Souvenir XM1014 | Monster Melt (Factory New)

Skin overview

XM1014 | Monster Melt is a Restricted custom paint job that covers the shotgun in a crowd of pastel cartoon monsters, with a dark barrel and a pink grip and stock. In Factory New the pinks, teals, greens and yellows stay saturated, and the small details on every creature stay sharp. This is the grade for a buyer who wants the full artwork exactly as painted.

Item type: shotgun. Restricted sits in the middle of the rarity scale: noticeably rarer than Mil-Spec, yet not truly rare.

Custom Paint Job: hand-painted across the whole body; this is the type where wear shows most, the artwork rubs down to metal.

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

How the skin looks in Factory New

The receiver of the XM1014 is packed with cartoon monsters in teal, mint green, yellow, purple and pink, with drips and blobs that give the melting effect. The barrel and magazine tube stay dark grey with small colourful spots scattered along them, which frames the busy centre.

The paint is complete on every part, with no marks on the receiver edges or the muzzle. Outlines of the monsters and the drip details stay crisp. In game the pastel colours look bright and even across the whole shotgun.

Factory New quality — float range 0–0.07

The whole float range of Souvenir XM1014 | Monster Melt is 0–0.75; Factory New takes the 0–0.07 segment (9% 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 XM1014 | Monster Melt belongs to The Overpass 2024 Collection, which holds 16 skins.

It drops from:

• Budapest 2025 Overpass Souvenir Highlight Package
• Budapest 2025 Overpass Souvenir Package

What it costs in each quality

Among 5 skins of the XM1014 in the Restricted 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.

Stickers and crafts

Pastel stickers in pink, teal, mint or yellow blend with the monster artwork, and cartoon-style stickers fit the theme. Placing them on the dark barrel area gives contrast without hiding the characters on the receiver.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since a low value keeps the receiver edges cleaner.
• Look at the top edge of the receiver and the muzzle, as these lose paint first.
• Inspect the pink grip and the stock corners on worn copies for bare spots.
• Check any applied stickers and name tag so they match what you want on the weapon.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the monster artwork complete and sharp.
• Sticker crafters who need a clean base for pastel combinations.
• The grade for the full, untouched look.