PP-Bizon | Irradiated Alert (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The skin pairs a cold steel-blue base with warm orange striping on the drum magazine, shroud and grip, plus hazard trefoils on the side of the receiver. Minimal Wear keeps that contrast almost intact, with only slight thinning of paint on sharp corners. For most players it is visually indistinguishable from the top grade at a lower cost.

Item type: smg. Consumer Grade is the lowest tier of the rarity scale: the most common skins, most often used in trade-up contracts.

Spray-Paint: paint sprayed over the metal; scratches and scuffs appear early but look natural.

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

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The receiver and barrel shroud are painted in a muted blue-grey with darker shading and diagonal rust-orange bands running across them. Yellow radiation trefoils sit on the side of the receiver, giving the finish its warning-sign character.

Small specks of missing paint may appear on the front edge of the magazine and the corners of the receiver. The stripes and trefoils remain intact. From the first-person view the difference from Factory New is hard to spot. The grip and shroud still look clean.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of PP-Bizon | Irradiated Alert ranges from 0.06 to 0.8; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 11% 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 Nuke Collection with 9 skins in total.

It drops from:

• Atlanta 2017 Nuke Souvenir Package
• Boston 2018 Nuke Souvenir Package
• Cologne 2016 Nuke Souvenir Package
• DreamHack 2014 Nuke Souvenir Package
• ESL One Cologne 2014 Nuke Souvenir Package
• ESL One Katowice 2015 Nuke Souvenir Package

And 2 more — souvenir packages and other sources.

Price by quality

Among 12 skins of the PP-Bizon in the Consumer Grade grade and this quality, this skin ranks 3rd by price, counting from the dearest.

Souvenir version

There is also a the Souvenir version with tournament stickers.

Stickers and crafts

Yellow, orange and black stickers echo the hazard theme and sit well on the blue-grey receiver. Warning-sign or industrial designs placed along the receiver side, away from the trefoils, keep the artwork readable.

What to check before buying

• Check the float position within the wear range, since low floats keep the orange stripes and trefoils noticeably sharper.
• Look at the drum magazine and grip in the inspect view, as these show paint loss first.
• Make sure the radiation symbols on the receiver are still readable if they matter to you.
• Note any applied stickers or name tag, which add little resale value on a Consumer Grade skin.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want an almost clean look and do not need the top grade.
• Sticker crafters looking for a tidy base at low cost.
• Conclusion: practically the same look as Factory New for less.