Glock-18 | Candy Apple (Factory New)

The Glock-18 | Candy Apple in Factory New (FN): a flat scarlet slide without a single scratch, which is what the finish is bought for. The wear has a float of 0.00 to 0.07. It is Mil-Spec rank, the Glock belongs to the Italy Collection, and the finish has no ordinary case.

What the Glock-18 | Candy Apple looks like in Factory New

Only the slide of the pistol is painted, and in a single color: clean scarlet covers both the flats and the serrations. The frame, grip and magazine stay dark gray, as from the factory; the trigger is also painted red. The muzzle and the sights are dark, and the factory markings on the frame show as they are. There is no artwork at all, and the whole finish rests on the contrast of the scarlet top and the gray bottom.

For a solid fill, Factory New matters more than it does for artwork. An even color hides no scratch: on the scarlet flat of the slide they stand out at once, and the edge and the serrations give out first. In FN there are no such marks, so the slide reads as a factory part, not as a painted one.

Where the Glock-18 | Candy Apple came from

The finish has no author: Valve made the artwork itself, and no Steam Workshop submission stands behind it. The Italy Collection was added to the game on November 27, 2013. In the Valve finish catalog the item is number 3, one of the first numbers in the entire catalog. In a note dated March 31, 2025, Valve removed Italy from the list of collections in the weekly supply drop.

What to check before buying

Before taking a Glock-18 | Candy Apple, look at these points:

• the float: no part of the flat forgives a scratch on the scarlet;


• the previous owner's stickers and any rename on the Glock-18 | Candy Apple;


• whether the copy is a regular one or a Souvenir, since Souvenir copies are priced separately.

The pattern index changes nothing on the Glock-18 | Candy Apple. Its 0.00 to 0.07 band is short: the difference between listings disappears into the margin of error.

What the Glock-18 | Candy Apple costs in Factory New

The finish has only three wears, and its scale ends at 0.30: there is no Well-Worn or Battle-Scarred for this skin. FN relates to the two neighbors like this:

• Minimal Wear is about a third cheaper;


• Field-Tested is almost one and a half times cheaper.

The step down is large for such a short scale, and the cause is the fill itself: an even color shows wear sooner than any artwork.

Among Mil-Spec Glocks this finish in Factory New is fourth from the bottom out of sixteen. Cheaper are the Glock-18 | Teal Graf, the Glock-18 | Winterized and the Glock-18 | Coral Bloom. More expensive are the Glock-18 | Clear Polymer and the Glock-18 | Oxide Blaze. The top of the rank is held by the Glock-18 | Blue Fissure, the Glock-18 | Ironwork and the Glock-18 | Reactor.

Getting the Glock-18 | Candy Apple

This Glock does not drop from cases. Souvenir copies were handed out in two tournament packages: the DreamHack 2013 Souvenir Package and the EMS One 2014 package. A trade-up into the Glock-18 | Candy Apple takes ten skins one rank below, all from one collection.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the Glock-18 | Candy Apple does not exist, but a Souvenir release does.

Stickers and craft on the Glock-18 | Candy Apple

The scarlet slide is a rare case where a whole even flat with no artwork is given over to a craft. Nearly anything reads on it except red and maroon, which blend into the base. White, black and gold logos give the most contrast. The gray bottom of the pistol is usually not used for stickers, because it stays stock.

Who this wear suits

Buying the Glock-18 | Candy Apple in Factory New is justified in these cases:

• you want a clean scarlet slide without a single mark;


• you're buying the finish for a craft and an untouched base matters;


• you're putting together a red-and-gray set for CS2 from inexpensive items.

For play in CS2 the premium is debatable: at a distance the scarlet slide looks the same at any float. The point of FN on a solid fill lies in inspecting it up close.