Glock-18 | Vogue (Factory New)

In Factory New (FN), the big eyes on the slide of the Glock-18 | Vogue and the small inscription beneath them are untouched by anything. The float band of this wear runs from 0.00 to 0.07. It is a Classified skin from The Fracture Collection, and the pistol drops from the Fracture Case.

What the Glock-18 | Vogue looks like in Factory New

The finish is built as pop art. A pair of eyes spreads across the whole side of the slide, with blue irises, dark lashes and white highlights. The slide itself is red-crimson, orange-yellow rays fan out from the eyes, and a yellow border runs along the top edge. A pink ring sits at the muzzle, and the trigger guard is pink-crimson.

The frame and grip are violet-purple, the color darkening toward the bottom. Bare metal is nearly absent, since every part of the pistol is painted.

Factory New carries no wear, so the small two-line inscription near the lower edge of the slide and the thin black outlines read exactly as drawn. The text of the inscription cannot be made out, but the lines themselves are visible. In the lower wears these are the very details that go first.

Where the Glock-18 | Vogue came from

The artist is KASI, from the Steam Workshop. The submission was titled "Glock-18 | Eye Contact" and was posted on July 20, 2018. The author explained the idea like this. A Glock really hits where you can see the whites of an enemy's eyes, so eye contact has to be held at close range.

By his plan, the colors and the teasing inscription should draw enemies in and push them into hasty moves. The Fracture Collection was released on August 6, 2020, and the Glock-18 | Vogue has been part of the set from the start. Valve's catalog number for the finish is 963.

What to check before buying

Three points are worth checking in a Glock-18 | Vogue listing:

• float: the wear band is very short, and the difference inside it is minimal;


• the state of the small inscription and the outlines at the slide edges, since wear reaches them before it reaches the eyes;


• the stickers and name tag already on this copy.

The paint job repeats exactly from one listing to the next. There is little to choose by float: the span of 0.00 to 0.07 is short, just 9% of the finish's full scale, which runs to 0.75.

What the Glock-18 | Vogue costs in Factory New

The other wears against this one:

• Minimal Wear is cheaper by almost half;


• Field-Tested is cheaper by about 2.8 times;


• Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred are cheaper by about 2.6 times.

The lower wears differ from one another by a few percent, and the cheapest of them is Field-Tested.

Among Classified Glocks in this wear, this one is the cheapest. Glock-18 | Shinobu follows at about 1.75 times the price, then Glock-18 | Mirror Mosaic at twice. Glock-18 | Snack Attack costs nearly nine times as much, and Glock-18 | Twilight Galaxy, at the top of the rank, costs tens of times more.

Getting the Glock-18 | Vogue

The pistol drops from the Fracture Case, and no other case holds the finish.

A contract for the Glock-18 | Vogue takes ten skins from one step lower in the same collection. The Fracture Collection has three Classified skins, so the chance of getting this one is one in three. The skin also goes into contracts itself: ten Classified skins return one Covert, and the set has two of those, AK-47 | Legion of Anubis and Desert Eagle | Printstream.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the Glock-18 | Vogue exists. Souvenir copies of the finish turn up as well, although no packages were ever issued for it: those were made only for the tournament map collections. Such copies are built through the Souvenir-O-Matic, which puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on a regular skin from the inventory.

Stickers and craft on the Glock-18 | Vogue

The eyes take up almost the whole side of the slide, and a sticker next to them argues with the artwork. The frame and grip are freer: on the violet and purple, light stickers read better than dark ones. White and black ones suit the red-crimson slide.

Who this wear suits

Factory New is the sensible choice for the Glock-18 | Vogue when:

• you want the small inscription and the outlines intact, which the lower wears no longer have;


• the pistol is being assembled for a craft in CS2, and the slide needs a clean background for stickers;


• a price twice as high as Minimal Wear is acceptable.

For CS2 matches the lower wears are enough: the big eyes on the flat side stay recognizable there longer than anything else.