Souvenir AK-47 | Elite Build (Factory New)

Skin overview

AK-47 | Elite Build is a dark, restrained finish: black furniture, a gunmetal receiver with a smoky hydrographic layer, and thin orange trim along the edges. In Factory New the orange lines are sharp and unbroken, and the small stencilled decals on the receiver and magazine stay crisp. The contrast between matte black and copper accents is at its cleanest here.

Item type: rifle. The weapon is available only on the Terrorist side. Mil-Spec Grade is the lowest rarity found in cases and the most common one among them.

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

Other qualities of this skin: Minimal Wear, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred. The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

Appearance in Factory New

The receiver is finished in dark gunmetal with a smoky grey hydrographic texture, carrying small orange stencilled emblems on the dust cover and side. The handguard, pistol grip and stock are matte black, with thin orange lines running along the edges of the stock and handguard.

All orange trim lines are continuous and sharp on the stock, handguard and magazine. The stencilled emblems and the text on the magazine are fully legible. The black surfaces stay even and matte without visible marks. In game the rifle looks clean and precise from any distance.

Factory New wear: float 0–0.07

The whole float range of Souvenir AK-47 | Elite Build is 0–1; Factory New takes the 0–0.07 segment (7% 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

The skin’s collection is The Chroma 2 Collection with 15 skins in total.

It drops from Chroma 2 Case (on sale since Apr 15, 2015).

What it costs in each quality

By price this skin is 3rd of 7 skins Mil-Spec Grade AK-47 in this quality (the first being the dearest).

Souvenir version

This is the Souvenir version: such copies dropped to tournament viewers in souvenir packages; the team stickers and signatures on them cannot be removed or chosen. Souvenir items never carry StatTrak™. There is also the regular version without tournament stickers.

Which stickers suit it

Stickers in orange, copper, gold or black match the finish and continue its trim lines. Placing them on the receiver side near the existing emblems keeps the composition tidy, while bright multicolour stickers tend to break the restrained look.

What to check before buying

• Look at where the float sits within the wear range, since the orange trim changes noticeably between the low and high end of a grade.
• Inspect the orange edges of the magazine and stock, as they lose paint first.
• Check the stencilled emblems on the receiver and the text on the magazine for fading.
• Review applied stickers and name tags, because they change how the dark finish reads.

Who should buy Factory New

• Players who want the orange trim and decals perfectly crisp.
• Sticker crafters who need a clean dark base for copper or gold accents.
• Conclusion: the grade for those who value a flawless black-and-orange look.