Nova | Toy Soldier (Factory New)

The Nova | Toy Soldier (Factory New) is a Restricted shotgun skin hand-painted in the familiar army green of a plastic toy soldier. Factory New is the top grade, showing that flat green coat at its most even and unmarked.

Design

Toy Soldier leans into pure nostalgia: the Nova is painted a single familiar shade of green meant to evoke the little plastic army men of childhood, with no graphics breaking up the monochrome look. It's a community design by the artist hexeth, and it carries the playful flavor line "Pellets and soldiers delivered in bulk."

Nova | Toy Soldier (Factory New) Float and Wear

This finish uses the full float range of 0.00–1.00, and Factory New sits at the very bottom of it. At this grade the green coat reads smooth and consistent, with no scuffing to interrupt the toy-plastic effect — the most uniform the finish ever looks and the closest it gets to a fresh-out-the-bag army man.

Nova | Toy Soldier Rarity

Rarity here is Restricted — the pink tier, an upper rung of the standard weapon grades, sitting above the blue Mil-Spec level. It's a genuinely uncommon grade and a step up in prestige from the common tiers.

Nova | Toy Soldier Case and Collection

The finish belongs to The Horizon Collection and drops from the Horizon Case, released with the "A New Horizon" update in August 2018. Within that case the Restricted tier pulls at roughly 15.98% (a rate shared across the tier), so a specific finish at a specific grade is considerably scarcer than that shared figure suggests.

Nova | Toy Soldier Patterns

The design is fixed, meaning the paint-seed index does nothing to the look — every copy wears the same solid green coat in the same way. There's no blue-gem seed or "best pattern" to hunt here; float and wear are the only things that tell one copy from another.

StatTrak & Souvenir

A StatTrak version exists, pulled from the Horizon Case, adding a permanent confirmed-kill counter that carries over through trades and sales. There's no Souvenir edition — Souvenir weapons come only from Major-tournament packages, and this finish was never offered in one.

Nova | Toy Soldier Price

Factory New sits at the top of this finish's price ladder as the highest grade available, a clear step above Minimal Wear. Within the Nova lineup it lands at the premium end. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

What makes Factory New the best grade here?

At Factory New the green coat sits smooth and even, with none of the scuffing that shows up as float climbs. Because the whole appeal is that clean toy-plastic look, an unmarked surface sells the effect best — which is exactly why Factory New commands the top of the price ladder.

Which gloves match the Toy Soldier?

The army-green monochrome pairs naturally with military-toned gloves — olive, forest, or khaki wraps sit right in theme, and darker green or tan hand wraps round out a cohesive soldier loadout. Bright or cool colors like blue and red tend to clash with the finish's earthy, nostalgic green.

Is Toy Soldier a rare skin?

It's Restricted, the pink tier — a genuinely uncommon grade well above the common white and light-blue tiers. The Restricted slice of the Horizon Case drops at around 15.98% across the whole tier, so landing this exact finish in a specific wear is meaningfully harder than that headline percentage implies.