| 1. here we begin modelling in wax, using a magnifier | 2. the start.. the 4 legs of the dog | 3. slowly the skeleton and the proportions of the dog are being built | 4. the wax (sort of elastic candlewax) is made liquid by using a flame.. |
| 5. .. After that, kind of a 3 Dimensional drawing can be made, bit by bit it is being perfectionized, every detail and expression is 'drawn' into wax | 6. Once we have enough dogs made in wax, they will be sticked together on a 'tree' of wax all the seperate twigs are dogs! |
7. we cast plaster around the 'tree', and when this becomes hard, the wax is melted out of the plaster | |
| 8. Once the wax has disappeared (vaporized)we cast liquid silver into the plaster | 9. So now there is a silver tree in the plaster instead of a tree of wax | 10. To get the silver tree out of the plaster the still (very) hot tree has to be cooled off in cold water. | 11.Because of the immense heat, the plaster boils into gas bubbles off the hot metal. |
| 12. after that, what is left is a tree of silver: the wax and plaster is lost | 13. the seperate twigs will be cut off and… the dog is pure silver ! | 14. from wax.. to silver | 15. Now it is time to finish the still very rough silver. By filing and polishing the silver it starts to shine... |
| 16. It has become a juwel!, a perfect miniature copy of the breed, with all its details... | |||