Does anyone know where I can purchase gundam hands or robot hands that are articulated. just hands. Or else cheap sets that have hands?

i checked ebay. but they are single hands. Im wondering if i can by a whole bunch.

I find that a lot of tfs need hand replacement.

Any suggestions?

 

HLJ used to sell just hands, but at the moment they are discontinued.
You can check if something comes back in store:
http://www.hlj.com/hljlist2/?Scale=0&Word=hands&MacroType=DetAcc&SeriTxt1=&Dis=-2&GenreCode=All

 

I need them too and it sucks that they are DC

 

sucky. would be nice.
I usually but gundam kits, that are around $40.00 they usually come with 3 sets of hands too. 1 set articulated, 1 set fists, 1 set open hands. kind of a waste, but they look so nice. I save all the leftovers for kitbashing.

 

you can try making your own: http://tfmaster.com/articles_hands.php

I've heard using the left over twist ties work pretty well.

 

damn those pics there look rediculously complicated.

 

The one using all the little bits of styrene to make a MP styled hand is ridculous. I'm not one for trying that either... but the one with circular styrene rods, wire, beads and putty seems on the easier side of the spectrum.

 

i agree. that styrene one would make me say "fuck it, go buy a gundam kit" about 15 minutes into my attempt.

 

i found this


http://www.hlj.com/product/bcl2773
http://www.hlj.com/product/BCL2771


can anyone confirm how many hands in this set?

 

EVEN BETTER

http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljlist.cgi?x=0&y=0&Word=hdm&range=nameonly&SeriTxt1=&GenreCode=All&MacroType=All&Maker1=All&Scale=All&Skill1=0&Skill2=5&MinP=0&MaxP=999999&Scale=All&Sale=0&Dae=All&Dis=-2&Code=

i hope this helps u guys as much as me.. not sure how many in each of these sets and which are articulated and which are fixed poses

 

sweet. now i just need to figure out home many Yen i have in my paypal account  

 

How do the gundam scales translate to TF scales?

 

unfortunately all these hands made by b-club are fixed poses :S

 

thats sucky I want the 1/100 scale high/master grade semi posable hands

 

I purchased a set of of one of the blue packaging, they are really nice but none of them are articulated unless I was missing something on the Japanese instructions. Oh and almost all the boxes come with fists, open hand and gun holding hands so three sets.

 

Gundam 1/100 hands will replace binaltech & alternator, classics optimus prime hands nicely.

 

the articulated hands alone with shipping from japan
will probably cost half the whole gundam kit,
some japanese websites do sell parts of the kit,
but at a huge mark-up.
hands are hot in demand definitely.
you'd be better off buying the whole kit

the HLJ manipulators for 1/100 gundams
are a fantastic alternative.
I was thinking of those too.

 

whiwhc ones are good for deluxe sizes

 

Looking at my 1/100 scale Heavy Arms Gundam hands, they look significantly smaller than alt/BT hands. I'd say they're about the size of deluxes, maybe slightly bigger depending on the deluxe.

Looking at those prices, you can get a 1/100 Gundam kit for about the same price and you get 1 set of semi-articulated hands with the kit (the index finger is individually articulated and the 3 other smaller fingers articulate together and the thumb is stationary which is pretty much the same amount of articulation as Alt/BT hands). You do get 3 sets of hands if you buy one of the HLJ sets but they are not articulated.

 

The 1/100 heavy arms gundam is a HG model. It's considerably smaller when compared to the ungraded 1/100 gundam seed and gundam 00 models.

See here:

http://dalong.net/review/00/0102/0102_p.htm

I recommend the manipulators for gelgoog because they are larger than normal gundams. You can replace the fingers with wires and styrene rods.

http://dalong.net/review/mg/m82/p/m82_33.jpg

http://www.hlj.com/product/BCL2613

The best option is if somebody is willing to make and sell recasts of the MG gundam hands.