Souvenir AUG | Colony (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The skin keeps the same recognisable split between a sand-khaki body and a grey-black upper assembly. In Minimal Wear the paint is still almost whole, with only small marks that are hard to spot outside the inspect screen. For a finish this simple, the grade gives nearly the Factory New look at a lower cost.

Item type: rifle. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Consumer Grade is the lowest tier of the rarity scale: the most common skins, most often used in trade-up contracts.

Solid Color: a single colour without a pattern; wear dulls it evenly and rubs it off along the edges.

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

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The bullpup stock, the trigger guard area and the housing around the magazine well are painted a flat pale khaki with a slight sand tint. The vertical foregrip and the ribbed magazine are a light grey, while the barrel, muzzle device, top rail and scope stay dark grey to black.

Small specks of lost paint can appear on the sharpest edges, such as the butt and the trigger guard. The large khaki surfaces of the stock and housing remain intact. At normal viewing distance the rifle is practically indistinguishable from Factory New. The grey grip, magazine and dark upper parts still look clean.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir AUG | Colony is 0.06–0.8; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (11% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

Souvenir AUG | Colony belongs to The Mirage Collection, which holds 15 skins.

It drops from:

• Atlanta 2017 Mirage Souvenir Package
• Berlin 2019 Mirage Souvenir Package
• Boston 2018 Mirage Souvenir Package
• Cologne 2016 Mirage Souvenir Package
• DreamHack 2013 Souvenir Package
• DreamHack 2014 Mirage Souvenir Package

And 9 more — souvenir packages and other sources.

What it costs in each quality

By price this skin is 6th of 8 skins Consumer Grade AUG 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.

Stickers and crafts

The pale khaki body works well as a neutral base for stickers in olive, brown, black or muted gold. Placements on the flat side of the stock read best, while brighter colours stand out strongly against the sand tone.

What to look at before you buy

• Look at the float position within the wear grade, since a solid colour finish shows chips on the stock edges clearly.
• Inspect the butt, trigger guard and magazine well rim, as these lose paint first.
• Check whether the copy is a Souvenir, because Souvenir copies come with stickers already applied.
• Note any stickers or name tag, as they change the look of such a plain finish noticeably.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a near-clean look without paying for the top grade.
• Sticker crafters who accept tiny edge marks.
• Practical choice for a clean AUG at a sensible cost.