First Time Using Liquid Latex

[🪦 sirbrad ●]

Well I finally got a tub of it and made my first arm pieces! It was a lot of fun and can be messy too. I am making arm pieces for my new blood remake costume, and part 8 as well later. I am also making various body parts that will be exposed, and got my gore chest painted up the same color and mad ea vest out of velcro straps attached to the Rubie's spine. I cut the ends off of a black crew length sock, painted the whole thing with latex while on my mannequin forearms, built up some bigger than my own forearms with plastic wrap, as I know latex shrinks some.Let that try for like 4 hours then added another coat. I then sprinkled on oatmeal which was a pain, as it kept sticking to the brush, and then re-sticking on the bottom of the arm because some falls off and on the surface. I then used rolled up paper towels with a good texture and some toilet paper to fill in the gaps. Then more latex, and then touched it all up the next day. Then added a base coat of brown acrylic paint, then added some black in key areas to create more depth, and make the raised areas stand out more with shadowing etc. I then added another coat of watered down brown to darken it and bring out the black even more so.I then touched up tiny missed areas here and there, which is where I am at now. I may add one more coat of paint, then will be sealing it all in with mod podge to give it a wet/shiny look, as I noticed Jason's skins looks like that in the movie. Or looks as though he just came out of the water. I painted the other parts up like this and it looked great. I am still debating whether or not to make the costume look wet, maybe just in some areas. The fraying and cutting is always a pain and very messy, I go through a lot of lint rollers! But so far so good, and I am very happy with my first time using liquid latex for prosthetic without any instructions besides what people have said here and on the internet.Should be fun making more stuff later, and improving each time. I also cut out a Rubies part 7 mask into a hood to fit a part 7 Hockey Mask, and it turned out great. I may also paint it up to look wet. Can't wait until it is done! Still awaiting my maggot head for my finished part 6. <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":biggrin:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"biggrin.gif\" /> Arms are actually darker and more detailed than pics show, and not fully finished. Not sure whether to go with white or grey for part 8, mayb a combination of the two. I will seal the edges with mod podge or goop if that doesn't work, but they are even fine the way they are.<img src=\"http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4898/aug01235ka7.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /><img src=\"http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/3240/aug01222vo5.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /><img src=\"http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/3972/aug01223tz5.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /><img src=\"http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/2168/aug01225zz6.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" />