Souvenir Nova | Turquoise Pour (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The pour finish wraps the Nova in flowing bands of turquoise and gold, giving an otherwise plain shotgun a soft, liquid look. Minimal Wear copies keep that look almost untouched, with at most faint marks on the muzzle and sharp edges. In game it is hard to tell apart from the cleanest grade, which makes it a sensible alternative.

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

Hydrographic: the pattern is applied as a film over the metal; wear rubs it down to the base, starting with raised parts.

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

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The barrel and receiver are covered in a marbled pour of blue-grey and turquoise with brown and gold veins, separated by thin pale lines. The pump forend stays dark steel grey with its ribbed grooves, which frames the colourful parts.

Tiny scuffs may appear on the muzzle and the sharpest receiver edges, usually only in the higher part of the range. The barrel and stock pattern remain fully intact. In game these marks are practically invisible, and the finish looks the same as a factory-clean copy.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir Nova | Turquoise Pour ranges from 0 to 0.678; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 12% 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

Souvenir Nova | Turquoise Pour belongs to The Ascent Collection, which holds 28 skins. 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

Among 5 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

Stickers in turquoise, teal, gold or cream match the pour colours and blend into the marbling. Holo or gold stickers on the receiver echo the gold veins, while a single sticker on the side of the barrel keeps the pattern readable.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, because copies near the lower edge look noticeably cleaner on the barrel.
• Look at the muzzle, the top of the barrel and the receiver corners, as these lose paint first.
• Compare screenshots of the stock, since the pour pattern is placed differently on each copy and some show more gold.
• Check applied stickers and any name tag, as they change the look and do not add value for every buyer.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a factory-like look in game while paying less than for the cleanest grade.
• Crafters for whom tiny edge marks do not matter under stickers.
• A practical way to get a clean-looking copy.