How to Make a Fake Hand

Step 5 The Hand (Part 2)

Pour ballistics gel into mold and refrigerate. If you used enough de-molding agent, after the gel has set you should be able to pull the hand out of the mold in one piece. The final step is to paint on a few layers of liquid latex "skin".

Conclusion

This process may take some trial and error. The good news though, is that the whole thing doesn't cost much money. Also, once you have a really good mold, you can make many hands from the some mold. Another cool thing is that you can use this same process to mold other objects or body parts.

Comments

[skaar]

how about painting the inside of the mould with the latex first? then add the gel...

[miss janel]

if you were to paint the two halves of the mold before you poured the ballistics gel there would be a seam that would be fairly unattractive, though painting it on isnt very smooth either, theres always the option of buying a larger ammount of latex and dipping the gel hand into that but ive not much experience.

[skaar]

i was thinking that it could be poured into the mould, and the latex rotated around it, then pour out.

[ndeclares war]

I was thinking the same, seems like a great idea.