Souvenir AK-47 | Nightwish (Battle-Scarred)

Skin overview

Nightwish is built on bright neon spirals, which makes heavy damage look like a weathered painting rather than a plain grey gun. In Battle-Scarred, large areas of paint are gone from the magazine, the edges and the stock, and the deer on the receiver is broken up by bare patches. It suits buyers who like the worn, rough character of the artwork.

Item type: rifle. The weapon is available only on the Terrorist side. Covert is the top weapon rarity: usually the most prominent items of a collection or case.

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

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

How the skin looks in Battle-Scarred

The base of the whole rifle is a dark purple, almost black, covered in neon swirls of pink, magenta, yellow, cyan, blue and orange with a pearlescent sheen. The receiver carries the main motif, a cyan and blue deer head drawn in flowing lines, surrounded by tight spirals.

Large areas of paint are gone from the magazine, the receiver edges, the stock and the muzzle end. The deer head is broken up by bare patches, and many swirls are reduced to fragments. In first person the rifle looks heavily weathered, with neon remnants scattered over dark metal. Only the more protected areas, such as the centre of the handguard and the stock, keep larger pieces of the artwork.

Battle-Scarred quality — float range 0.45–1

The float of Souvenir AK-47 | Nightwish ranges from 0 to 1; the Battle-Scarred quality covers 0.45–1 — 55% of this skin’s scale. Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

The skin’s collection is The Dreams & Nightmares Collection with 17 skins in total.

The source is Dreams & Nightmares Case.

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.

Stickers and crafts

Holographic and neon stickers in pink, cyan or yellow fit the artwork and blend into the swirls. Dark or purple stickers placed on the handguard or near the magazine keep the deer head on the receiver uncovered.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, as a low float in a grade shows noticeably less damage on the magazine and edges.
• Look closely at the deer head on the receiver, since it is the central motif and the most visible part in first person.
• Inspect the bottom and front edges of the magazine, as they wear first on this finish.
• Check whether applied stickers or a name tag suit the neon artwork, because they cannot be moved to another item.

Who should buy Battle-Scarred

• Players who like a weathered, battered look on a bright artwork.
• The most affordable way to own this rifle in its basic version.
• A pick for those who enjoy wear as part of the character.