nice kelly.

the guide above is great, that pretty much covers it all, i only have a couple of little things you could also try...

mixing poster paint into the latex for colour generally works fine, but i'd keep it to small quantities, as too much seems to weaken the rubber, but essentially all it's adding is water, which is what thickeners add also... latex thats thickened just has more water in it and will need to take a wee bit longer to cure. least thats what some expert guy told me.

as an alternative to the syringe method, you can grab an old-school mophead with nice fat cotton rolls and chop the rolls into lengths... either soak the lengths in latex and then apply to the glove or... a better way i think is put a thin layer of latex on the areas you want to pad, then while its still wet or sticky press your cotton length on in your desired pattern. then add layers over the top of the cotton and it makes a latex tube with cotton in the middle. very easy to make webbing patterns etc similar to if you were using the syringe method. you can double up to make it nice and padded but it stays light and flexy.

makes very effective padding and can be done quite quickly if your in a rush.

i end up using a combination of techniques... i do a couple of early layers as kelly outlines for shape, then add some cotton mop-string padding on the knuckles, upper fingers and thumb for heavy padding, and use sparing padding on the back of the hand or syringe padding there as its lighter. i just use a few bits of crepe bandage on the lower fingers papier mache style to get some tough but thinner padding there.... or if i'm feeling really tricky i stick the crepe bandage to the lower fingers with latex but leave the outside unlatexed, and then later put a layer of silicone on, mushing it into the crepe to anchor it, as i find silicone a wee bit faster on the tiles and the lower fingers are where my glove contacts the tiles most. it seems to work, well enough for me to have done it more than once despite the extra effort.

those fingers only just last a worlds though!

liam