Initially I carve a model out of wax. It is a miniature sculpture process. Whatever is created in the wax is exactly what I get in the first metal casting. Detailed designs take days or even weeks of tedious hand work to create the wax model. Each wax is cast using the lost wax casting method.

For a walk thru on the various stages of sculpting a model (H55 Feed My Sheep design) click on the first image, then move through the photos using the purple "next" arrow to view the larger photos sequentially with explanations of each step...