Arm Covers

[🪦 wickedbeard ●]

Ok real simple.Get these exact gloves,<a href=\"http://cgi.ebay.com/New-PIRATE-MUSKETEER-GLOVES-GAUNTLETS-Costume-Accessory_W0QQitemZ130233492436QQihZ003QQcategoryZ155348QQtcZphotoQQssPageNameZWVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\" target=\"_blank\">http://cgi.ebay.com/New-PIRATE-MUSKETEER-G...1QQcmdZViewItem</a>Now, cut off the hand and the buckles, get yourself some liquid latex off e-bay.Tear up toilet paper, and roll it into long joint looking rolls, dip them into the latex, and randomly put them onto the gauntlet sleeve until it is covered with them.Make sure you overlap them here and there to look like dead rotted skin.When it is all covered, brush the latex all over it and saturate the TP really good.when it dries it will be flexible and you will have the texture you need.then simply paint.Spray paint works fine, as long as it is flat spray.I also use acrylic watered down and dabbed on with a paper towel to get darker colors into the little pockets.If you want a slightly smoother look, you can find shelf liners that have a bit of a texture, that you can glue to the arm cover.Again, you will want to coat it with latex, and paint.these are really inexpensive ways, that anyone can do.I used the TP method on the lower portion of my Manhatten shirt to achieve the texture.after you cut the glove part off you wanna run some flexible goop to seal the cut edge, as there is a comfy foam lining in these gloves.Hope this helps some of ya.

[🪦 Homicidal#9 ●]

very cool man, though i hope you don't mind if i add a little tip as well to go along with your tutorial. In my experiences doing this kind of thing, I learned to cut off the fingers and not the entire glove. This will leave you a weightlifter type glove with the entire sleeve still intact. Then you follow mr. beard's great instructions to the letter. The only thing you would have to add is more of the TP and latex and paint and whatnot higher up the sleeve to extend onto the back of the glove and palm of the glove area some. The whole point in this little modification is to avoid any skin showing. You will have one entire seamless zombie arm that will go straight up into the gloves that you put on over the fingerless glove....just my two cents and again, great job on the tutorial....Take care,Tommy

[🪦 wickedbeard ●]

Yeah that is a great tip.You could also leave the entire glove and make rotted hands too.The first idea would apply if you wanted to wear a different glove with the covers.Hey anyone who wants to add great ideas to this thread, do it.You can never have too many cool cost effective ideas.lol

[🪦 Martoch ●]

I'm bookmarking this one for sure! Thanks to you both for the info. <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":thumbsup:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"thumbsup.gif\" />

[🪦 monteburns ●]

Great recipe.My compliments to the chef.

[🪦 sirbrad ●]

Would other types of paper work as well? Paper towels, paper mache, newspapers? Not sure about that one as they have ink on. I asked long ago for tips on creating arms and got similar tips I think. What is the best latex to buy? I always see some on eBay too small it seems, but was told the ones sold by Monster Makers was great.

[🪦 sirbrad ●]

Also would those rubber cleaning gloves work?<a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Rubbermaid-G305-12-Large-Heavy-Rubber/dp/B000BQNZIC/ref=pd_bbs_3?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1214625644&sr=8-3\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.amazon.com/Rubbermaid-G305-12-L...5644&sr=8-3</a>They are pretty cheap and may not be as comfortable, but are even cheaper. Would latex stick to them as good or better?

[🪦 Homicidal#9 ●]

you can use pretty much any type of paper. I personally would stick with tp or paper towels just because you get such a great texture from it. I wouldn't use newspaper due to it being so slick and plain. Rubber gloves would work as well. Hell you could take a thermal long sleeve shirt and latex and tp up the arms and whatnot and use that. If you do it that way, you can add chest and back decay to the shirt as well and just have one thing to put on to cover all the areas. I honestly believe though that the best to use would be the underarmour shirts. Just make sure you have a form to put them on close to your shape so that once everything is dried and painted, you don't cut any circulation off because the fit is too tight...latex has a good bit of give...but not that much.Finally in respect to latex, I use good old RD-407 latex...it's the industry standard after all. Try to stay away from the makeup grade latex because it isn't as hardy and is very very thin....take care,Tommy

[🪦 sirbrad ●]

Yeah I read about using sleeves awhile back too. That would be cool to make one whole shirt for each outfit. Not sure what I would use for a form, unless I used my mannequin arm or even my own doing it one at a time. Or maybe I could stuff the sleeves with something.

[🪦 wickedbeard ●]

I got some good latex from bodybagging.com off e-bay.works nicely.You can use this method for the exposed flesh areas of the shirts.I get an old pair of light colored denim pants, cut out the parts to put under the holes and rips, and coat them in latex and either use TP or paper towel bits for texture, or anything light you can sprinkle on the latex(gravel makes great texture) and give it another thick coat,let it dry and paint.As for the dish gloves, those work ok, but they are really hard to pull on and off, unless you spread goop over a jersey glove and stick your hand in the dish glove.It will add girth to the hands, and make it easier to remove and put on.