Kukin Flexible Joints of Mannequin arms and Hands (Male arm, Natural Wood Color)

This is similar to the drawing hand model I bought a while ago in the joints on the fingers and all it looks nearly identical only plastic. It goes all the way to what would be the shoulder and is positioned quite nice. It may be plastic but the good stuff, close to the 3D printer PLA strength. It's solid and can be modified for my use easily. It has a realistic movement all around even to the elbow and the proportions are pretty even running down the whole arm. Watch out if removing the wrist part as that has a spring in it that shouldn't launch out unless a malfunction or u are modifying it so wear some safety goggles and stuff to be safe. It was a good price but the shipping added up and took a while to get but I don't mind since it's really solid and came in good package and clean.

Although the engineering and construction of these is solid, there are several flaws with the design and execution. Firstly, the anatomy of this is too simplified. The thumbs are not opposable at all, so it's impossible for the hands to actually hold anything beyond very small items like pencils or paper. In addition to that, the fingers have zero spacing between each other, meaning when they are aligned they rub each other. When in the grip pose, this makes the hand look like the mannequin suffers from some sort of palsy. It's a very unnatural or pathological look. Secondly, the size of the men's arms is that of a very small, slender person, no taller than 5'10" at most. Will never work on a 6'2" mannequin like I was hoping to use it for. It seems more like a slightly scaled up woman's arm. The anatomy is very slender and dainty. Thirdly, the cost of shipping this item is double the actual item itself, which is problematic when you wish to return it like I do. Not only do you not get a refund for the return shipping, but you do not get refunded for the original shipping either, which means you end up spending 4x the cost of the item just to end up with nothing. Part of a scheme I think to discourage returns. I learned my lesson. I do not recommend even trying this because if you don't like it, you're stuck with it.

Although I had to do some minor modifications to get it to fit my mannequin it was well worth it, she now looks so much better with a full range of articulation