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How much does it cost to make a real wax figure 20cm high?

The main material for making wax figures is beeswax, and each wax figure costs nearly 6,543.8+0,000 yuan, and it usually takes 3-6 months from the preliminary preparation to the final sample. But there are new materials. As early as 100 years ago, some China people living in Europe introduced wax art to China in the form of travel notes, and it was not until 1980s that it was introduced to China from abroad again. World-class wax figure masters call it three-dimensional photography of surrealist sculpture art. In order to make the shape and expression of each wax figure "resemble" a real person, wax figure sculptors begin to collect image data of characters, including their physical characteristics, living habits and familiar gestures. Later, he entered the clay sculpture creation, which was professionally called clay draft. Sculpture clay draft is the means of wax modeling and the basis of image modeling. After the clay manuscript is completed, plaster is used as the mold embryo, and then the wax film is poured. The raw material for making wax figures is natural wax, which is refined by solvent dewaxing and deoiling. Heat the wax figure, add appropriate amount of honey and pigment, and finally pour the prepared wax into the gypsum mold. After the wax cools, peel off the shell to form the wax prototype. Wax figures are more demanding than any other art form, and makeup is necessary to truly imitate real people. Then a vivid wax figure was born by planting eyebrows, growing beards, doing hair and dressing. Wax figure is an art of simulation, and its greatest feature is realism. It is this vivid effect that attracts people to appreciate, identify and appreciate the appearance, spirit and elegance of wax figures. This kind of artistic effect, which confuses the real with the fake, makes the wax figure gain irreplaceable existence value. Making wax figures for celebrities has been expanded and affirmed. When people are in close contact with these "celebrities", do you know that the lifelike wax figure trunk is "built" by epoxy glass fiber? Making wax figures is a very complicated job. To make them lifelike, lifelike, every step of the production should be perfect. After the measurement, the artists will take these precious data back to the wax 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 squeeze out the head of "Liu Xiang" with mud, and then paint it with plaster to make a mold for the head. As long as the hot wax is poured into the plaster mold, and the plaster mold is taken out after cooling, the prototype of the wax figure head is finalized, and the hands and feet can also be made. The initial production of trunk needs the support of metal skeleton, and epoxy glass fiber is used instead of mesh, which is light, strong, corrosion-resistant and non-deformable, and is very suitable for supporting wax trunk of human body. In fact, in wax figures, excellent epoxy materials are not only used for the "trunk", but also for the details of the head. According to experts from China Epoxy Resin Industry Association, after the skull prototype is completed, it will enter a complicated processing procedure-making and coloring eyes, hair and skin, which is a very detailed work. The eyeball is made of a glassy resin-acrylic resin. It has epoxy group and has the dual advantages of epoxy resin and unsaturated resin, and is often used in heavy-duty anticorrosion occasions. On the wax figure of "celebrity", the eyes will be 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.