Souvenir Galil AR | Sandstorm (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

Galil AR | Sandstorm is a Mil-Spec rifle finish with a warm beige base swept by purple, wind-like streaks. In Minimal Wear the sand tones stay bright and the purple shapes keep sharp edges, so the hydrographic pattern reads as intended. This is the cleanest grade the skin can be found in.

Item type: rifle. The weapon is available only on the Terrorist side. Mil-Spec Grade is the lowest rarity found in cases and the most common one among them.

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

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The receiver and handguard are covered in a light beige to peach base with purple streaks flowing along the length of the rifle. The magazine carries long vertical bands of purple over sand colour, and the pistol grip is mostly purple.

The finish looks nearly intact, with only tiny marks possible on the handguard edges. Colours are saturated and the purple streaks have clean borders. In game the rifle reads as smooth and bright at any distance. The stock, grip and magazine look fully clean.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.1–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir Galil AR | Sandstorm is 0.1–0.6; Minimal Wear takes the 0.1–0.15 segment (10% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

The skin’s collection is The Winter Offensive Collection with 13 skins in total.

It drops from Winter Offensive Weapon Case (on sale since Dec 18, 2013).

What it costs in each quality

Taking Minimal Wear as the baseline, Well-Worn — 238× cheaper. The comparison uses our cheapest listing of each quality; where there is none, the market reference.

Among 9 skins of the Galil AR in the Mil-Spec Grade grade and this quality, this skin is 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

Stickers in purple, lilac, gold or warm sand tones blend with the artwork. Placing them on the receiver side keeps the brighter handguard pattern visible.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, since lower values keep the beige brighter.
• Look at the handguard edges and magazine, which lose paint first.
• Compare screenshots of several copies, as the hydrographic print places the purple streaks differently.
• Check any applied stickers or name tag if you plan your own craft.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want the cleanest available look of this skin.
• Collectors and sticker crafters who need sharp colours.
• A good choice for full, bright colours.