Tec-9 | Army Mesh (Factory New)

The Tec-9 | Army Mesh in Factory New (FN) is the cleanest condition of the skin: a float from 0.00 to 0.07. It is Consumer Grade rank, from The Safehouse Collection, for the Terrorist side. Buying the Tec-9 | Army Mesh for CS2 in this wear means getting a machine pistol with a rust-and-green mesh, on which scuffing has not yet faded the paint.

What the Tec-9 | Army Mesh looks like in Factory New

The base is a muted green-teal, and over it lies a rust-orange mesh with a fine diamond-shaped cell. The pattern recalls a rusty chain-link fence. In places the mesh is denser, and in places the background shows through it.

The mesh covers the shroud, the receiver, the grip, the trigger guard, and the magazine. Only the barrel and small fittings are left bare, and a patch of yellow brass is noticeable at the muzzle.

In Factory New the edges are lighter than in the lower wears: wear shows there first. The background shows through the mesh, so the finish looks sun-faded even without any wear.

What to check before buying

Before buying the Tec-9 | Army Mesh, check the following:

• float: inside 0.00 to 0.07 the rust-orange mesh is equally clean everywhere;


• stickers and a name tag: on the Tec-9 | Army Mesh they change hands together with the listing;


• origin of the listing: the skin has no regular case, and Souvenir copies come with tournament stickers.

The pattern is the same on every copy of the Tec-9 | Army Mesh, so the pattern index decides nothing.

What the Tec-9 | Army Mesh costs in Factory New

The price order for this skin is unusual. Factory New turns out to be the cheapest wear. Minimal Wear, Field-Tested, and Well-Worn cost only a few percent more, while Battle-Scarred costs more than four times as much.

Among Consumer Grade Tec-9 skins, the skin in this wear shares the bottom row with the other cheapest ones: nobody is cheaper. Above it come Groundwater, Urban DDPAT, and Phoenix Chalk, and at the top of the range stand Bamboo Forest and Tornado. The gap up to Phoenix Chalk is measured in tens of times.

Getting the Tec-9 | Army Mesh

The skin has no regular case. The source is tournament Souvenir packages: the DreamHack 2013 Souvenir Package and the EMS One 2014 Souvenir Package. It cannot be built through a contract, because it is the lowest rank of its collection. The skin itself, though, serves as an input for a contract toward skins of a higher rank.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The skin has no StatTrak version, but a Souvenir one exists: a Souvenir copy can come from tournament packages or be built through the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the Tec-9 | Army Mesh

The mesh across the whole body makes a busy background, and small stickers get lost on it. Large, contrasting stickers win, and there are almost no spots on the pistol free of the pattern.

Who this wear suits

Factory New is worth buying for the Tec-9 | Army Mesh when:

• you want the most even paint with clean light edges;


• the price of one of the cheapest Consumer Grade Tec-9 skins fits your budget;


• the float number inside 0.00 to 0.07 does not matter, since listings in it hardly differ.