Souvenir AWP | PAW (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The skin is built around a busy collage of animal characters spread over the stock, handguard and grip, with a dark barrel and scope left unpainted. At Minimal Wear the collage looks practically the same as on a fresh copy, and the dense design hides the few tiny marks that may appear. It is the grade where you keep almost all of the colour for less than the cleanest copies usually ask.

Item type: sniper rifle. Restricted sits in the middle of the rarity scale: noticeably rarer than Mil-Spec, yet not truly rare.

Anodized Multicolored: several colours in the metal coating; it wears little, the colours only dull with use.

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

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The finish covers the receiver, handguard, grip, magazine area and stock with a dense collage of cartoon cats, dogs and a creature in a red scarf. The palette is dominated by orange, rust brown and red, with dark outlines and scattered green and teal highlights that break up the warm mass.

A few tiny specks can appear on the sharpest edges, such as the back of the stock and the lower edge of the handguard. They are small and mostly hidden by the busy pattern. In game the skin reads the same as a Factory New copy. The receiver, grip and central parts of the stock stay clean.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir AWP | PAW 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

The skin’s collection is The Horizon Collection with 17 skins in total.

The source is Horizon 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

Warm stickers in orange, red and gold blend with the pattern, while teal or green accents echo the small cool highlights in the artwork. Animal-themed or cartoon-style stickers suit the theme, and the plain dark barrel area gives a calm background for a single contrasting sticker.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, as copies at the low end of a grade look noticeably cleaner on the stock edges.
• Inspect the butt, cheek rest and underside of the handguard, since these parts lose paint first.
• Look at applied stickers and their condition, as scraped stickers change the look of the busy body.
• Check for a name tag if you care how the item is listed in your inventory.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a near-flawless look in game without paying for the cleanest grade.
• Sticker crafters looking for a practically clean base at a more reasonable level.
• Conclusion: the most sensible balance of appearance and cost.