I'll start with the cleanup of excess material also known as flashing. Arrows indicate some flashing between the bushings of the finger rods.

Arrows indicate where excess flashing was removed. There are several 1/8" rotary tool bits available that will make this job a snap.

A little more excess flashing on another finger.

Here again, I utilized several 1/8" rotary tool bits to make this job a snap.

A 'before' shot of the wrist piece on the 'hand' side. I want to clean this area up a little and define the screw heads a little more.

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Another 'before' picture of the wrist piece on the 'arm' side. I will remove some of this excess material as well.

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First, I polished off the excess resin. Since there will be some rods and cables inserted through this section, I went ahead and drilled out all of the holes necessary to make an easy fit for these later. Notice a few remaining bubble marks and pits.

Bubble marks and pits filled in with contour putty. There are several types of filler avaiable. I've always preferred the mixture of super glue and talcum powder. I will let this harden and polish this off one more time.

Arrows indicate bubble pits in a knuckle.

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Once again, contour putty will take care of this. I'll let it harden and come back to it later.

Arrow indicates another minor bubble pit.

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Contour putty in place. Here again, I shall let this harden and come back to it later to polish it off.

Tip of the day :: lock down wrist piece so that you have both hands free to dress up screw head detail and other components on the palm.

Here, I had driven two 6 x 1 Drywall screws through existing holes on the palm into my workbench. There is a fluffy towel between the two surfaces to help minimize any stress on the part.

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Hard to get to seams between 'bones'. Simply use the shoeshine technique!

Here again, the mounting screws holding the piece to the bench comes in handy. Simply run the sandpaper sided to side to remove any remaining seam marks here.

After shot of wrist piece with a nice glassy surface. Here again, I used a special recipe of Super Glue and Talcum powder. It falls in the small pits, hardens quick, and polishes up nicely.

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After shot of knuckle pictured above. This will cover nicely.

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Another after shot, another knuckle...don't let the darker marks fool ya. It's pretty smooth and will cover nicely as well.

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Fingers in place.

Note :: I've numbered the tips of the fingers prior to attaching them. This helps to prevent a disastrous mix up when working with epoxy. One neat thing about the kit itself is that the knuckle ends of the hand are already numbered for you.

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