Nova | Walnut (Factory New)

The Nova is an inexpensive shotgun that rewards a well-planned ambush; a close-range hit can deliver both stopping power and economic value. It has a figured walnut stock.

The surface avoids a flat appearance, leaving component boundaries and changes in material visible beneath the treatment. The main accents sit across the body, while working components retain a more restrained and readable appearance.

The Walnut design joined the Counter-Strike catalog as a distinct work with its own family of variants.

The skin began its path inside the game, where it was treated as a distinct finish for this model from the outset. The Nova variants of Walnut differ in preservation, yet all belong to the same original work.

The assigned rarity of Nova | Walnut is Consumer Grade. It marks the design’s place among items from the same release and does not change with surface wear.

On the Nova, this tier distinguishes the work from artwork assigned to other levels. When variants are compared, rarity should be kept separate from edition and wear because each describes a different part of the item.

The Walnut treatment works with that character instead of burying the item's form beneath decoration.

On the Nova, the Walnut treatment uses the Custom Paint Job method, shaping the way the image meets its material and geometry. Cleaner variants reveal more small detail, whereas worn examples present the same work with a rougher surface.

Nova | Walnut is easy to recognize through the pairing of a familiar silhouette with a distinct surface treatment. Its identity does not depend on inspecting tiny details.

The expression of Walnut on the Nova belongs to the whole composition, whose elements reinforce one another. Condition adds another visible distinction: cleaner examples preserve more of the original detail, while abrasion gives the same design a rougher, quieter character.

The edition range for Nova | Walnut consists of standard edition and Souvenir. Wear variants of the Nova include Factory New, Minimal Wear, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred, each with its own degree of finish preservation.

No dedicated container is listed for Walnut. Its available editions and conditions are still treated separately. Every pairing of edition and wear is treated independently, even when the visible differences appear small.

The principal versions of Nova | Walnut are standard edition and Souvenir. The regular version is issued without a kill counter; Souvenir marks the item as a tournament release.

Versions are separated first by edition and then by wear, so two visually close examples can still belong to different variants. The Nova | Walnut family remains visually consistent, while version and wear describe the qualities of the selected example.