Talons are harder to make than I thought

So my idea for adding talons on to my fingers for my Wilder Mann costume didn't go according to plan.                                                     When I was adding the clay it was extremely difficult to reach around each finger as they were so close together. I got the idea then to do each finger separately. I got one of the thumbs from one of my broken casts and tried my idea on that. it worked so much better that I'm considering cutting my other cast so I can work on each finger separately.