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Maybe your search-fu might come up with more results than mine, but I know someone a few months or even years ago showed a custom "handprint brush" (I'd have to assume it was poom), since I can't find anything unfortunately...

 

Maybe someone else has a link or file saved somewhere?

IIRC, the best results I saw used a slightly rubbery substance to reproduce an open hand of a model, to give it some flexibility so it would follow power-armour contours better... I sincerely wish I could find the article I was referring to, because it was brilliant and there were very good pictures of the brush being used

I'm sure I remember seeing it on the Studio McVey forums a good while back, but I can't find it now. If I come across it. I'll post a link here.

 

Also, don't forget; you want it to be recognisable as a bloody hand print, but you don't actually want a good print or it spoils the effect rather. A plastic Zombie had worked well because the fingers were splayed and the hand was slightly curled. You don't even need a full hand print either - finger tips sliding to/off the edge of an armour panel look good too!

KrautScientist did something similar, I believe, when working on his Knight.

I did a bloody handprint on one of my Dreadnought a while back with just a brush, let me see if I can't snap a few pics later on.

Cheers for the shout out, mate! You're quite right: I made a "handprint brush" to apply bloody handprints to the shin armour of my Chaos Knight...

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...and ended up painting most of them by hand, because it just produced the better results. Made me feel a bit stupid, too, after going through all that trouble msn-wink.gif

Possibly the best part of the brush I made, however, was to use it to make a dozen or so handprints on a piece of paper: That gave me a really good idea of the size and shape I needed, which made painting those prints much easier.

I was really taken by the Hand Brush aproach back then. Funny to hear how that turned out.

 

Outside of freehand, a lot of Action figures come with extra hands these days. Gundam model kits also - you can actually buy different hands for these as standalone products. They're soft plastics, so getting a decent imprint is mostly a matter of colour saturation, I'd guess.

 

For the less squimish, cut off some smurf hands.

They should work fine, too.

 

Also, who doesn't want to mutilate smurfs? Bonus points from the Warmaster!

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