Souvenir AK-47 | Elite Build (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This wear keeps the look of a tidy, purpose-built rifle with orange piping that outlines the stock, magazine and handguard. Minimal Wear may add faint marks on the sharpest edges, but at normal distance it is hard to tell apart from a fresh copy. It suits buyers who want the clean black-and-orange look without paying for the top grade.

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: Factory New, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred. The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

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.

Tiny scratches may appear on the sharpest edges, such as the corners of the receiver and the tip of the magazine. The orange lines remain intact, with at most small specks of wear. The decals and magazine text are still clear. At normal viewing distance it reads almost the same as Factory New.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir AK-47 | Elite Build is 0–1; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (8% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

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 5th 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 look at before you buy

• 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 Minimal Wear

• Buyers who want a near-clean copy without paying for the top grade.
• Players who use stickers and want them to sit on an almost untouched finish.
• Conclusion: a sensible balance of appearance and cost.