Souvenir Nova | Morning Sun (Battle-Scarred)

Skin overview

Morning Sun turns the Nova into a sand-coloured, ornamented shotgun with a dark brown barrel. In Battle-Scarred the light paint is heavily scratched across the receiver, pump and stock, and much of the fine pattern is broken up. It suits players who want the colour of the skin and like a rough, battered look.

Item type: shotgun. Industrial Grade is the second tier from the bottom: common skins from drops and collections.

Gunsmith: several techniques combined on one item; some parts rub off, others only dull.

Other qualities of this skin: Minimal Wear and Field-Tested.

How the skin looks in Battle-Scarred

The receiver, pump grip and stock are painted a pale sand-cream colour and covered with a dense, engraved-style ornament of thin curling lines. The pump grip has deep horizontal ribs that catch light and shadow, while the stock and receiver carry the finest part of the pattern.

Heavy scratches cover the receiver, pump grip and stock, and large parts of the ornament are gone. The light paint shows wear almost everywhere, including the middle of the stock. In game the skin reads as a battered sand-coloured gun rather than a decorated one. The dark barrel hides wear better and looks the least changed.

Battle-Scarred quality — float range 0.45–1

The float of Souvenir Nova | Morning Sun ranges from 0 to 1; the Battle-Scarred quality covers 0.45–1 — 55% 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 Arabesque Collection with 17 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.

Price by quality

Compared with the Battle-Scarred quality, the others go like this:

• Factory New — 2192× dearer
• Well-Worn — 1109× dearer

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

Among 3 skins of the Nova in the Industrial Grade grade and this quality, this skin is the most affordable.

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

Gold, beige, brown and cream stickers blend well with the sand finish and the ornament. Dark or matte stickers placed on the receiver work as a calm accent against the light body, while bright saturated colours tend to clash with the warm palette.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, since the light paint shows scratches more clearly than darker finishes.
• Look at the pump ribs and receiver edges first, as they wear before the rest of the weapon.
• Inspect the stock to see how much of the fine ornament is still intact.
• Note any applied stickers or name tag and whether they fit the sand colour scheme.

Who should buy Battle-Scarred

• Players who like a rough, battered look on their shotgun.
• The lowest-cost way to own the skin.
• Choose it for the character of the wear rather than the ornament.