Souvenir Tec-9 | Army Mesh (Well-Worn)

Skin overview

This is the Tec-9 in an olive and rust camouflage with a mesh stencil, a finish built to look like field equipment. In Well-Worn the dark metal shows through on the muzzle, the barrel shroud and the corners, which makes the pistol look used and weathered. The pattern is still recognisable at a glance, only less saturated.

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, Minimal Wear, Field-Tested and Battle-Scarred.

How the skin looks in Well-Worn

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.

Bare metal spreads along the barrel shroud, the muzzle, the receiver edges and the bottom of the magazine, and the grip edges are scuffed. The colours on the flat surfaces look duller, and the net texture is broken in places. In game the pistol looks noticeably weathered but the green-brown camo is still clear. The middle of the magazine and the grip sides keep the most paint.

Well-Worn wear: float 0.38–0.45

The whole float range of Souvenir Tec-9 | Army Mesh is 0–0.6; Well-Worn takes the 0.38–0.45 segment (12% 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

Among 5 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 should buy Well-Worn

• Budget buyers looking for a cheap entry skin for the Tec-9.
• Players who prefer a weathered, used look.
• Conclusion: a low-cost option where the camo is still recognisable.