On with part two ....

Take a small piece of the clay and roll into a sausage shape.



The amount of clay will vary for each finger but a ball of clay around ½ to ¾ inch should be enough for bones on the hand and about ¼ to ½ inch for the finger segments. Wrap the clay around the wire form.



Remove surplus clay or add clay as required. Continue until the wire form is completed.





Add small amounts of clay for the wrist bones.



Leave to dry. (takes approx 48 hours to dry) When dry, paint or stain as required. The hands can then be attached to the arms.

Note: You can dampen the clay to smooth it out, and clay modeling tools will help with shaping.

This is what the hand looks like after the modelling







It took me just over 1 hour to make the hand for the how to. Obviously it will take longer if you want more detail. 1 pack of 500g DAS clay will make at least 2 pair of hands.

The completed hands can be seen on the picture of my ground breaker skeleton. (well one at least lol)




Hopefully, you may find this of some use, especially replacing blucky hands.

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Those look very nice.

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Thanks for the how-to! The hands look really good.

Did you seal them with something to make them weatherproof?

The hands on my skelly ground breaker were first painted in acrylic paint to match the skelly I was making. Then the entire skelly was given a complete coat of waterproof stain for protection and to give it an aged look. The hands withstood being out for about two weeks in the damp grass

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Very Nice.
I am goign to have to try it with the beads, I have used cut up pen tubes, but this looks much better.

I'd say damp grass is a pretty good test. Thanks for the reply.

I think I just might have to add these hands to the to-do list.

Thanks for the tutorial. Will try for sure.

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thank you!

thanks for the great tutorial, they look great, and seem quite easy to make. I definately will use the idea. Thanls again

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FYI...
I have edited the how to so that the pics are now shown...

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