What do you get when you take a pair of firearms from an established manufacturer and you send them to a custom shop to work their magic on them?
In this case, you end up with firearms made to raise some… heck, if you will.
Specifically, you get a pistol or a bullpup rifle that you can get the job done with. And look pretty bad… cool. You can look pretty cool with (as you can see in the image above). Alex Landeen writes,
[I]t seemed fitting to bring back the pros at Outlaw Ordnance to show off some new coating tricks on a pair of rowdy troublemakers: Springfield Armory’s new Hellion 5.56 bullpup rifle and upsized Hellcat Pro 9mm wearing a Hex Wasp red-dot optic.
Landeen continues:
The paint scheme on these two guns is the culmination of months of work by the Outlaw Ordnance crew to develop a new process in custom coatings. Traditionally, to create a pattern or image on a surface, the paint is sprayed in layers where the top coats are masked to allow the lower colors to show through. Or for a “battle-worn” look, the upper paint layers are distressed and removed by hand with abrasive paper or power tools.
But the finish on these guns is 100-percent laser engraved. Basically, by writing their own computer software, Outlaw Ordnance can use CNC lasers to remove the upper layers of the ceramic-based paint in very thin passes. The paint is sprayed on at only one-micron thickness, so the laser’s power and process must be very precise. Once tuned, it can be used to cut an image into the paint layers with as many colors as the project may require.
In this case, the guns were sprayed with red, then top-coated with black. The laser then slowly removes the black in passes, allowing computer-controlled precision and a level of detail work that would be nearly impossible to accomplish by hand.
You can get a more complete idea of how these guns look in the video below.
Now, obviously, the Hell Raiser name for these custom jobs is a play off of the Hellion and Hellcat models of firearms,
And while I am not typically a custom paint job kind of guy (not on my vehicles, guitars, or firearms), even a curmudgeon like me has to admit that this is a pretty great paint job on these guns. That’s the kind of thing that you’d love to show off to your friends on range day.
So, if you like Springfield Armory firearms and you like custom jobs, then, a Hell Raiser may be something to put on your shopping list.
