Souvenir M4A1-S | Nitro (Factory New)

Skin overview

M4A1-S | Nitro is a restrained rifle finish: a dark grey body with selected parts painted tangerine orange. In Factory New the orange barrel section and small receiver parts look crisp against the matte dark paint, with no chips anywhere. This is the cleanest version of a design that relies on clean colour blocks.

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.

Solid Color: a single colour without a pattern; wear dulls it evenly and rubs it off along the edges.

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

Appearance in Factory New

The receiver, carry handle, handguard, magazine and stock are painted a matte dark grey close to black. Tangerine orange is applied to the exposed barrel between the handguard and the suppressor, to the buffer tube behind the receiver and to small parts such as the trigger, selector and pins.

Factory New covers only a narrow part of the float range, so copies sit close to the lowest possible float. Paint is intact on every part, including the suppressor tip and handguard ribs. The orange barrel and controls look even and saturated. In game the rifle reads as two clean colour blocks.

Factory New quality — float range 0.06–0.07

The float of Souvenir M4A1-S | Nitro ranges from 0.06 to 0.8; the Factory New quality covers 0.06–0.07 — 1% 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 Safehouse Collection with 15 skins in total.

It drops from:

• DreamHack 2013 Souvenir Package
• EMS One 2014 Souvenir Package

Price by quality

Among 8 skins of the M4A1-S in the Restricted grade and this quality, this skin ranks 7th by price, counting from 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

Orange, black, grey and white stickers match the two-colour scheme well. Placing an orange sticker on the receiver or magazine echoes the barrel accent, while dark holo or foil stickers blend into the body.

What to look at before you buy

• Check the float position within the wear, since chips on the suppressor and handguard grow quickly toward the worse end of each grade.
• Inspect the orange barrel section, as its condition defines how the skin reads in game.
• Look at the edges of the magazine and the carry handle, which wear first on this finish.
• Make sure whether you are buying a regular or Souvenir copy and check any applied stickers or name tag.

Who the Factory New quality suits

• Collectors who want the cleanest orange accents.
• Sticker crafters who need an unchipped base.
• Conclusion: the reference version of the design.