Glock-18 | Fade (Minimal Wear)

Glock-18 | Fade in Minimal Wear (MW): the float sits between 0.07 and 0.08, because the finish ends at 0.08. It ranks Restricted, comes from The Assault Collection and plays on the terrorist side. It has only two wears: Factory New and this one.

What the Glock-18 | Fade looks like in Minimal Wear

Only the slide is painted, along its whole length. Valve describes the work as airbrushed translucent paints over a chrome base. The color goes from golden copper at the muzzle through crimson-magenta to blue-violet on the rear serrations. The frame, trigger guard, grip and barrel are graphite gray, unpainted.

Float is set at drop. In Minimal Wear it eats the upper ridges of the slide and the rear serrations, which are the edges of the gradient itself. The flat side of the slide holds its color longer. The band is narrow, and copies are nearly indistinguishable by wear.

Where the Glock-18 | Fade came from

The finish was made inside Valve, with no Workshop submission. It came out on August 14, 2013 with The Assault Collection and is listed in Valve's catalog as number 38.

Pattern and how it varies

The gradient is not applied the same way each time: the share of yellow, pink and violet on the slide differs from copy to copy. After float, this is the main difference between listings. There is no data on a premium for a "lucky percentage", so you look at the picture of the slide and pick the color mix you like.

What to check before buying

What sets one Glock-18 | Fade listing apart from another:

• where the colors sit on the slide: how much golden yellow, pink and violet;


• float: across 0.07 to 0.08 there is almost no difference;


• anything the previous owner left on it: stickers, a name tag.

What the Glock-18 | Fade costs in Minimal Wear

Factory New is 1.8 times cheaper than this wear. Among Restricted Glock skins, the Fade in Minimal Wear is the dearest: seventeen skins cost less and none costs more. Synth Leaf, right behind it, costs roughly a sixth of this price, Dragon Tattoo twenty times less, and the rest are lower still. The bottom of the row is Umbral Rabbit, Block-18 and Moonrise.

Getting the Glock-18 | Fade

No CS2 case contains this skin. A trade-up gets it too. Ten skins of the rank below go in, from whatever collections, and one of those inputs' collections supplies the result. Ten from The Assault Collection steer the result there, and it holds two Restricted skins, so the chance is one in two.

StatTrak and Souvenir

There is no StatTrak version of the Glock-18 | Fade. Souvenir packages never carried this finish.

Stickers and craft on the Glock-18 | Fade

The slide carries all the paint, so stickers on the frame and grip do not compete with it. Light stickers read on the graphite frame, and the color of the gradient is matched to the color of the stickers.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear of the Glock-18 | Fade is worth it when:

• you want a Glock with the full color transition across the slide;


• you pick the pattern on the slide from the listing's picture;


• a float band of 0.07 to 0.08 suits you in CS2.