Hey it's me, long time no see. After what has seems to be forever I can finally say that we're as good as done with our defusal map called Studio. This means that after a long period of absence I can finally start working on CS:GO weapon finishes again. Like I probably said before I still have some oxidized skins that were in development but never finished. Today I am happy to finally present the Nova Oxide Blaze. I previously made the XM1014 Oxide Blaze and I used pretty much the same idea and concept as I did on that finish. Since we already had a XM1014 Teclu burner which features flames on the main body I thought it would be a smart idea to publish one for the nova aswell.


It felt good to finally work on a weapon skin again and I got to say that the work progress was super smooth. Like I always do I first started out with mapping out my areas and applied the rust material. After that I applied the plastic material to the cockback mechanism and the buttstock. Then I drew the flames on the body and added all the little paint details to the body of the gun. Only the backpart of the nova was where I was kinda doubting whether or not I should apply paint and drawings. The back of the gun is never seen in-game and only in third person and I got the feeling that everything I drew there was disconnected from the entire design. Therefore I decided not to apply white paint and drawings there.


The wear progress goes all the way up to 0.80. In Factory New and Minimal wear there will mainly be wear on the shell ejector and sight. Starting from Field-Tested you will start noticing that the main body and the paint starts scratching off. When the finish is unboxed in Battle-Scarred it will have lots of wear in the high float values but in the low floats it will still have some clean parts.


Thank you for reading through this wall of text and rating the submission. I hope you enjoy it. I would love to invite you to check out my defusal map Studio. A lot of time and effort has been put in that project and I sincerely hope you like the looks of the level. All images showcasing the Nova Oxide Blaze are made on de_Studio.

Once again thank you and have a good one!