Souvenir Glock-18 | Glockingbird (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The Glockingbird combines a busy grey ornament with a calm khaki ground and loud yellow accents, which makes the pistol easy to recognise even in a quick glance. At Minimal Wear the artwork is practically intact, with only faint marks on the sharpest edges that are hard to spot outside inspect. It gives almost the same look as Factory New at a less demanding grade.

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

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

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

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The slide is khaki with a grey floral ornament, a yellow checker block near the muzzle and green panels with a checker strip at the rear, where the silver mockingbird sits over the green. A wide yellow stripe curves from the front of the slide across the frame and down into the grip, which is filled with a yellow halftone dot pattern.

Tiny scuffs may appear on the muzzle face and the top edge of the slide. The flat sides, the bird and the yellow stripe remain untouched. At normal viewing distance in game it is practically indistinguishable from Factory New. Higher floats in this grade can show slightly more marks on the slide corners.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir Glock-18 | Glockingbird is 0–0.67; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (12% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

Souvenir Glock-18 | Glockingbird belongs to The Boreal Collection, which holds 29 skins. It does not drop from a case: the collection has none — such skins come from operation drops, souvenir packages or the market.

What it costs in each quality

Among 11 skins of the Glock-18 in the Restricted grade and this quality, this skin is the most affordable.

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 yellow, green, gold or muted khaki tones blend with the artwork without fighting the ornament. The flat khaki area of the slide between the yellow stripe and the green panel is a natural spot, while covering the mockingbird at the rear hides the key motif.

What to look at before you buy

• Look at the float position within the grade, since the muzzle and slide corners show the difference first.
• Inspect the rear of the slide to see how intact the silver mockingbird is on worn copies.
• Check the bottom of the grip and the trigger guard, which lose paint early on this finish.
• If you consider a Souvenir copy, make sure its preset stickers suit the yellow and green artwork.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a near-clean look without chasing the top grade.
• Sticker crafters for whom tiny edge marks do not matter.
• A sensible choice for a clean appearance at a less strict condition.