Souvenir AUG | Torque (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This AUG is recognisable by its industrial palette: near-black parts, chalky white plates and small yellow accents near the stock and grip. In Minimal Wear the overall design is intact, and any marks are confined to a few edges. At normal viewing distance it is hard to tell apart from a Factory New copy.

Item type: rifle. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Restricted sits in the middle of the rarity scale: noticeably rarer than Mil-Spec, yet not truly rare.

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

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The receiver and the rear of the stock are covered with off-white panels laid over a dark graphite base, with a rough, brushed texture along their borders. The barrel, scope and foregrip stay black, which keeps the front of the rifle plain and puts the focus on the body.

Small specks may appear on the sharpest edges of the stock and on the top of the receiver. The yellow lines remain whole, and the white panels keep almost all of their coverage. Because the design already has a rough texture, these marks are barely noticeable. In game it reads the same as Factory New.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir AUG | Torque ranges from 0 to 0.5; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 16% 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

Souvenir AUG | Torque belongs to The Huntsman Collection, which holds 20 skins.

It drops from Huntsman Weapon Case (on sale since Jun 11, 2014).

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

Yellow, black and white stickers follow the existing palette and sit well on the receiver above the trigger guard. Holo or foil stickers with technical or robotic motifs support the theme of the finish. Bright colours outside the palette tend to compete with the yellow trim.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, since copies near the cleaner end keep more of the white panels.
• Look at the stock edges and the yellow trim, as these are the first places to show wear.
• Check applied stickers and any name tag, because they change both the look and the value of a particular copy.
• Note that the Battle-Scarred grade on this skin is lighter than on many others due to its capped float range.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-clean look without paying for the top grade.
• Sticker crafters, since the minor marks are hidden by the rough texture.
• Conclusion: a practical alternative to Factory New with almost the same look.