Souvenir Nova | Walnut (Factory New)

Skin overview

Nova | Walnut is a plain shotgun finish that pairs a dark metal barrel and receiver with a brown, figured walnut-style stock and pump. In Factory New the wood tone is even and the fine grain lines on the forend and stock stay crisp. This is the grade for buyers who want the classic hunting-gun look without any blemish.

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

Custom Paint Job: hand-painted across the whole body; this is the type where wear shows most, the artwork rubs down to metal.

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

Appearance in Factory New

The barrel, magazine tube and receiver are finished in dark, nearly black gunmetal with a slight sheen. The pump forend and the stock are coated in reddish-brown wood colour with fine figured grain lines that run in ribs across the forend and along the grip area of the stock.

The brown coating on the forend and stock is intact and the grain lines are sharp. The dark barrel and receiver show an even, unbroken finish. In game the shotgun looks clean from any distance. The Factory New window is narrow for this skin, so copies sit close to the lowest possible float.

Factory New wear: float 0.06–0.07

The float of Souvenir Nova | Walnut ranges from 0.06 to 0.8; the Factory New quality covers 0.06–0.07 — 1% 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 Inferno Collection with 6 skins in total.

It drops from:

• Boston 2018 Inferno Souvenir Package
• DreamHack 2014 Inferno Souvenir Package
• DreamHack Cluj-Napoca 2015 Inferno Souvenir Package
• ESL One Cologne 2014 Inferno Souvenir Package
• ESL One Cologne 2015 Inferno Souvenir Package
• ESL One Katowice 2015 Inferno Souvenir Package

And 2 more — souvenir packages and other sources.

Price by quality

By price this skin is 3rd of 9 skins Consumer Grade Nova in this quality (the first being the dearest).

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

Gold, brown, beige and muted paper-style stickers match the wood tones and keep the classic look. Placing them on the dark receiver gives better contrast than putting them on the brown stock.

What to look at before you buy

• Check the float position within the wear range, since low floats keep the forend edges noticeably cleaner.
• Inspect the forend edges and the stock grip, as they are the first parts to lose the brown coating.
• Souvenir copies carry fixed stickers, so make sure their look suits you before buying.
• Check for a name tag or applied stickers that may change the plain wooden look.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the cleanest possible copy of a plain wooden finish.
• Players who prefer a neat, traditional look on their shotgun.
• A tidy choice for those who value a flawless classic look.