[Sunny Thaper]

I am not Chris but I remember we had to make a hand too, we gave up later when we saw a nice one online, but we found it easier to model from the palm out using both mesh edit and patch model. I can't remember exactly what we did but what I would suggest is take a sphere and mash it into a pancake shape, then mesh edit the sides with soft select. Then convert it into an editable patch and do a similar method for each of the fingers. After you have modeled everything, attach and then weld the vertexes together.