Souvenir R8 Revolver | Fade (Factory New)

Skin overview

R8 Revolver | Fade is a Covert finish where transparent paints are airbrushed over a chrome base, so the colour shifts smoothly from gold at the barrel to deep red at the rear of the frame. In Factory New the chrome underneath gives the gradient a mirror-like depth, and every transition stays even from muzzle to hammer. This is the grade for buyers who want the gradient exactly as it is meant to look.

Item type: pistol. Covert is the top weapon rarity: usually the most prominent items of a collection or case.

Anodized Airbrushed: a coloured coating with an airbrushed design on top; the coating holds while the design fades with wear.

The remaining qualities of this skin: Minimal Wear, Field-Tested and Well-Worn. The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

Appearance in Factory New

The barrel is painted in gold and amber that warms toward red as it moves back to the frame, with the muzzle tip and the under-barrel rail left in bare chrome and grey. The cylinder, top rail and hammer area carry the deepest crimson tones, while the trigger and trigger guard reflect a gold-chrome shine.

The gradient is intact on every painted part, from the gold barrel to the red hammer. The chrome base gives the colours an even, glossy reflection with no thinned spots. Edges of the cylinder and the top rail keep full colour. In game the revolver reads as a clean, bright gold-and-red piece.

Factory New quality — float range 0–0.07

The whole float range of Souvenir R8 Revolver | Fade is 0–0.4; Factory New takes the 0–0.07 segment (18% of the scale). The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Origin of the skin

Souvenir R8 Revolver | Fade belongs to The Revolver Case Collection, which holds 17 skins.

It drops from Revolver Case.

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, holo and red stickers sit naturally on the warm gradient, especially along the barrel side. Cool blue or green stickers create a strong contrast and work best as a single accent rather than a full set.

What to check before buying

• Look at where the float sits within the wear grade, since thinning on edges grows noticeably toward the worse end.
• Check the pattern in inspect, because the gradient placement shifts between copies and changes how much gold or red is visible.
• Inspect the muzzle, top rail and cylinder flutes, as these lose paint first.
• Check whether applied stickers or a name tag fit the warm colour scheme.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the gradient and chrome shine without any marks.
• Sticker crafters who need a clean base for premium stickers.
• The choice when the finish must look exactly as designed.