"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.

The buildings of the Chicago World's Fair circa 1893 were constructed from a
material called 'staff'.A mixture of plaster of paris, portland cement and
jute - which is like twine fiber.Build a strong armature, build up the
material and carve away. Should hold up until March or so in a snowy/rainy
clime.