What Is Wax Carving?

Wax sculpture is an emerging wax-plastic art. It uses solid wax and glass fiber reinforced plastic as internal support, and expresses shapes and objects in an artistic way.

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Wax sculpture is an emerging wax-plastic art. It uses solid wax and glass fiber reinforced plastic as internal support, and expresses shapes and objects in an artistic way.

Chinese name

Wax carving

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Carving model, film inversion, demoulding

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Wax art

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FRP as inner brace

Production process: The wax sculpture is made through three procedures: sculpting model, pouring film and demoulding. Sculpting models can use clay as the material. The technique of sculpting is not simple and requires artistic cultivation. Beginners should choose simpler models, study with patience, and achieve their own achievements. The clay sculpture model is a solid three-dimensional model. ^{[1] The} hollow inwardly concave model must be poured out with gypsum to make wax figures. If you don't have experience with the mold, you can also customize it to a company that designs the model. If the posture is complicated, it should be implemented in sections when the mold is inverted. For example, the head makes a mold, the body also makes a mold, and the hands and feet make another mold to make it easier to remove the mold. If it is a large-scale wax sculpture, it is necessary to divide a part into several molds, and connect these molds to form a mold of a certain part.

After the gypsum is molded, the prepared mineral wax is poured into the gypsum mold, and glass fiber reinforced plastic is used as the inner support. The wax carving does not need to be solid, as long as the outer shell can save material, so when filling the raw materials, the mold needs to be rotated up, down, left and right to make the mineral wax evenly distributed. After the raw material of the wax carving is solidified, it should be demolded by immersing it in water for a while, and then it will leave the plaster mold naturally. The complex mold is divided into several parts, so these parts are finally bonded with adhesive glue.

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