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Well-made and attractive. I'm sure there are many other uses for these hands, such as displaying jewelry. However, for an artist seeking to recreate the movement of the hand, they blow. The fingers move in the most vertical and mechanical motion imaginable. There is no lateral or rotational quality that exists in real fingers. I think that might require a ball socket to achieve such an effect in a hand model. Do you have a suggestion for a better hand model? Leave a comment and let me know. Thanks!

😃 It's something that I was looking for. Although its been a while since I've practiced art, and hands known to be very difficult to draw, these hands serve more purpose than just art.They are light and feel like they can break easily. They can break easily with too much force but mine are still intact. The joints on the fingers move just like a real hand all but the knuckles. No side movement there unfortunately. The wrists can move too rather limited there but do maintain a pose. Good simple craftsmanship they can certainly be better but im not complaining at all.Good for drawing, scketching anime probably better use there. Or If you like to get ideas also if you're like me. For the price too well worth it.

These are great for the price, but from a design point of view there's a major issue. The joints didn't ship very tight and quickly loosen up which usually wouldn't be a problem, but the fingers were glued into the palm with the tightening screws facing inside meaning there's no way to get a screwdriver in there. I posed them about 10 or so times before they just stopped holding. To fix it I wound up snapping off the index fingers, drilling out the glued sections, and 3d printing a replacement joint for the base of the fingers with the adjustment screws facing the right direction.

The size of the hands and quantity for the price were pretty good. The range of motion was poor for things like the thumb joint and okay for the fingers. The wrist was the most realistic. The proportions of the hands seemed a bit off but only compared to my own hands which aren't unusual but a bit more stout and short than others'. Would have been nice but I was painting them for a project and as I picked one up a finger completely popped off near one join and had to be glued/wedged back into place. For that, while I think it is a nice value, the quality probably varies between hands and as a drawing reference it is alright but the overly stiff joints and lack of ability to move much limit its' potential for more detailed poses.

I purchased several of these to spell out "social work" in sign language out the office. Unfortunately I was unable to form several letters of the alphabet due to poor thumb mobility or expansion of fingers for my project. In efforts to return product, I am experiencing poor communication and feedback. Not good!!!