Souvenir UMP-45 | Houndstooth (Factory New)

Skin overview

UMP-45 | Houndstooth puts a brown houndstooth print on the receiver and handguard. The magazine, grip and stock stay plain grey. In Factory New the small checks are crisp and the two brown tones separate cleanly, so up close the pattern reads like woven fabric. Pick this grade if you want the textile look with no marks at all.

Item type: smg. Industrial Grade is the second tier from the bottom: common skins from drops and collections.

Hydrographic: the pattern is applied as a film over the metal; wear rubs it down to the base, starting with raised parts.

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

How the skin looks in Factory New

A houndstooth print in dark brown and olive-tan covers the upper receiver, the top rail area, the handguard and the lower receiver around the trigger guard and magazine well. The magazine, pistol grip, vertical foregrip, skeleton stock and muzzle stay plain grey and khaki, which frames the patterned body.

The print is fully intact on the receiver, handguard and lower body, with sharp edges on every check. The rail and receiver corners show no scratches. In game the brown pattern looks even and slightly textured, like fabric. The grey magazine, grip and stock look the same in every grade, since the pattern does not cover them.

Factory New quality — float range 0–0.07

The float of Souvenir UMP-45 | Houndstooth ranges from 0 to 0.6; the Factory New quality covers 0–0.07 — 12% 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

Souvenir UMP-45 | Houndstooth belongs to The Havoc Collection, which holds 19 skins. 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 5 skins of the UMP-45 in the Industrial Grade grade and this quality, this skin ranks 2nd 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.

Stickers and crafts

Warm browns, gold, cream and muted olive suit the houndstooth check and keep the tailored look. Bright neon stickers clash with the earthy palette. A single sticker on the receiver side or a calm row of similar tones works better than a busy mix.

What to look at before you buy

• Check the float within the wear range, since copies at the low end of a grade look cleaner on the rail and handguard.
• Inspect the top rail and the front edge of the handguard, where the print wears off first.
• On Souvenir copies, look at the pre-applied stickers and decide whether they fit the brown pattern.
• Pattern placement barely matters here because the check is uniform, so focus on wear and stickers.

Who the Factory New quality suits

• Collectors who want the houndstooth print with no scratches at all.
• Sticker crafters who need a clean, even background in brown tones.
• The choice for a flawless copy of a calm, fabric-like skin.