Making Handmines and Stone Ruins for Doctor Who: Exterminate! Miniatures Game 

Thanks. Originally I was going to make more of it, but I started running a bit low on my zombie hand supply.

Good idea!

Thanks. I found another pile of zombie hands in my bits box that I didn’t know I had, so eventually I’ll probably make another one of these.

It made for a creepy start to the episode, so sounds good.

Thanks. It was a pretty elaborate process, though. First I sculpted the body parts in clay. I made six sculpts: left arm, right arm, body, face/ears, left leg and right leg. The body was sculpted around a pvc pipe stand, the rest were on a board so had one flat side. I then made molds of the pieces out of this more expensive plaster stuff. The body was the only two piece mold. I removed all the clay, coated the inside with Vaseline. The body mold was bound with those truck load ties, the limbs were bound in the same way but with a spare board on the flat side. I poured in liquid latex and sloshed it around inside the mold. I let it cure for a while, then poured out most of it. I then pointed a hair dryer into the mold for a long time. Seriously, I set hair dryers up blowing into a mold for several hours. I then poured in more latex and repeated the process a couple times. The face didn’t need to be sealed and I could just apply coats and let it dry. After all that I would untie the molds and peel out the liquid latex casts. I made basic frame skeletons out of pvc pipe connected with bailing wire. I dressed them in the latex and attached the skin arms and legs to the body skin with little twists of wire. The face was attached to an upside down dollar store styrofoam pumpkin and stuck on the pvc frame. The whole thing was spray painted green and then further painted with regular craft acrylics. So there it is. None of this is exactly professional grade, but it was a lot more ambitious than many of my other projects. Let me know if you have any questions.

This was very helpful. I had considered making molds with silicone but I have a feeling I would make a mess so I am going to first try to use foam to carve out the body pieces and see how that goes. Hard to find these little dudes. Take care.

Thanks, and good luck. I tried carving in foam for The Hulk in the Avengers Halloween and I found it very difficult. For anything I don’t have to make in bulk the most convenient sculpting material for me is usually paper mache.