MP7 | Fade (Factory New)

The MP7 | Fade in Factory New (FN) is the cleanest of the three grades this submachine gun has. The float boundaries here are 0.00 and 0.07. The rank is Restricted, and no case stands behind the finish: copies came from Inferno souvenir packages at the 2018 London major.

What the MP7 | Fade looks like in Factory New

Color travels down the weapon from muzzle to stock. The upper receiver opens in golden orange, passes through raspberry pink and ends blue-violet at the tail. The underside and the pistol grip are golden orange too, the muzzle crown black, with a violet insert on the butt plate. The paints are translucent over a chrome underlayer, so the transition throws back light and shifts with the viewing angle.

Only the body shell of the MP7 | Fade is painted. Magazine, folding stock and front grip were left bare metal, silvery white and pale. That is a good share of what the shooter sees in hand, and color never touches it. No artwork or lettering appears on the finish: the transition works alone.

In Factory New it runs unbroken end to end. The first places to rub are the top ribs of the receiver and the lip by the magazine well, the pink middle. A worn spot goes down to white metal, and the break in the color shows without zooming in.

Where the MP7 | Fade came from

Valve drew the finish itself, and the catalog lists it under number 752. The collection came out on September 3, 2018. The set has no case of its own: its items reached viewers of tournament broadcasts in souvenir packages. Hence the way the releases fall here, with a Souvenir variant and no kill counter.

What to check before buying

Before paying for an MP7 | Fade, look at this:

• the float, which stays near zero in this grade, leaving the receiver ribs even;


• the share of each color, since the gradient falls differently copy to copy, some carrying more yellow at the tail than pink;


• the pale metal of the magazine and stock, unpainted, where gouges show at once;


• the stickers already applied and the name tag.

The band is a short one, 0.00 to 0.07, and it changes nothing in the look.

What the MP7 | Fade costs in Factory New

The finish has three grades and the clean one is the dearest. Minimal Wear and Field-Tested sit almost level: each about one and a half times cheaper. So there is a single step here, paid on the way up to Factory New, not between the two lower grades.

Among Restricted MP7 skins this is the upper part of the rank: six finishes in the same grade cost less and only one costs more. Right below stand MP7 | Ocean Foam and MP7 | Powercore. Above sits MP7 | Neon Ply, dearer by about a tenth.

Getting the MP7 | Fade

The finish does not drop from cases: its source is a tournament one, the Inferno souvenir packages.

The alternative to a finished listing is a trade-up: ten skins a rank below from the same set return one. The collection holds three Restricted finishes, so the odds of landing this one are one in three.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The MP7 | Fade was never given a StatTrak counter, though a Souvenir release exists.

Stickers and craft on the MP7 | Fade

Chrome under translucent paint shines by itself, and a hologram next to it goes unnoticed. Matte stickers in CS2 sit more neatly here. Room for them is by the magazine well and toward the stock, where the body is unpainted; the receiver side with the transition is usually left clear.

Who this wear suits

An MP7 | Fade in Factory New is the sensible buy when:

• an even transition is wanted with no rubbed ribs, and half again the money is no obstacle;


• the Souvenir release matters, this finish having no counter version;


• a set from the 2018 London major is being put together.

The gap between Factory New and the two lower grades shows on the body ribs and by the magazine. For shooting in CS2 Field-Tested does the job; the clean grade is bought for an inventory.