AK-47 | Leet Museo (Field-Tested)

This is the AK-47 | Leet Museo in Field-Tested (FT), the last step where the finish still commands serious money: below it the price falls to a third. Its float lies within 0.15 to 0.38. It is a Covert skin, and the rifle drops from the Operation Riptide Case.

What the AK-47 | Leet Museo looks like in Field-Tested

The body is built from flat, painterly panels, and each part carries its own piece of a picture. The palette is muted: pale turquoise, cream beige, brick red, dark blue, grass green, gray. Paint covers the handguard, the underside of the gas tube, the top cover and receiver sides, the magazine, the grip and the stock. The barrel, the front sight and the top of the gas block stay dark metal. The most readable fragments are the tree with a green crown on the handguard and the figure in a long beige coat on the magazine.

Wear follows the seams between panels, whose outlines run exactly along the edges of the handguard, the cover and the stock. The rim of the cover, the edges of the handguard and the corners of the stock lighten first. The figures and the tree sit on flat sides, so in Field-Tested the scene stays recognizable and the scuffs read as a frame around it.

Where the AK-47 | Leet Museo came from

The finish's author works under the name Oscar. He posted the Steam Workshop submission on April 19, 2021, as "AK-47 | Pablo | Unsigned". In the description he spelled out the scene: two Elite Crew terrorists walking down A Long on Dust 2 in the manner of Pablo Picasso. The artist's signature was removed from this version on purpose. Valve added the Operation Riptide Collection to the game on September 21, 2021, and gave the operation itself a separate announcement. In the skin catalog the artwork is number 1087.

What to check before buying

Here is what changes from one listing to the next:

• the float: the band is 0.15 to 0.38, and near the bottom edge the panel outlines are still solid;


• the rim of the receiver cover and the corners of the stock, where bare metal shows first;


• stickers on the body, and a name tag if there is one.

The artwork does not vary, so pattern plays no part in the choice. In this grade you pick from the band of 0.15 to 0.38, and the look at the two ends of it is different.

What the AK-47 | Leet Museo costs in Field-Tested

The steps between wears are large on this finish:

• Factory New is three times more expensive;


• Minimal Wear is about a third dearer;


• Well-Worn is almost three times cheaper;


• Battle-Scarred is a little more than three times cheaper.

The main drop in price lies not at the top but right under Field-Tested: at the move to Well-Worn the finish loses two thirds of its value. The reason is that the panel outlines coincide with the edges of the body, and below Field-Tested the mosaic falls apart into pieces.

Within its rank on this rifle, the finish is fifth by price out of twenty-four. Right below it stand AK-47 | Vulcan and AK-47 | AUTOEXEC, about a tenth cheaper. Above it are only the most expensive finishes of the model: AK-47 | Fire Serpent, AK-47 | Gold Arabesque and AK-47 | Wild Lotus.

Getting the AK-47 | Leet Museo

The main route is the Operation Riptide Case. A trade-up contract also yields it: ten skins one rank lower from the same collection. There are two Covert skins in the set, so which one comes out is not known beforehand.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak™ version of the AK-47 | Leet Museo exists. Souvenir copies show up as well, but no Souvenir packages were issued for this finish, as those were produced only for the tournament map collections. Such copies are made through the Souvenir-O-Matic, which adds gold tournament stickers and a player autograph to a regular skin from the inventory.

Stickers and craft on the AK-47 | Leet Museo

The body is busy even without stickers: every part has its own fragment of the picture, so a sticker reads as one more panel. The muted tones of the same palette work best: beige, brick, turquoise. Bright neon sticks out next to museum painting.

Who this wear suits

Field-Tested suits the AK-47 | Leet Museo under these conditions:

• you want a painterly AK for CS2 without paying extra for untouched edges;


• the scene matters more than clean borders, and the figures and the tree are intact in Field-Tested;


• you do not want to go lower on the scale, since the look goes down with the price.

The difference between the two ends of the band is real here: at 0.15 the panel outlines are solid, at 0.38 the edges are light along their whole length. For inspecting in the inventory, people take the lower third of the band.