Glock-18 | Nuclear Garden (Field-Tested)

Field-Tested (FT) on the Glock-18 | Nuclear Garden is the wear where the toxic green of the slide is already touched at the edges while the splotches still read whole. The skin is Restricted rank. The finish has no regular case at all: copies come from the Souvenir packages of tournaments played on Nuke. You can buy the Glock-18 | Nuclear Garden with a float from 0.15 to 0.38.

What the Glock-18 | Nuclear Garden looks like in Field-Tested

Only the slide of this Glock is painted, but all of it. The base is toxic green, with yellow patches spread across it, and dark green, almost black splotches with ragged edges and spatter. The patches are laid out unevenly: lighter at the muzzle, darker toward the rear sight. The frame and magazine stay gray-olive, as from the factory. The muzzle end is yellow, and the slide serrations are painted along with the slide.

In Field-Tested the slide edge and those serrations lighten first: the bright green wears there down to bare metal. The slide's flat surface with the splotches stays intact, so the pattern isn't lost. Valve described the finish in one line: a neon-green pattern on the slide and a caption about a product of nuclear fission.

Where the Glock-18 | Nuclear Garden came from

The finish's author is in-house: Valve made the artwork itself, and there is no Steam Workshop submission behind it. The 2018 Nuke Collection was released on September 3, 2018. In Valve's skin catalog the Glock is number 789.

What to check before buying

On lots of the Glock-18 | Nuclear Garden, these are compared:

• float within 0.15 to 0.38: near the lower bound the green on the slide edge is still solid;


• where the splotches lie: on this finish it differs from copy to copy;


• stickers and an applied name tag: on the Glock-18 | Nuclear Garden they pass along with the lot.

The finish has pattern variance, and after float it is the second parameter by which lots differ in price. The pattern index moves the splotches across the slide. On one copy the dark patches gather at the rear sight and leave the muzzle clean, on another they spread over the whole surface. There are no named phases for the Glock-18 | Nuclear Garden, so what gets compared is the picture itself in the preview, not a label. The 0.15 to 0.38 stretch is long on the Glock-18 | Nuclear Garden, and the copies at its ends differ noticeably.

What the Glock-18 | Nuclear Garden costs in Field-Tested

The gap to the clean top here is huge: Factory New costs about thirty times as much. Minimal Wear costs about three times as much, and Well-Worn about a third more. Battle-Scarred, meanwhile, costs the same as this wear, with a negligible difference between them.

Among Restricted Glocks this finish in Field-Tested is seventh by price of sixteen. One skin stands right above it and another right below it, and the top of the rank is held by two skins that cost tens of times more.

Getting the Glock-18 | Nuclear Garden

This finish does not drop from cases: Souvenir packages of Nuke map tournaments hand it out, starting with the London 2018 Nuke Souvenir Package.

Ten skins one step lower from this collection give one of this rank. The 2018 Nuke Collection has three Restricted finishes, so the result will be random.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the Glock-18 | Nuclear Garden was not issued; a Souvenir variant exists.

Stickers and craft on the Glock-18 | Nuclear Garden

There is plenty of room for a craft here: the frame and magazine are gray-olive and left unoccupied. White and cool-toned stickers read on olive, while yellow and light green ones get lost in the green itself. At the slide edge the paint in FT is already lightening, and it is better not to put a sticker there.

Who this wear suits

Buying the Glock-18 | Nuclear Garden in this wear is the thing to do if one of these fits:

• you want a bright pistol for CS2 without a surcharge for an untouched slide;


• choosing by pattern matters: the splotches are laid out differently, and in FT they are still clearly visible;


• the Glock will go into action rather than onto an inspection in CS2.

Closer to 0.20 the slide edge looks almost as it does in Minimal Wear. At 0.38 the serrations lighten along their whole length, and the green there wears down to metal.