XM1014 | Blue Spruce (Factory New)

Skin overview

XM1014 | Blue Spruce is a Consumer Grade shotgun finish where individual parts are spray-painted in solid colours: a dark slate blue-green barrel and receiver against a pale mint forend, grip and stock. In Factory New both tones are even and unbroken, so the two-colour split reads cleanly from muzzle to buttstock. The float range starts above zero, so this grade covers only a narrow band at the clean end.

Item type: shotgun. Consumer Grade is the lowest tier of the rarity scale: the most common skins, most often used in trade-up contracts.

Solid Color: a single colour without a pattern; wear dulls it evenly and rubs it off along the edges.

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

How the skin looks in Factory New

The barrel, tube magazine, top rail and receiver are painted a dark slate blue-green with a slight sheen. The ribbed forend, the trigger area, the pistol grip and the collapsible stock are a pale mint green, with a darker cheek piece on the stock. There is no pattern: the look comes entirely from solid blocks of colour applied part by part. On worn copies the paint chips first at the muzzle, the forend ribs, the receiver edges and the outer edges of the grip and stock.

The paint is intact on every part, with clean borders between the dark metal and the mint furniture. The forend ribs and stock edges show no chips. In game the shotgun reads as a crisp two-tone model. Everything looks as on the clean preview.

Factory New quality — float range 0.06–0.07

The whole float range of XM1014 | Blue Spruce is 0.06–0.8; Factory New takes the 0.06–0.07 segment (1% 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

The skin’s collection is The Lake 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 6th of 8 skins Consumer Grade XM1014 in this quality (the first being the dearest).

Souvenir version

There is also a the Souvenir version with tournament stickers.

Stickers and crafts

Stickers in teal, mint, dark green or muted silver match the cool two-tone scheme. Placing them on the dark receiver gives the most contrast, while lighter stickers sit best on the mint stock.

What to check before buying

• Check the float position within the grade, since chips on the light mint parts become visible sooner than on the dark metal.
• Look at the forend ribs, the muzzle and the stock edges, as these lose paint first.
• The finish has no pattern, so copies of the same float look alike and pattern seed does not matter.
• Souvenir copies exist, so check whether the item is a souvenir and which stickers it carries.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the cleanest available two-tone finish.
• Sticker crafters who need intact paint around applied stickers.
• The pick for a perfect inspect view of a simple finish.