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Brand new indoor dying hot cast menthod lion dog statue with ball at entrance

This was dramatically scaled up to an intermediate 2.4m version. Then, with the aid of the foundry, an armature or frame is built. A team of people then work on it. Some 500kg of a wax-based clay is applied to slowly create the detail and character of the piece. A mould is then made from this. But the result is worth it. Dawn Patrol captures the essence of a young male lion in his prime, patrolling his territory with intent. “It has been an honour and a privilege to do a lion sculpture of this scale with Longleat as its home. The bronze sculpture will be on this earth for thousands of years. Let us all help ensure that lions will exist as long.” After a 10000km sea and road trip from Cape Town to Wiltshire, the three-tonne bronze gargantuan now loftily surveys the breathtakingly beautiful 436-year-old stately Longleat House, home to the fabulously wealthy and somewhat eccentric seventh Marquess of Bath, Alexander Thynn. Little has sculpted several larger than life-size pieces, but this one – which he calls Dawn Patrol – is by far his biggest sculpture.   It was certainly not something he could have imagined when, as a tiny child, his inspirational artist grandmother Constance Little first thrust a ball of plasticine into his hands and told him to “make something” with it. A magnificent bronze monumental lion sculpture standing almost 5m high in the