Currently: Bioshock mask, DIY Tardis, DIY disco ball death star, and of course some skull stuff. …Then we decided to instead add it to our geek tablescape (which changes every few weeks). (Hey look! That’s our giant DIY D20 bookend on the other side!) At first it was just going to be a bookend… Īfter the hand was painted, we glued it with E6000 to a thin piece of stained scrap wood. We did mention there was a lot of trial/error involved in this project, right? You can see the rejected hands on our instagram. Actually, first we painted one teal, then one gold, then one silver. Once the hand was out, we sanded the wrist base (so it was flat), then painted the whole thing silver. Another tip: maybe put lotion on your hand first, so it doesn’t look all dry and line-y like ours came out. So yeah… be CAREFUL when you remove the plaster hand from the alginate, or plaster fingers will break right off.
What we’re not showing you are the three hands we destroyed before this one. After about ten minutes, your hand will just pull right out.Īfter filling the negative hand mold space with plaster of paris (as directed) and letting that dry overnight, we cut the plaster hand out. We cut a hand-hole, poured an inch of alginate into the box, held one of our hands in there, then poured the rest of the alginate on top. We didn’t want to waste alginate, so used an insert to make the box a little smaller.
We cut up a Geek Fuel box to use for the mold form, and sealed it with some duct tape. We just found it easier to hold the LLAP Vulcan salute in correct-enough form that way.
Nerd bookends trial#
The main thing we did differently was – after much trial and error and wasting an entire order of alginate – we did our hand mold horizontally, instead of vertically. Little tiny lumps and a few bubbles didn’t seem to make a big difference in the final product.
After a lot of testing, the ideal consistency seemed to be kind of like cake batter. We’ll defer instruction-giving to Martha, for the most part, since we preeeetty much did ours the same way. We’re onto the Voyager segment of our yearly binge-watch-all-ST-all-the-way-through tradition ( one of us has been a convention-going Trekkie for most of her their life), so have Star Trek on the mind somehow more than usual.Īnyway. While the candle holder version is very cool, we decided to go LLAP vulcan salute instead. We were looking online for some easy Halloween projects, and came across these plaster/alginate hand molds. Like our DIY geek soap from a few weeks ago, this is another project that was inspired by Martha Stewart. We’re working on a few new Star Trek inspired home decor projects, starting with this Star Trek hand mold (book end? Statue?).
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