{"id":1282,"date":"2022-04-09T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2022-04-10T06:14:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T11:14:06","slug":"take-my-hand-ill-make-it-i-swear-day-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=1282","title":{"rendered":"Take my hand; I&#8217;ll make it, I swear! (day 56)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve made good headway with the torso I think it might be a good time to get back to the arm, try to get it to a point where it can be integrated into the overall build. First up, the hand:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220409_hand_4.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220409_hand_4_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"WIP hand sculpt, next to 3D printed version\"><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis hand design is one that I worked on for my Blender model of the Zaku Kai, as part of an effort to make that model wholly 3D printable&#8230;  Which means, of course, I could just 3D print the hand parts for the scratch-build model as well. But I don&#8217;t do that in part because I am stubbornly sticking to this as a full scratch build, and in part because building something like this myself is good practice.<br \/>\nThe Zaku hand is pretty simple geometrically, the fingers are made of cylindrical-ish phalanges connected by spherical knuckles&#8230;  and that&#8217;s pretty much it. I decided the best way to build the fingers would be to cut and shape lengths of styrene tube and attach them to a soft metal wire, then use epoxy putty to sculpt on details like the knuckle joints. Getting differently-posed versions of the hand can then be a process of recasting the hand and altering the cast copies to a new pose.<br \/>\nI started by drawing the shape of the hand onto styrene, cutting it out, and using that as a starting point to sculpt the palm. Then, using the 3D printed version as reference, I cut the styrene tubes to make a couple fingers and ran wire through them. There&#8217;s more work to be done of course, but it&#8217;s a start.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220409_hand_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220409_hand_1_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"I drew the shape of the hand on the styrene to cut it out and use as a guide.\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220409_hand_2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220409_hand_2_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"I fleshed out the palm a bit with epoxy putty\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220409_hand_3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220409_hand_3_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"The palm plus the first finger in rough form....\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220409_hand_4.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220409_hand_4_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"I made a second finger. After the detail on the index finger is improved a bit it can be recast and altered to provide the middle and ring fingers\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve made good headway with the torso I think it might be a good time to get back to the arm, try to get it to a point where it can be integrated into the overall build. First up, the hand:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,86,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}