Souvenir R8 Revolver | Cobalt Grip (Factory New)

Skin overview

R8 Revolver | Cobalt Grip leaves the revolver's steel frame, cylinder and top rail in their usual polished metal and adds colour only to the grip, which carries a deep blue-violet paint with a fine stippled texture. In Factory New the grip colour is even from the top of the frame down to the base, and the steel keeps a clean, reflective sheen. It is a restrained skin for buyers who want the stock look with one coloured accent.

Item type: pistol. 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.

How the skin looks in Factory New

The receiver, barrel, top rail, under-barrel rail and cylinder keep a polished gunmetal steel finish with a faint cool blue tint in the reflections. The trigger guard and hammer stay in the same bare metal.

The grip paint is complete, with an even cobalt-violet tone across the ridges, edges and base. The stippled texture is crisp and the steel parts keep their full polish. In game the grip reads as a clean blue block against bright metal. Nothing on the weapon looks used.

Factory New wear: float 0–0.07

The float of Souvenir R8 Revolver | Cobalt Grip ranges from 0 to 0.803; the Factory New quality covers 0–0.07 — 9% 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 Ascent Collection with 28 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

Among 7 skins of the R8 Revolver in the Consumer Grade grade and this quality, this skin ranks 3rd by price, counting from 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

Blue, violet and silver stickers repeat the grip colour and the steel frame and keep the weapon cohesive. Placing them along the side of the frame or barrel works best, since the rest of the revolver is plain metal and leaves room for a clear accent.

What to look at before you buy

• Look at the ridges between the finger grooves and the bottom edge of the grip, since paint loss shows there first.
• Check where the float sits within the wear range, as a low float in Field-Tested or Well-Worn keeps noticeably more grip colour.
• There is no pattern variation that matters on this skin, so judge copies by wear and stickers only.
• Review any applied stickers and name tag, because they affect how the plain steel frame looks.

Who the Factory New quality suits

• Players who want the cleanest stock-style R8 with a single colour accent.
• Collectors completing the skin in its best condition.
• Sticker crafters who need an untouched steel base for blue or silver stickers.
• Conclusion: the pick for anyone who wants the grip colour fully intact.