A step-by-step visual guide to how the ancient Greeks made bronze statues. First a clay relatively featureless plug is made. The details are added in wax (and a thin wax coating is applied). Next, the wax and clay plug is covered in clay and the clay is fired. The wax melts out and bronze is injected in its place. The clay is then cracked and as much clas as can be removed is taken off, and a hollow bronze figurine remains.