Souvenir Tec-9 | Army Mesh (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The skin pairs dark olive and reddish-brown stripes with a stencilled net texture, giving the Tec-9 a muted military look. In Minimal Wear the finish looks practically the same as a fresh copy, with only tiny marks that are hard to spot outside the inspect screen. It suits a buyer who wants a clean-looking camo and is happy to skip the top grade.

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: Factory New, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

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.

Tiny scuffs may appear at the muzzle and on the sharpest edges of the receiver. The magazine, grip and flat sides keep full colour and a crisp mesh. At normal distance in game it is hard to tell apart from Factory New. The overall look stays clean, and the savings over the top grade cost almost nothing visually.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir Tec-9 | Army Mesh is 0–0.6; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (13% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

The skin’s collection is The Safehouse Collection with 15 skins in total.

It drops from:

• DreamHack 2013 Souvenir Package
• EMS One 2014 Souvenir Package

What it costs in each quality

By price this skin is 5th of 7 skins Consumer Grade Tec-9 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.

Stickers and crafts

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 should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a clean-looking Tec-9 without paying for the top grade.
• Crafters who are fine with marks only visible in inspect.
• Conclusion: the practical choice for a near-new look.