Souvenir AWP | Safari Mesh (Battle-Scarred)

Skin overview

Battle-Scarred AWP | Safari Mesh looks like a rifle that has spent a long time outdoors: large areas of paint are gone and the grid survives mostly in recessed areas. Grey metal dominates the scope and receiver, with olive traces on the stock. It is the most rugged and most affordable reading of this finish.

Item type: sniper rifle. Industrial Grade is the second tier from the bottom: common skins from drops and collections.

Spray-Paint: paint sprayed over the metal; scratches and scuffs appear early but look natural.

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

Appearance in Battle-Scarred

The stock, receiver, scope and handguard are painted in a khaki-olive base with a fine darker mesh grid sprayed over it, broken by lighter tan blotches from the cardboard stencils. The long barrel and muzzle brake stay dark gunmetal, as do the bipod and the grey magazine, which keeps the colour scheme muted.

Battle-Scarred is the heaviest wear available: the scope and receiver are mostly bare grey metal, and the stock is heavily scraped along every edge. The mesh survives mainly in recessed areas and on the lower stock. In game the rifle reads as worn metal with olive traces rather than a clear camouflage. The dark barrel looks much as on cleaner copies, since it carries no paint to lose.

Battle-Scarred quality — float range 0.45–0.8

The float of Souvenir AWP | Safari Mesh ranges from 0.06 to 0.8; the Battle-Scarred quality covers 0.45–0.8 — 47% 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 Lake Collection with 15 skins in total.

It drops from:

• DreamHack 2013 Souvenir Package
• EMS One 2014 Souvenir Package

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

Muted olive, khaki, brown and black stickers sit naturally on this camouflage and keep the military look intact. Placements on the receiver side or near the scope mount stand out against the plain grid, while a single bright holo or gold sticker can work as a deliberate accent.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since a low float in Field-Tested or Well-Worn keeps noticeably more paint on the scope.
• Look at the scope and the top of the receiver first, because these parts lose paint before the rest of the rifle.
• Pattern placement matters little on this finish, so judge the copy mainly by wear rather than by the mesh layout.
• For Souvenir copies, check which stickers are applied and how worn they are, as they cannot be swapped without losing them.

Who should buy Battle-Scarred

• Players on the tightest budget who still want a skinned AWP.
• Fans of heavily worn metal looks rather than clean camouflage.
• Conclusion: the most affordable and most rugged entry into this finish.