M4A1-S | Icarus Fell (Minimal Wear)

The M4A1-S | Icarus Fell in Minimal Wear (MW): the skin has just two wears, and this is the lower of them. The scale is cut at 0.10, so the band here is 0.07 to 0.10, and there is no Battle-Scarred. It is ranked Restricted, and among Restricted M4A1-S skins it is the priciest. The rifle is played on the Counter-Terrorist side.

What the M4A1-S | Icarus Fell looks like in Minimal Wear

The base is a dark blue-black, with bright turquoise and light blue laid over it. The turquoise runs as a solid fill on the plate by the magazine well, the front of the suppressor and the stock tube. Splashes and drips fan out from it over the receiver and grip. The magazine and the ribbed handguard stay almost clean.

The name suggests wings and feathers, and Valve writes of hydrographics with feathers and melted wax around a sun motif. On the skin itself, though, only blotches and drips read: there are no wings, figures or lettering. In Minimal Wear the wear is already noticeable. Small splashes on the receiver edges, the front cut of the suppressor and the handguard ribs disappear first, and the large fills hold out longer.

Pattern variance on the M4A1-S | Icarus Fell

Copies of this skin differ. The hydrographic film goes on with an offset, so the turquoise fills and splashes fall on different parts of the body from one copy to the next. The difference shows in the image of the specific listing.

Where the M4A1-S | Icarus Fell came from

The Steam Workshop had nothing to do with this skin: Valve made the artwork. It appeared on May 26, 2015, when the Gods and Monsters Collection was added to the game. Valve's catalog lists the finish as number 440.

What to check before buying

Differences between copies of this skin come down to the following:

• the position of the turquoise fills, which is its own on every copy;


• float: in this wear the band is short, 0.07 to 0.10, which is 30% of the skin's scale, so there is no point chasing a number;


• stickers and an applied name, which pass to the next owner with the listing.

What the M4A1-S | Icarus Fell costs in Minimal Wear

The only comparison available is with Factory New, which is cheaper by a factor of 1.2. The price rises despite the wear.

Among the eleven Restricted M4A1-S skins priced in this wear, the Icarus Fell is the most expensive: the other ten are cheaper, and none costs more. The nearest, M4A1-S | Dark Water, is almost eight times cheaper. M4A1-S | Basilisk and M4A1-S | Liquidation cost tens of times less, and the cheapest of the rank are M4A1-S | Night Terror and M4A1-S | Emphorosaur-S.

Getting the M4A1-S | Icarus Fell

This skin is in no case. To trade up for it, you collect ten skins one rank lower. The Gods and Monsters Collection has two Restricted skins, so with all ten from it the chance is one in two.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the M4A1-S | Icarus Fell was never released. No Souvenir packages existed for this finish either, since those were issued only for tournament map collections. Still, a Souvenir copy can be assembled by hand: the Souvenir-O-Matic adds gold tournament stickers and a player autograph to an ordinary skin from your inventory. That explains why single Souvenir copies occasionally appear even where no packages ever existed.

Stickers and craft on the M4A1-S | Icarus Fell

The dark base and the turquoise divide the body into two backgrounds. White and yellow stickers read on both, whereas light blue and blue ones merge with the splashes. The magazine and the ribbed handguard are the cleanest places for a craft, since they carry almost no turquoise.

Who this wear suits

Buying the M4A1-S | Icarus Fell in Minimal Wear is worth it when:

• you need a wear below Factory New, and the skin has no other lower ones;


• the position of the turquoise fills on the specific copy decides, not the float number;


• the rifle is going into a CS2 collection as the priciest Restricted skin of its model.