AWP | Capillary (Minimal Wear)

The AWP | Capillary in Minimal Wear (MW) is a Mil-Spec skin with a red web of vessels on a dark receiver. It is the second cleanest wear of the finish, and its float starts at 0.05, so Factory New here is tiny. In CS2 this AWP comes from the Prisma 2 Case.

What the AWP | Capillary looks like in Minimal Wear

The barrel and top rail are light gray metal with a fine grain. The receiver, stock and handguard are dark gray, nearly black, crossed by a mesh of thin red and pink lines. The rings on the barrel, at the muzzle and on the scope are red. The bipod is gray, with red hinges.

The red mesh covers the receiver, handguard and stock, gathering into knots along the sides. The lines branch like capillaries and in places converge into dense bundles. The long barrel is left bare, held only by the rings. There are no inscriptions or figures.

The receiver edges and the red barrel rings lighten first: thin mesh on raised parts breaks sooner than on flat surfaces. Wear is fixed at drop, and within the 0.07 to 0.15 band those spots are faint.

Where the AWP | Capillary came from

The finish's author is m03h. The AWP | Capillary appeared in the game on March 31, 2020, and its Valve catalog number is 943. In the notes for that update Valve listed The Prisma 2 Collection on a separate line.

What to check before buying

Here is what changes from one AWP | Capillary listing to the next:

• float: this wear has a band of 0.07 to 0.15;


• the red barrel rings, which dull sooner than the mesh;


• any stickers or name tag the copy already carries.

Pattern is identical across copies, and with only 0.07 to 0.15 to work with, the copies look alike.

What the AWP | Capillary costs in Minimal Wear

Against the other wears, the price ratios run like this:

• Factory New is about seven times dearer;


• Field-Tested (FT) costs one and a half times less;


• Well-Worn (WW) costs about a sixth less;


• Battle-Scarred (BS) costs one and a half times less.

The seven-fold price of Factory New follows from the scale. The skin's float starts at 0.05, so FN occupies 0.05 to 0.07, many times narrower than on other finishes.

There are only five Mil-Spec AWPs in the lineup. The AWP | Capillary in this wear is fourth by price from the top. Above it stand AWP | Snake Camo (a gap of a hundred times), AWP | Black Nile and AWP | Acheron, and only AWP | Arsenic Spill is cheaper.

Getting the AWP | Capillary

There is one case, the Prisma 2 Case. A trade-up contract cannot produce this skin, because Mil-Spec is the bottom rank in the collection. It does work as an input: ten such skins yield one Restricted skin of the collection.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The AWP | Capillary has a StatTrak™ version. There are no Souvenir packages for it.

Stickers and craft on the AWP | Capillary

The dark receiver takes light and colorful stickers readily: they read on the nearly black ground. Red stickers merge with the mesh. The cleanest field for a craft is the stock and handguard between the lines. Better not to cover the knots on the sides, since they carry the finish's recognizability.

Who this wear suits

Buying an AWP | Capillary in Minimal Wear makes sense when:

• you want an intact red mesh on the receiver corners without visible scuffs;


• paying seven times more for Factory New is not justified by its narrow 0.05 to 0.07 band;


• the rifle is a base for a dark craft in CS2.

If some wear is acceptable, Field-Tested costs one and a half times less.