Customizing Hellboy's Hand??

[IndyFanChuck]

Has anyone taken a crack at getting the Hellboy Right Hand of Doom and customizing it to have moving fingers?

This is WAY beyond something I could do, but watching the movie, I thought that surely someone on the board may have tried it - or know someone who has.

Any thoughts? Anyone else seen this done, at our "level" here on the boards?

Don't flame me for asking please! :sick

 

[Tim Allen]

Any one have any good reference material of the hand??? I think this could be a fun project to tackle and maybe pull of with some kind of foam material.

 

[madrobot]

I'd be willing to take a crack at it. I'm pretty fair with making stuff.

 

[IndyFanChuck]

The only thing I remember from the Special Editions is that there were two versions. Correct me if Im wrong.

One was a remote controlled version, the other was allowed just the slightest movement for Ron Pearlman.

I work like CRAZY for a few days, but my next day off I will probably watch all the special edition stuff again, to see what I can find and take some screen grabs!

YEAH! SCREEN GRABS!

 

[Neon Sentry]

Yeah, there two. A radio-controlled version (that was delicate as all hell) and a stunt one that had poseable fingers, but only gave Perlman and the stunts wrist articulation. I'd like to see if they worked up anything better for HBII.

 

[TridCloudwalker]

I don't have the skills and materials needed to make one, but it shouldn't be too difficult. You just need to adapt the same principles behind those plastic articulated robot hands in toystores. A cable is attached to the tip of the finger, and run down through rings insode the other finger segments to a handle inside with rings you put your fingers through. The handle will allow you to rotate the wrist, and the rings will pull on the cables and flex the fingers individually.

 

[jonny5]

I made up a rough sketch for something like this recently.

http://gamorreanhistorian.blogspot.com/

I'm looking to do a gamorrean costume with articulated hands
Specifically X-wing pilot Voort saBinring

 

[Tim Allen]

Im thinking just straight out sculpt the hand with the fingers and everything extended flat out and wide. Then mold it using a "Cavity" molding technique and then use some kind of rubber material or poss. even foam.

 

[jonny5]

So then, would you wear that as a glove, or put a mechanism inside it?

 

[Tim Allen]

So then, would you wear that as a glove, or put a mechanism inside it?

I would try to make it wearable

I dont have the dvd nor any reference photos but from what I remember of that hand this should be very tough. Ill working on getting things together and maybe take a crack at it.

 

[SgtFang]

I wonder why on earth they went with R/C??? The wrist looks plenty wide enough for an old fashioned cable op extension to have worked just fine... :wacko

-Sarge

 

[TridCloudwalker]

I wonder why on earth they went with R/C??? The wrist looks plenty wide enough for an old fashioned cable op extension to have worked just fine... :wacko

-Sarge

I was wondering that myself. Next I'll be learning they actually ripped a hole into the fabric of time and space in the first movie instead of just using some CGI.

 

[madrobot]

The reason they went RC, is because the wrist rotator makes it difficult to articulate fingers, as the tension would never stay consistent.

I have a bunch of material, I think I'll give this one a shot. Just need to clear off some space on my worktable tonight.

 

[IndyFanChuck]

You mean you are DONE yet?!!! hahaha lol Let me know if I can help. Even if it's only moral support.

The reason they went RC, is because the wrist rotator makes it difficult to articulate fingers, as the tension would never stay consistent.

I have a bunch of material, I think I'll give this one a shot. Just need to clear off some space on my worktable tonight.

 

[madrobot]

LOL. This is what I get for giving PHArchivist heck for the Death Star Thread.

I'm seriously green with envy over that little project.

With that said, I've got a few things rolling through my studio this weekend, but I will have a few spare moments to get the piece started. I figured out exactly how to make the form, and how I'm going to rig the articulation for it.

 

[Neon Sentry]

Sweet! I love The Right Hand of Doom, but have yet to see a proper articulated replica yet.

 

[zorg]

there are vids on you tube posted by people who have scratch built their own RHOD's some of them show you how to articulate the fingers

-z

 

[zorg]

eg

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DDchpZkwIqs

or

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mht8Zy7cgfU&feature=related

 

[Neon Sentry]

Well, by proper I meant screen accurate.

 

[IndyFanChuck]

Screen accurate or custom, this is one heck of a project, if we (meaning NOT me because I suck at making props) can make this happen! LOL