Thing - From Wednesday (a Series on Netflix) One Day Build!

This can be a “One Day Build” if you remember to form the moldable foam the night before you begin working.

My wife needed a prop for her Wednesday costume and I saw the opportunity to justify the right side of our garage looking like the back of a prop warehouse. The total cost of this build was minimal as I already had all the necessary materials. The “Crawling Hand” was the greatest expenditure at $29.95, but as I have stated already - I could not have made this same hand for this price. I thoroughly tested (and returned) a number of animatronic hands, and the best of the lot is the one listed in Materials.

The leather-looking leash at the top of the prop is actually a remnant from a rubber belt that I used on my first version of a chainsaw arm for Chainsaw Man.

The total build time resides within how long it takes for your paint to dry. I set my hand outside in the sun to speed up the acrylic paint drying times.

Supplies

Step 1: Putty and Paint Will Make It What It ‘aint.

1. Begin by making the top scarred brim of the hand, then go on to put a layer of blue tape over the speaker, and the three-way switch. If you don’t blue tape this first the moldable foam will melt to the plastic and be impossible to remove. See image “A”.
2. Next you will want to apply your two coats of Rust-Oleum White. Do this with a respirator on, away from people (and pets), and outside. This should have been image “B”, but I tested the color after the white primer and decided just to do another few coats of the fleshy brown that I mixed over the hot glue scars.
3. I left mine in the midday sun and it dried each coat in minutes.
4. Now you can draw on your scar marks with a marker. I use the Thing prop from the Netflix series as my analog.See image “B”.
5. Lastly, dry brush on black paint to create the illusion of shadowing in the indented parts of the hand. Don’t worry about messing up this stage; worst case scenario, you wipe away the mistake(s) with a damp cloth.

Step 2: Let’s Sew Up Some Scars!

1. This was not a difficult step, but it was rather time consuming and required a great deal of patience. You don’t want to rip the rubber skin, or impale your highly sensitive finger tips as you push through the outer skin of the crawling hand. I let the Netflix Wednesday run in the background as I sewed. Approximate time - 1 hour.
2. The top of the hand demanded a thicker thread than I had, so I opted for black wire. I stitched it through the dried foam at the top of the hand. The foam gives as you tighten the wire, and it adds to the gory appeal.
3. Lastly, I made a leash loop out of a remnant remaining from a failed Chainsaw Man prototype chainsaw arm. Against the coloring of the skin it appears to be almost like a leather leash.

And that’s it - you’ve got a cool first project, and a flimsy justification for accumulating seemingly random items in your garage.