"angel toledo" wrote in message
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: Hi,
:
: Christmas time is coming up and I'm alread thinking about
creating some
: sculptures to fill my front lawn. My plan is to create a wooden
frame
: onto which I can model my masterpiece. There's only one
problem: I've
: never done anything even remotely similar to this. My first
thought is
: modeling clay, but I don't know how it will hold out in the
rain.
: Plaster? Again, I don't know what the rain will do to it.
Cement? Too
: heavy. If anyone has any idea that can help me out I would
certainly
: appreciate it. Any direction to a website or other group would
also be
: helpful.
:
: Thank You

How about styrofoam? It's cheap at the lumber yard, very light
as a covering, reasonably easy to sculpt/saw but with some
caveats as it can make a mess. Never tried anything that large
though.