Souvenir Nova | Gila (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The Gila finish pairs a dark, earthy lizard hide on the stock and receiver with a cold teal-grey pump and barrel, giving the Nova a quiet, natural look. In Minimal Wear the scales and colours read the same as a fresh copy at normal distance, with only faint marks on edges visible when inspecting closely. It keeps nearly all of the clean look at a lower grade.

Item type: shotgun. Restricted sits in the middle of the rarity scale: noticeably rarer than Mil-Spec, yet not truly rare.

Anodized Multicolored: several colours in the metal coating; it wears little, the colours only dull with use.

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

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The barrel is dark gunmetal with a faint brown speckling, while the pump is finished in a teal-grey anodized tone with bright silver ribs running along it. The receiver carries a dark mottled lizard pattern in black and brown with lighter flecks, separated from the pump by a smooth metal section.

Tiny scuffs may appear on the muzzle and the front edge of the pump, mostly noticeable on the inspect animation. The receiver, stock and grip scales remain intact and keep their colour. At normal playing distance the skin is practically indistinguishable from a Factory New copy.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir Nova | Gila ranges from 0 to 0.3; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 27% 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

Souvenir Nova | Gila belongs to The Glove Collection, which holds 17 skins.

The source is Glove 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

Stickers in brown, tan, gold or muted teal blend with the reptile pattern and the anodized metal. Placing them on the smooth receiver section or the barrel keeps the scale pattern on the stock visible.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since the barrel and pump edges show the first scratches.
• Inspect the muzzle and the pump ribs, as these are the parts that lose colour soonest.
• Souvenir copies come with preset stickers, so look at how they sit against the dark finish.
• Look for any applied stickers or name tag that may change the value or the look.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a look close to Factory New and accept faint edge marks.
• Buyers who care about how the skin reads in game rather than on inspect.
• Conclusion: a sensible balance between appearance and grade.