How much does it cost to make a wax figure?

The main material for making wax figures is beeswax. Each wax figure costs nearly RMB 1 million, and it usually takes 3-6 months from the preliminary preparation to the final sample.

but there are new materials.

As early as more than 1 years ago, some Chinese who lived in Europe introduced wax art to China in the form of travel notes, and it was not until 198s that it was introduced to China again from abroad.

World-class wax masters call it a hyperrealism sculpture art of stereoscopic photography. In order to make the shape and expression of each wax figure "resemble" the real person, wax sculptors began to collect image data of characters, including their physical characteristics, living habits and familiar gestures. Later, he entered the creation of mud sculpture, which is professionally called mud draft. Sculpture clay manuscript is the means of wax modeling and the basis of image modeling. After the mud manuscript is completed, gypsum is used as the mold embryo, and then the wax film is poured. The raw materials for making wax figures are made of natural wax as the main component and refined by solvent dewaxing and deoiling. Heat the wax figure, add a proper amount of honey and pigment into it, and finally pour the prepared wax into the plaster mold, and peel off the shell after the wax cools, thus forming the wax figure prototype. Wax figures are more demanding than any other art form, and makeup is necessary to truly resemble real people. Then plant eyebrows, grow beards, do hair and dress them, and a lifelike wax figure is born. Wax figure is the art of simulation, and its most important feature is realism. It is this lifelike effect that attracts people to appreciate, identify and appreciate the appearance, spirit and elegant demeanor of wax figures. This artistic effect of confusing the false with the real, like the real and unreal, makes wax figures gain irreplaceable existence value.

Making wax figures for celebrities has been expanding and affirmed. When people are in close contact with these "celebrities", do you know that the lifelike wax figures are "erected" by epoxy glass fiber?

Making wax figures is a very complicated job. To make wax figures lifelike and lifelike, we must improve every step of making them. After the measurement, the artists will take these precious data back to the wax figure workshop of the London Pavilion, and only there can another "celebrity" be created. According to the recorded data and the photos taken, the sculptor will first pinch out the head of "Liu Xiang" with clay, and then apply plaster to make the mold of the head. As long as hot wax is poured into the plaster mold, and the plaster mold is removed after cooling, the prototype of the head of the wax figure is finalized, and hands and feet can be made in the same way. The initial production of the trunk needs the support of the metal skeleton, and the mesh is replaced by epoxy glass fiber, which is light, strong, corrosion-resistant and non-deformable, so it is very suitable to support the wax figure trunk of the human body.

In fact, excellent epoxy materials are not only used for the "trunk" of wax figures, but also for the detailed treatment of the head. According to experts from China Epoxy Resin Industry Association, after the prototype of the skull is made, it will enter a complicated processing procedure-making and coloring eyes, hair and skin, which is a very meticulous work. Eyeballs are made of a glassy resin-acrylic resin. It has epoxy group, dual advantages of epoxy resin and unsaturated resin, and is often used in heavy-duty anticorrosion occasions. On the wax figure of "celebrity", it will make the eyes look bright and suitable for painting. Because the radial lines in the pupil are all hand-painted in watercolor, even so subtle that even the microfilament blood vessels in the whites of the eyes should be made of red silk.