Souvenir Nova | Forest Leaves (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This Nova carries a simple woodland camouflage of olive paint and stencilled foliage, closer to field gear than to decoration. In Minimal Wear the leaf pattern stays complete, and any marks are limited to small specks on the sharpest edges. For a finish this plain, the difference from Factory New is hard to see in a match.

Item type: shotgun. Consumer Grade is the lowest tier of the rarity scale: the most common skins, most often used in trade-up contracts.

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

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

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The base colour is olive green, with darker brown-green leaf shapes sprayed over it in a loose, overlapping pattern. The receiver and the ribbed pump grip carry the densest part of the camouflage, while the long barrel stays a darker olive with only faint traces of the stencil.

Tiny specks of missing paint can appear on the muzzle and the tops of the pump ribs. The leaf pattern on the receiver and stock remains complete. At normal distance these marks are practically invisible. The overall look is almost identical to Factory New.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir Nova | Forest Leaves ranges from 0.06 to 0.8; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 11% of this skin’s scale. The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

The skin’s collection is The Aztec Collection with 6 skins in total. It does not drop from a case: the collection has none — such skins come from operation drops, souvenir packages or the market.

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 olive, brown, gold or muted black blend well with the woodland camouflage. Placements on the receiver look most natural, since it carries the densest part of the leaf pattern. Bright saturated colours tend to clash with the subdued palette.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within the grade, since the finish starts close to the top of Factory New and those copies cover only a narrow band.
• Look at the muzzle and the pump ribs first, because they lose paint before the rest of the weapon.
• Souvenir copies come with fixed stickers, so check that their colours work with the olive camouflage.
• Make sure any name tag or applied stickers suit the item if you plan to keep it as is.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-clean look without hunting for the narrow Factory New band.
• Sticker crafters who are fine with barely visible specks on the edges.
• Conclusion: practically the same appearance as Factory New in a match.