Nova | Rain Station (Minimal Wear)

The Nova | Rain Station in Minimal Wear (MW) is a gray-blue Industrial Grade shotgun from The Train 2025 Collection. Its float band runs from 0.07 to 0.15, and it looks almost the same as Factory New. The skin exists in three wears, and Minimal Wear is the one in the middle.

What the Nova | Rain Station looks like in Minimal Wear

The whole gun is painted dark gray-blue with a cold tint, and the pattern is barely visible. You can just make out larger, darker patches on the receiver and a few on the stock. The barrel and magazine tube are dark brown, with a green front sight.

The surface is smooth and shows no scuffing. The paint is dark and flat, so the light wear of Minimal Wear is hard to read: there are no bright areas for it to eat into. Wear is set at the drop.

What to check before buying

Listings of the Nova | Rain Station differ in these ways:

• float between 0.07 and 0.15;


• whether the Nova | Rain Station already carries stickers and a name tag;


• a regular copy or a Souvenir one.

There is one artwork for all copies, so no particular pattern needs hunting down. Inside the 0.07 to 0.15 band, the outermost listings differ only by a number.

What the Nova | Rain Station costs in Minimal Wear

Compared with the neighboring wears:

• Factory New costs about the same, with a gap of under three percent;


• Field-Tested is cheaper too, though only by a few percent.

Among Industrial Grade shotguns, the skin in this wear stays with the pack. Turquoise Pour, Morning Sun and Caged Steel sit next to it, and Candy Apple is a little cheaper. Rust Coat and Green Apple stand highest, and the gap to Rust Coat is counted in tens of times.

Getting the Nova | Rain Station

This skin does not drop from a regular case in CS2. It is found only in tournament Souvenir packages, for example Austin 2025 Train and Budapest 2025 Train. Nothing can be traded up into it, since it is the lowest rank in its collection. The Nova | Rain Station appeared on March 31, 2025, when The Train 2025 Collection was added.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The Nova | Rain Station has no StatTrak. A Souvenir version exists.

Stickers and craft on the Nova | Rain Station

A gray-blue field without visible contrast suits almost any combination. Crisp white and yellow stickers show best. The green front sight and the brown barrel put warm stickers next to several colors at once, so a set works better when kept to one palette.

Who this wear suits

Buying the Nova | Rain Station in Minimal Wear is reasonable in these cases:

• you want a shotgun for CS2 with a restrained, dark look;


• the Factory New price is almost the same, but a Minimal Wear copy can sit closer to 0.07;


• you need a base for stickers on an even dark field.