Souvenir M4A4 | Neo-Noir (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The skin is built around a single character drawn in magenta and cyan, framed by gray and white panels with heavy black linework. At Minimal Wear the illustration still looks clean from any normal viewing angle, and any marks sit on the outer edges rather than on the face. It gives almost the same picture as the cleanest grade at a lower step.

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.

Other qualities of this skin: Factory New, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred. The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The receiver carries the central figure: a woman with bright pink hair and blue highlights, drawn with thick black outlines over a gray-and-white background. The handguard is covered in white and pale gray panels with black ink shading, while the barrel and muzzle stay dark with a touch of blue and pink near the front.

Small scuffs may appear on the bottom of the magazine and the outer edges of the handguard. The central figure and the stock remain clean. At normal distance in game the difference from Factory New is hard to see. Copies near the cleaner end of the grade look practically untouched.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir M4A4 | Neo-Noir is 0–0.9; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (9% 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 Clutch Collection with 17 skins in total.

The source is Clutch Case.

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

Pink, magenta, cyan and holographic stickers match the palette of the artwork. Black-and-white or monochrome stickers work on the handguard and stock without competing with the portrait. Placements over the central figure on the receiver tend to hide the main part of the design.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the grade, since a cleaner float keeps the receiver portrait and handguard edges in better condition.
• Look at the magazine and the handguard edges on the inspect view, as they lose paint first on this skin.
• On worn grades make sure the character's face on the receiver is not scratched through.
• Check applied stickers and name tag, because they change how the artwork is framed.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a near-clean look at a lower step than Factory New.
• Crafters for whom minor edge marks do not matter.
• A sensible balance between appearance and cost.