PLEASE READ THROUGH THIS PART2 BEFORE DOING EVERTHING IN ORDER, AS I STATED I added a piece of aluminum pipe (taken from a arrow shaft ) for wrist motion back and forth and as a grab handle to hold on to the arm so I don't drop it (I took this out on mine on final design because of space issues)
Started out drawing out the hand template shape, again just sketched it nothing measured. ( I ended up making it too big in the palm but managed to cut down the width later )
I Traced the pattern onto a piece of 1/4 inch Sintra board, heated it and cut it out while the board was still soft wear gloves used a heat gun, or you can use an oven (like cooking a pizza but not so high a temp) I hear some use boiling water as well
Reheat and bend it out
The thumb being bent
Finished palm (endoskeleton )
I added long ends on it and drilled holes to slide the arrow shaft through it, for support
Attaching the extensions, I used a type of screw rivet, had them forever, don't know where to buy more. Just use screws and nuts to fasten the rest of the parts to the palm.
Finished extensions with arrow shaft inserted
A close up
Attached to the arm.
Pulled out the shaft and detached palm, so I could work on the fingers. I bought a tupper wear type bowl and cut it into strips get a flexible thin type plastic for the fingers. (shows the thumb attached and string holes drilled)
Fingers going on , I show two layers of finger plastic in the pictures, I ended up taking one layer off because it was too stiff to bend
Another view
Fingers are Ducted taped , so I could hot glue. Most oily plastics (shiny) won't let hot glue stick to it , the tape helps
Reattached the palm for fit and changes
Close-ups of the fingers
The finger backs were hot glued over the eye hook shafts, then some of the eye hook shaft cut off to allow for the foam to be glued on.
I changed my design again, made it smaller, I cut off most of the bend in the palm
Also changed my attachment, I added a plastic sintra collar inside the arm, for added support for when the fingers are bent I ended up pulling out the arrow shaft and just gluing the two pieces (wrist and hand assembly) with special Sintra glue and more rivets.
This was my final design below
I cut off the black part of the foam for the back pieces, then cut out a channel for the string and
A "foam test" for looks and bendability
More testing with string and eye hooks.
One finger done with string hanging, I ended up taking off all the foam and putting in all the eye hooks for the strings first, then added the foam back .
Almost done just need some rock texture.... go to: page 3 go back to Page 1 SEE MY FULL HELLBOY 2 COSTUME" HOW-TO" Go Here: To see more of my other costumes go to : |
