covered in a pale grey-blue, glass-like finish that imitates a transparent casing. Through the forend a coiled spring is drawn around the magazine tube, and the receiver shows internal parts with bright green highlights. The barrel stays dark, with a green accent near the muzzle and another at the front of the magazine tube. The stock continues the translucent look, with a spring drawn through the grip and a green detail by the trigger guard. On worn copies the paint goes first from the muzzle, the edges of the forend, the receiver corners and the bottom of the stock.

In Factory New the finish is clean across the barrel, forend, receiver and stock. The glassy grey-blue surface looks smooth, and the green highlights are sharp. In game the transparent-casing effect reads exactly as drawn, with no marks on the edges.

Factory New wear: float 0–0.07

The float of Nova | Clear Polymer ranges from 0 to 1; the Factory New quality covers 0–0.07 — 7% 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

The skin’s collection is The Operation Broken Fang Collection with 17 skins in total.

It drops from Operation Broken Fang Case.

Price by quality

Compared with the Factory New quality, the others go like this:

• Minimal Wear — 1.5× cheaper
• Field-Tested — 5.8× cheaper
• Well-Worn — 7.2× cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 7.1× cheaper

Based on the cheapest SkinOut.gg listing of each quality, otherwise on the market reference.

Among 13 skins of the Nova in the Restricted grade and this quality, this skin ranks 2nd by price, counting from the dearest.

StatTrak™ and Souvenir

This skin has a the StatTrak™ version with a kill counter. Right now it is 11% cheaper than the regular one. There is also a the Souvenir version with tournament stickers.

Which stickers suit it

Green, silver or holographic stickers match the green highlights and glassy grey-blue shell. Placing them on the receiver keeps the drawn springs on the forend and grip visible.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, since the see-through effect depends heavily on clean edges.
• Look at the muzzle, the forend edges and the bottom of the stock, as these lose paint first.
• Make sure the green accents on the receiver and near the muzzle are still visible on worn copies.
• Check applied stickers and name tag, as bright or busy stickers can clash with the clean transparent look.

Who the Factory New quality suits

• Collectors who want the transparent-casing effect without any marks.
• Sticker crafters who need a clean glassy base.
• The best choice when the see-through look is the main reason to buy.