Souvenir M4A1-S | Vaporwave (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This custom paint job mixes a classical statue head, a synthwave grid on the handguard and sunset colours on the silencer. A Minimal Wear copy looks almost the same as a fresh one in game, with any marks limited to small specks on the outer edges. It is a way to own the full artwork while paying less than for the top grade.

Item type: rifle. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Covert is the top weapon rarity: usually the most prominent items of a collection or case.

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

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The receiver is painted white with a Greco-Roman marble head on its side, surrounded by orange, pink and violet sunset strokes. The handguard is purple with a glowing pink grid and a pink rim, while the barrel, carry handle and front sight are tinted blue-violet.

Small specks may appear on the silencer tip and on the edges of the handguard. The white areas can show faint marks under close inspection. The statue and the receiver artwork stay clean. At normal distance the rifle looks practically the same as Factory New.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir M4A1-S | Vaporwave ranges from 0 to 0.597; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 13% 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 Gallery Collection with 17 skins in total.

The source is Gallery Case.

Price by quality

Compared with the Minimal Wear quality, the others go like this:

• Factory New — 1% cheaper
• Field-Tested — 27% cheaper

The comparison uses our cheapest listing of each quality; where there is none, the market reference.

Among 9 skins of the M4A1-S in the Covert grade and this quality, this skin ranks 8th 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.

Which stickers suit it

Stickers in pink, purple, cyan or holographic finishes blend well with the vaporwave palette. Placements on the white stock or along the receiver keep the statue visible and fit the clean base.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, since a low float in each grade keeps the white areas noticeably cleaner.
• Inspect the silencer tip, handguard rims and magazine base, as these parts lose paint first.
• Make sure the statue on the receiver is intact, because it is the focal point of the design.
• Look at applied stickers and the name tag, and decide whether they match the pastel-neon palette.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-perfect look without paying for the top grade.
• Crafters who are fine with tiny edge marks hidden under stickers.
• A sensible balance between appearance and cost.