And then there were two. That’s right, only two more Haunt tutorials left from our Trail of Tears Haunted Trail.
Today’s featured tutorial is how the above prop consumed my life for almost an entire year. It was a well known joke last year that many of my Posey frames were sans hands. Some of that was just running out of time before the big event and needing to get the Halloween props out on the trail as quick as possible. To my credit, I did put empty gloves on a few but they admittedly looked pretty hokey. Where I wanted to be this year was full on hands that not only looked like proper appendages, but were poseable. As you can tell from the above picture, I was able to accomplish this of sorts. Problem was it took me about a year to get through the process and ended up costing a lot more than I ever expected it to. When all was done, I probably could have bought hands off the Internet and been money ahead (ummm no probably there). The fun is in the journey and I can definitely say I learned a hell of a lot about the molding process. It all started with this large box of Alja-Safe. Definitely expensive (this 20lb box cost me ~$140), yet a lot of fun.
Hit the jump to see how this product comes into play and the rest of the process to make Posey hands.
