Souvenir P250 | Gunsmoke (Factory New)

Skin overview

P250 | Gunsmoke covers the pistol in a cream-coloured hydrographic with brown curling lines that look like a gel pen doodle of smoke or waves. In Factory New the cream base stays even and the thin brown outlines are crisp across the slide and grip. This is the cleanest way to see the drawing as intended.

Item type: pistol. 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.

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

Appearance in Factory New

The whole pistol is coated in a cream, slightly warm off-white base covered with brown curling lines that form waves and spirals like a gel pen sketch. On the slide the curls run lengthwise with darker shaded patches near the ejection port, while the frame and grip carry larger rounded swirls that wrap around the panel.

The cream base is even across the slide, frame and grip, and the brown outlines keep their full sharpness. Edges of the slide and the muzzle show no exposed metal. The float band for this grade is very narrow for this skin, so copies differ little from each other. In game it reads as a clean, bright pistol with a clear drawn pattern.

Factory New wear: float 0.06–0.07

The float of Souvenir P250 | Gunsmoke 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 8 skins Industrial Grade P250 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

Stickers in brown, sepia, gold or cream tones blend with the doodle and keep the hand-drawn feel. Simple ink-style or black-and-white stickers on the slide work well against the light base. Very saturated neon colours tend to break the calm palette.

What to look at before you buy

• Look at the slide edges and muzzle first, because the light cream paint shows every chip there as grey metal.
• Compare the float position within the grade, especially in Field-Tested and Well-Worn where the amount of exposed metal varies noticeably.
• A Souvenir version exists, so check whether the offer is a Souvenir or a regular copy and which stickers it carries.
• Check any name tag and applied stickers, as dark or busy stickers can clash with the light doodle pattern.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the doodle pattern fully clean.
• Sticker crafters who need an even cream base as a canvas.
• Conclusion: the grade for those who value the drawing in its intended form.