Souvenir Tec-9 | Army Mesh (Factory New)

Skin overview

Tec-9 | Army Mesh is a plain field camouflage: olive green and rust-brown paint laid over a fine net pattern across the whole pistol. In Factory New the mesh is crisp and even, and the contrast between green and brown reads clearly on the magazine and grip. It is a simple, tidy finish for anyone who wants the Tec-9 to look neat without bright colours.

Item type: pistol. The weapon is available only on the Terrorist side. Consumer Grade is the lowest tier of the rarity scale: the most common skins, most often used in trade-up contracts.

Spray-Paint: paint sprayed over the metal; scratches and scuffs appear early but look natural.

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

Appearance in Factory New

The whole pistol is sprayed in dark olive green with broad rust-brown and reddish bands, and a fine net texture from the mesh stencil runs over every surface. The perforated barrel shroud stays mostly dark, with olive mesh and brown patches around the holes, while the receiver carries the strongest mix of green and brown.

The paint is complete on every part, and the net texture is sharp from the muzzle to the base of the magazine. The edges of the shroud holes and the receiver corners show no bare metal. In game the pistol reads as an even green-brown camo with clear stripes. Everything looks clean, which matters mostly up close and in the inspect view.

Factory New wear: float 0–0.07

The whole float range of Souvenir Tec-9 | Army Mesh is 0–0.6; Factory New takes the 0–0.07 segment (12% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

Souvenir Tec-9 | Army Mesh belongs to The Safehouse Collection, which holds 15 skins.

It drops from:

• DreamHack 2013 Souvenir Package
• EMS One 2014 Souvenir Package

What it costs in each quality

Among 8 skins of the Tec-9 in the Consumer 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.

Which stickers suit it

Olive, khaki, brown and muted orange stickers continue the camouflage palette, while matte gold or black accents stand out without clashing. The receiver side above the trigger and the magazine are the most visible spots.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since a low float in Field-Tested or Well-Worn keeps noticeably more paint on the shroud and muzzle.
• Look at the muzzle, the shroud holes and the magazine base in inspect, because these lose paint first.
• The pattern is a uniform mesh, so the pattern index barely changes the look and is not worth paying extra for.
• If it is a Souvenir copy, check which stickers it carries and how worn they are.

Who the Factory New quality suits

• Collectors who want the cleanest version of a simple camo.
• Sticker crafters who need an even base without chips.
• Conclusion: the neatest grade, but the gain over Minimal Wear is small.