AWP | PAW (Factory New)

This is the AWP | PAW in Factory New (FN), with a float from 0.00 to 0.07: 14% of a finish scale that ends at 0.50. The rank is Restricted and the collection is The Horizon Collection. Buying this AWP in Factory New for CS2 means getting a cartoon collage with no scuffs.

What the AWP | PAW looks like in Factory New

The artwork resembles a dense collage of cartoon animals. The palette is subdued: olive green, sand, brick orange, dark red and turquoise patches. The animals are stacked on one another with no gaps, and you can see round eyes, noses and ears. Valve describes cats, dogs and a creature in a red scarf. The barrel, muzzle brake and scope remain dark metal, with turquoise glints near the muzzle.

The artwork fills the side of the receiver, the cheek of the stock, the butt and the grip. There is no single main element; it is a solid carpet of small figures. In Factory New the figures are whole across the entire area. Scuffs on a copy are set at drop, and wear does not build up later.

Where the AWP | PAW came from

TheDanidem is the author of the finish. He uploaded it to the Steam Workshop on January 6, 2018 under the title "AWP // PawPaw". In his release comment he wrote that the finish is anodized multicolor, so the cats' eyes, the glasses, the metal and the gold shine. The idea, he added, came from the eternal "conflict" between cats and dogs. The finish came out on August 1, 2018 with The Horizon Collection. In Valve's catalog it is number 718.

What to check before buying

A listing of the AWP | PAW is chosen on these points:

• float: the values here run from 0.00 to 0.07;


• name tag and stickers, which carry over with the listing.

The scale gives this wear only 0.00 to 0.07, so wear on copies looks similar.

What the AWP | PAW costs in Factory New

With Factory New as the reference point, the other wears of the skin look like this:

• Minimal Wear comes in about 2.2 times lower;


• Battle-Scarred is cheaper by about 3.1 times;


• Well-Worn is cheaper by about 3.3 times;


• Field-Tested is cheaper by about 3.6 times.

Among Restricted AWP skins in Factory New, the finish sits in the middle of the row: cheaper than Exoskeleton, Black Box and Exothermic, dearer than Phobos and Worm God.

Getting the AWP | PAW

The AWP | PAW drops from the Horizon Case.

A trade-up contract takes ten skins of the rank below from any collections, and the result comes from the collection of one of the inputs. Ten from The Horizon Collection give one of the set's five Restricted skins, so the chance of this AWP is one in five.

StatTrak and Souvenir

StatTrak is available for the AWP | PAW; Souvenir packages never held this skin.

Stickers and craft on the AWP | PAW

The collage is dense and busy, so a sticker on top of it risks getting lost. Contrasting white and black ones read better. The smooth dark metal of the barrel and scope gives a clean backdrop for a small sticker.

Who this wear suits

Factory New for the AWP | PAW is justified in these cases:

• you want an intact collage with no scuffs on the cheek and butt;


• you want a bright AWP for CS2 with a playful design;


• the band of 0.00 to 0.07 is short, so there is no need to pick by float.